Ahmed Hassan Yousef (Candidate for Section Chair, Egypt)

Nomination for IEEE, Egypt section, Chair Position

Short Bio

Ahmed Hassan Yousef (SM'11) received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He is currently the dean of Information Technology and Computer Science school, Nile University on a leave from his position as a professor at the Department of Computers and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He was the director of the Electronic and Knowledge Services Center, Supreme Council of Universities from 2014 - 2018. He was with the information and communication technology project (ICTP), Ministry of Higher Education during the interval 2008- 2014 as the managing director after being the deputy director. He was the Founder and the managing Director of TOP IT Company from 2000 -2008, working with several Multi-national projects. He has published more than 60 papers in international conferences and journals. His research interest includes software engineering, parallel algorithms and data mining. Dr. Hassan is actively serving as a reviewer in several journal and conference publications including IEEE conferences. He severed as an editor to Ain Shams Engineering journal and as a technical program committee member and chaired several conference sessions over the years.

IEEE Experience

Ahmed Hassan Yousef was the IEEE, Egypt section vice chair for chapter operation from 2016 to 2019. In addition, He initiated and managed the elections of several chapters and represented the section in Valencia Region 8 meeting. Moreover, he was the IEEE, Egypt section secretary for four years 2012-2015. At that time, his role was to guide the IEEE in good Governance practices. He supervised the keeping of records of meetings, activities, membership and any other records required by IEEE law. He participated with the treasurer in the preparation the Egyptian file of the “Best Section Award, 2014”. He presented also the section in the IEEE section Congress, Amsterdam, 2014. He participated as a speaker in a lot of IEEE events, managed by the Egyptian section, young professional or student branches. As a board member, he participated in the organization of the yearly EED.

Proposed Action Plan

The IEEE, Egypt section is one of the most vibrant sections of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the world. For over 25 years, Egypt section has facilitated and guided the development and innovation not only in Egypt but also in region 8. IEEE, Egypt section includes many activities in the active chapters such as conferences and technical meetings. However, there is a room for more growth in awards, educations, webinars, videos, distinguish lectures programs and other resources. In addition, I am willing to activate Egypt chapters through using the opportunities and advantages offered to the section members such as network with colleagues, develop activities for professional development, and share expertise through technical exchange. I would like to see Egypt section one of the winner sections within the coming years through developing various activities. I would like to make our section provides opportunities to practice, build, demonstrate, and develop members’ skills, especially for young professionals and students. I am intending to put myself and the elected executive team in demand within both the local section and region 8. I believe that Egyptian chapters can participate in regional activities with higher levels of management and via the international route to the technical committees.

My plans states on continuing to develop technical environment within the local chapters to serve the particular needs of local members through creating local meetings/workshop/conferences within Egypt. Also, the section would act with the chapter chairs and the industry officer to connect the professional activities between the industry and academia within the chapters. Moreover, the chapter chairs will be helped to invite several distinguished lecturers to enable worldwide recognized experts in different fields to visit Egypt in order to give talks which help us to promote IEEE and engineering at large in our country.

Last, I will be happy to nominate myself as a Chair for Egypt Section to serve the section members and develop more activities for all members.

My Memories in IEEE

The Celebration of the formation of the life members affinity group, Four Season Hotel, Cairo, 23 November 2019. With Victor Hanna, Samir Shaheen, Osman Lotfy, Seliman Debiky, Nevin Darwish, Mohamed Khairy, Ahmed Madian, Ahmed Khattab, Mohamed Amin, Mohamed Dallal, Ahmed Yousef, Amr Hesham and others