Biography

Education

Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering   (Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2018)
      Advisor: Prof. Aylin Yener
      Thesis: Information theoretic security guarantees against more capable adversaries
    • M.A. in Mathematics      (Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2017)
      Advisor: Prof. Jan Reimann
      Master’s Paper: Information theoretic interpretation of Szemer´edi’s regularity lemma

Nile University, Cairo, Egypt

    • M.Sc. in Wireless Communications     (Oct. 2010 – Aug. 2012)
      Advisors: Profs. Karim Seddik, Mohammed Nafie, Hesham El Gamal
      Thesis: On the Z-interference channel: Diversity-multiplexing-delay tradeoff
Alexandria University, Egypt
    • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering      (Sep. 2005 – Jul. 2010)
      Ranked in the top 1.2% of the class
      Graduation project: Opportunistic multiple access in cognitive radios

Work experience

University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI           (Aug. 2020 – present)
    • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA        (Mar. 2019 – Jun. 2020)
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Penn State University, University Park, PA            (Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2018)
    • Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA           (Sep. 2017 – Dec. 2017)
    • Visiting Researcher, Information Systems Lab
Nile University, Giza, Egypt      (Oct. 2010 – Aug. 2012)
    • Graduate Research Assistant, Wireless Intelligent Networks Center

Awards and Honors

  • NSF 22-598 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award.
  • University of Detroit Mercy Professor Union Faculty Research Award
  • EE Dept. Nominee Engineering College’s Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, Penn State, 2017-2018.
  • Merit-based two-year departmental fellowship, Penn State, EE Dept., Fall 2012-Spring 2014.
  • Student travel awards: IEEE ICC 2012; IEEE ISIT 2015, 2016, 2017; NA School of Info.Theory 2016, 2017.
  • Certificate of Merit, First Class Honors, B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, 2005-2010.
  • Ranked in the top 1.5% of the class in cumulative grade for my undergrad studies, Class of 2010, Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University.

Student Awards

  • My masters students Mario Padilla Rodriguez and Ahlam Al Mohammad won 3rd place in the Detroit Urban Healthcare AI Challenge for their project proposal Fed-Health (Federated Health AI Models): The project explores the use of ​”Federated Learning” across healthcare silos (hospitals or health institutions) to train high-accuracy deep learning models (for diagnosing medical images, such as x-rays, CT scan,  dermoscopy images) with strong privacy guarantees; models are trained without the data ever leaving its local institutions/branches.
  • My students Samar Bayan and Mohammad Mokhaddar won 2nd place in Engineering and Science Research symposium at Detroit Mercy 2021, for their class project “Deep learning for intrusion detection in intra-vehicle networks”