I’m a final year PhD candidate at the Electrical Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University. Part of my PhD work is in collaboration with the Mathematics & Algorithms group at Bell Labs. I was also a Research Intern with the E2E Network and Service Automation (ENSA) group, where I worked in deep reinforcement learning for networking applications with Bilgehan Erman, Ejder Baştuğ and Bruce Cilli. I also interned with Osram Sylvania (Siemens Business), Beverly, MA, where I worked in optical wireless networking.
I received my M.Sc. degree in wireless technology in August 2014 from the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), Nile University, Egypt, where I worked in Cognitive Radio Networks with Prof. Karim G. Seddik, Dr. Fadel F. Digham, Prof. Mohamed Nafie, Dr. Amr El-Keyi and Prof. Zhu Han. My research was funded by the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA). Before that, I received my B.S. degree from Alexandria university in 2011, where I worked in the physical layer implementation of the LTE system with Prof. Essam Sourour.
Awards and Honors
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Nile University Graduate’s Fellowship, Cairo, Egypt, 2011- 2014
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The Pennsylvania State University’s Graduate Fellowship 2015- 2017
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Newport Research Excellence Award, July 2016
- Bell Labs Unix 50 Student Presentation Award, October 2019
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Professional Activities
- Talk titled “Scalable Routing with Deep Reinforcement Learning” presented at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, Unix 50 Event, October 2019.
- Talk titled “Fundamental Limits of Erasure-Coded Key-Value Stores with Side Information” presented at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, August 2018.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
- Presented a poster in the Algorithmic Coding Theory Workshop at ICERM, Brown University June 2016.
- Presented a poster at the IEEE Information Theory Summer School, Duke University, June 2016.