I am a PhD student University Rennes 1, France, IRISA lab. Working with ASAP research team on privacy preservation in user-centric systems.

I am also a staff member at the Computer Science department, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

Education:

• 2010-Present Ph.D. University Rennes 1, France. 
• 2009-2010 M.Sc. University Rennes 1, France, Networks and Distributed Computing, GPA 14.157/20, mention: Good, 9th on class of 50 students.
• 2003-2007 B.Sc. Helwan University, Egypt, Computer Science, GPA 3.72/4, mention: Excellent with Honors, top of class of ~200 students.

Teaching (teaching assistant):

• Spring 2009:
• Software Engineering I : UML.
• Software Engineering II : Web Applications and SQL Server.
• Operating Systems 2 : Distributed Computing and Synchronization.

Publications:

• 2011 "Private Similarity Computation in Distributed Systems: from Cryptography to Differential Privacy" Mohammad Alaggan, Sébastien Gambs and Anne-Marie Kermarrec, OPODIS'11, LNCS 7109, pp. 357 -- 377 (slides)
• 2010 M.Sc. Thesis "Privacy preservation in peer-to-peer gossiping networks in presence of a passive adversary"
• 2008 "MyP2PWorld: Highly Reproducible Application-level Emulation of P2P Systems" Roberto Roverso, Mohammed Al-Aggan, Amgad Naiem, Andreas Dahlström, Sameh El-Ansary, Mohammed El-Beltagy and Seif Haridi. Published at the Selfman Workshop.

Working experience:

2008-Present Staff at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
2007-2009 Research Assistant at Peerialism AB (Swedish company), Cairo branch.

Grants:

2010: Bourse Ministérielle from the French Ministry of Higher Education for 3 years to pursue PhD at University Rennes 1.
2009: Grant from Fondation Michel Metivier to pursue masters at University Rennes 1

Interests: 
1- Cryptographic and non-cryptographic secure multi-party computation protocols
2- Quantum protocols and quantum secure multi-party protocols
3- Differential privacy
4- Computational complexity and computability

URLs:
E-mail: malaggan (at) irisa (dot) fr
TCS Stack Exchange: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/201/m-alaggan
Blog: http://mohnabil.blogspot.com/
FCI-H Technical blog: http://fci-h.blogspot.com
IRISA: http://www.irisa.fr/asap/?page_id=912

Open source projects:
1- Arab OS research operating system. x86 Asm/C/C++. Before Alpha.
2- Parser generator A LALR(1) extensible parser generator, with minimized DFA generator for scanning. Release 1.0.
3- Meemory RDBMS relational database management system. C++. Before Alpha.
4- SRMI (Spontaneous) Java Remote Method Invocation automation library. Java. Well tested, Release 0.8 Beta.

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