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I am currently a Radio Strategy & Design Technical Lead at Vodafone Egypt, as well as a part-time research scientist at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. Prior to joining Vodafone, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, from May 2018 to May 2019. Also, from Dec. 2016 to Apr. 2018, I was affiliated with Qatar University as a postdoctoral researcher. I received the Ph.D. degree from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in 2016, the M.Sc. degree in wireless communications from the School of Communication and Information Technology, Nile University, Egypt, in 2011, and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2009. I was recently privileged to receive, as a member of the winning team, the Vodacom CEO Innovation Award 2023, as well as a Vodafone Egypt Top Performer for the year 2022-2023. I co-authored around 20 conference and journal papers, in addition to a filed GB patent. My current research and development interests focus more on applied topics such as machine-learning-aided communication systems (like in Open Radio Access Networks), while I still consider some fundamental research directions including intelligent reflecting surfaces, multiple-antenna techniques, relay-aided communication, performance analysis and protocol design over fading channels, buffer-aided cooperation, and statistical signal processing for communications. I am a long-term IEEE member (S’06–M’15–SM’17), and volunteer since 2007, as a student, young professional, and later as the 2022-2023 IEEE Egypt Section Industry Ambassador. Currently, I am serving as a committee member of IEEE Region 8 Action for Industry. I am also a reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Communications Letters.

Recent News in 2025!

May 2025: My team won Vodacom Africa's 1st Place Growth Award in Hackfest 2025.
Apr. 2025: Visited back KAUST, my Ph.D. Alma Mater, and delivered an Alumnus Talk entitled "Machine Intelligence & Data Analytics Applications in Mobile Networks: Applied R&D Endeavors, Business Insights, and Career Highlights", hosted by my Ph.D. supervisor Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini.
Apr. 2025: Attended the 124th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting in Budapest, Hungary, as a member of the IEEE R8 Action for Industry Committee.
Mar. 2025: A paper has been accepted for publication at IEEE NetSoft'25 in Budapest, Hungary, coauthored with A. AlAlwani, A. Itman, A. Gaber, M. Zaki, K. Banawan, and K. Seddik, entitled “ML-Aided Traffic-Aware Base Station Sleep Threshold Design with User Throughput Guarantees”.
Mar. 2025: My team won the Vodafone Egypt's Hackfest 2025 Growth Award, qualifying for the group-level competition.
Feb. 2025: The first IEEE Sensors Summit was successfully organized by the IEEE Sensors Council Egypt at the German University in Cairo, hosting a distinguished set of talks covering state-of-the-art sensor innovations and applications in the telecom sector, automotive industry, agriculture, industrial automation, and governance, to only name a few.

Older News

Nov. 2024: An industry engagement workshop was successfully organized by the IEEE R8 Action for Industry subcommittee under the theme of "Connecting the Unconnected", hosted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Humanitarian Technology (IEEE IHTC'24) in Bari, Italy, hosting an enlightening Keynote Speech by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Distinguished Professor of Wireless Communications and holder of KAUST UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected, and with the participation of distinguished industry experts from TIM, Huawei, and IEEE.
May 2024: An industry engagement workshop, under the theme of "5G & Beyond Wireless Networks", was successfully hosted at the 2024 National Radio Sciences Conference (NRSC), with the participation of professors from Alexandria University, E-JUST, NTI, Nile University, and industry experts from Dell Technologies, Vodafone, Nokia, and ST Microelectronics.
Nov. 2023: A conference paper has been accepted for publication at NILES2023, entitled "Autonomous Traffic-Aware and QoS-Constrained Capacity Cell Shutdown for Green Mobile Networks" with M. Zaki, A. Gaber, M. Beshara, and N. Abdelbaki.
Oct. 2023: The team won the 2nd Place Innovation Award in the Vodacom CEO Awards Ceremony 2023, South Africa, in addition to a filed GB patent.
Aug. 2023: The "IEEE MENA Region Action for Industry Workshop" has been successfully organized by IEEE Industry Engagement Egypt, hosted at the Egyptian University of Informatics, with keynote speeches by IEEE President, Region 8 Director-Elect, Egypt Section Chair, global Industry Engagement and Region 8 Action for Industry Committee Chairs, and key regional IEEE and industry representatives.
Jun. 2023: An invited talk on "Open Radio Access Networks" has been successfully conducted as part of an industrial workshop at the 2023 40th National Radio Sciences Conference (NRSC2023), hosted at the AASTMT, Smart Village, Egypt. The workshop was organized by the recently inaugurated Egyptian Chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).
Apr. 2023: A new paper has been accepted for publication at VTC23-Spring Track T5 on Machine Learning and AI for Communications, entitled "Joint Beamforming and Metasurface Reflection: A Lightweight Design for Energy Efficiency via Deep Reinforcement Learning", and co-authored with Mina Yonan, Karim Banawan, and Karim Seddik.
Mar. 2023: An industry engagement workshop was successfully delivered at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility on "Smart Mobility in Open Radio Access Networks", jointly with industry experts from Vodafone, NTT DOCOMO, STC (GCC O-RAN Alliance), and Rimedo Labs, hosted by KAUST, and organized by IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS).
Dec. 2022: IEEE Industry Engagement activities were successfully organized at the 2022 IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT (IEEE GCAIOT'22), including panel and roundtable discussions on the topics of Digital Transformation in the Telecom Industry, AI and IoT technologies in Automotives, among others, with the participation of distinguished professors from the AUC, Alexandria Univ., NTI, BUE, and industry experts from Vodafone, Etisalat by e&, Brightskies, Quectel, Nokia, Eventum Solutions, and ISFP.

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