[1] She served as an expert delegate of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Committee (Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information) and participated in JPEG/MPEG standardization activities.
She served as expert consultant in matters related to Intellectual Property (IP)/Patent Litigation, Image/Video Compression and Streaming, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Autonomous Driving.
She also developed theory and algorithms for the efficient design of multi-dimensional complex-valued FIR filters with arbitrary magnitude and phase responses.
Her seminal work on digital filtering has been widely adopted by engineers, scientists, and researchers for the development of improved applications and products in various signal processing, telecommunications, electromagnetic, and biomedical applications, including geophysical processing, magnetic resonance imaging, low-delay filtering, channel equalization, and antenna design, among others.
Dr. Karam’s digital filter design algorithm has been integrated in the MATLAB Signal Processing Toolbox (as the cfirpm function).
After receiving her PhD degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995, she joined Arizona State University where she became a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Program Chair and Director of the Computer Engineering Program, and the Director of the Image, Video, & Usability Laboratory.
She established iLEAP (industry-focused Lebanese Education & Academia Partnership) in collaboration with LebNET,[13] a non-profit US organization focused on education and mentoring, and comprising a network of technology experts, Fortune 500 managers and executives, venture capitalists and investors, startup founders and entrepreneurs, academics, consultants and small business owner in North America.