Osama Alshaykh
Civic Tech Fellow
Osama Alshaykh is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He is founder of collaborate.center (Knowledge collaboration platform) used in telecommunications and construction (TalonView) and healthcare (CEO of nxtec and CTO and board member of Talon). Osama served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on CSVT and an area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication, Theory, Techniques & Applications Journal. Osama was part of the founding team of PacketVideo Corporation and was its CTO. He served as a research scientist in Rockwell Science Center and Visiting Researcher at University of California Berkley. He has served on technology and development boards including AT&T, Verizon, Android, Euclid, Talon and LogicBlox. Osama received the BU ECE Award of Excellence in Teaching, 2015, the BU ECE Best Class Award, 2016 and Fulbright Scholarship, 1991.