Awards

  • Egyptian National Engineering Award, 1999.
  • Middle East Eminent Persons, Singapore 2007.
  • University of California, Davis, Life Time Achievement (Distinguished Alumni Medal for Public Service), 2017.

 

Scientific Societies

 

  • Chairman, IEEE Egypt Section (2011-2015), Member of the Award and Recognition Committee (ARC) Region 8 (2012-2015) and Member of the Ethics and Member Conduct Committee (2015).
  • Senior Member of IEEE (86-to date), the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society and the Communications Society.  Member of the IEEE executive committee for Egypt responsible for student membership development (1999-2004).
  • Member of the ACM (98-2004).
  • Member of the Inter-University Network (IUN), the Open Microsystems Initiative (OMI), the Technical Council on Software Engineering and IASTED technical committee on Robotics and Automation (88-94).
  • Member of the Arab League Committee for the translation of Computer terms and the Egyptian Computer Society, SIG on Computer Linguistics and Arabization (89-92).


Boards

 

·       Member of the Board of Advisors, School of Business, and School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo.

·       Member of the Board of Directors, International School of Information Science ISIS, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

·       Member of Board of Trustees, Nile University, Badr University, New Giza University (under construction).

 

Journals and Conferences

 

  • Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation (90-94), Editorial Committee (95-2002).
  • Reviewer and referee for IEEE Computer (88-to date), Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (93-2002), International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks (97-2002), IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (99-2002), Scientific Bulletin, Cairo University (97-2004), Scientific Bulletin, Ain-Shams University (98-2004), Journal of the Faculty of Science, UAE (92-95), IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (91-93), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (89-91) and Journal of Optical Engineering (87-88).
  • Acted on the program committee, helped organize, chaired sessions and technical review for several conferences; among them: IEEE Midwest 2003, Cairo, ICM 2003, Cairo, ICIT 2003 (Theme: Ensuring security in IT Structures), Cairo, IEEE MELECON 2002, IEEE SBC2002, IEEE GOLD2002, GLOBCOMM, Sydney, Australia, 1998, International Conference on Intelligent Applications in Communications and Power Systems, April 1997, IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing, Oxford, England, Sept. 1993, ISMM International Conference on Applications of Mini & Micro Computers in Design, Simulation and Analysis, Las Vegas, Mar. 1991.

 

Graduate Supervision

 

·        - Ph.D.: 10 awarded the degrees.
- M.Sc.: 26 awarded the degrees.

 

Teaching

 

Taught a wide range of courses in Egypt (Cairo University, American University), USA (University of California, Davis, Virginia Tech) and United Arab Emirates (UAE University, Al-Ain).
A sample list includes:  Project Management, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Programming and Algorithms, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Microprocessor Based Systems I & II (HW / assembly language / interfacing / applications), Computer Architecture, Digital Logic Design I & II  (introductory and advanced) and Supervision of graduation projects in different fields.

 

Academic Development
 

o   Involved in the establishment of the joint degrees between Egyptian Universities and leading US and International Universities to be delivered via different mechanisms utilizing new communications and networking technology.

o   Shared in curricula and course development at several places.

o   Actively shared in the process of lab and network renovation at several universities.

o   Interested in the engineering student training issues.  Performed detailed study on problems, issues and recommendations.

o   Have particular interest in new technology tools to serve education:

o   Started a pilot project with Virginia Tech where I remotely supervised Masters student at VT while actually being in Cairo.  The project was successful and the student was awarded the degree in September 1998.

o   Actively participated in Work Group IV, Administrative Aspects, Euro-Egyptian Symposium on Distance Education by Satellite, April 1999,

o   Attended several workshops on lecturing and the educational process

§  Regional Workshop on New Approaches to Engineering Education, Al-Ain, UAE, 1995.

§  Enhanced Engineering Education Experience Workshop, 1994.  The workshop was held in cooperation between United Arab Emirates University and Drexel University, USA.  The workshop covered the Drexel and Arizona experiment in teaching Engineering in a non-traditional fashion and stress on the hands on activities from the very beginning.

§  Microteaching and how to prepare lectures, UAE University, 1992.

§  Preparation of University young Assist. Professors, Cairo University, 1989.

§  Voice and lecturing, University of California, Davis, 1988.  How to use different frequency bands to avoid fatigue, get attention of your audience and stress certain ideas.