Academics

Mohammed Nafie received his B.Sc. degree with honors from Cairo University in 1991; the M.Sc. degree with Distinction from King’s College, the University of London in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1999 where his research interests were in the area of low complexity detection algorithms.
After his graduation, he joined the Wireless Communications lab of the DSPS Research and Development Center of Texas Instruments. He was a primary contributor to TI’s effort in the IEEE wireless personal area networks standardization process. In 2002, Dr. Nafie co-founded SySDSoft, a company specializing in the design of wireless digital communication systems. He was the Chief Technology Officer of SySDSoft till December 2006. Dr. Nafie has been a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, since 2013. Dr. Nafie was an Associate Professor at the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center of Nile University, for which he was a director from August 2009 to August 2012.
His research interests are in the area of wireless and wireline digital communications and digital signal processing and include equalization, LDPC coding, MIMO, relaying systems, and caching among others. Dr. Nafie has published numerous Journal and Conference papers and has nineteen issued US patents as well as few others pending. He has several patents in Europe and Japan as well.

Prof. Ismail is a professor of Environmental Planning and Design. He is a Fulbright scholar with a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, the USA in 1998 and holds two Masters, one from UCL in 1991 and the other from OSU. He is a certified planner of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He earned his bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from Cairo University.

Prof. Ismail served twice as the Architecture Department Chairperson at the Faculty of Engineering at Fayoum University. He taught at the CAAD (College of Architecture, Arts and Design) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and the College of Environmental Design at King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah). He traveled around the globe and was awarded several post-doctoral scholarships including DAAD Deutsche Academic Exchange Junior Scientist Grant (in Koln, Germany), the Erasmus Mundus EU Fellowship in ITC (Holland), and the Chinese Government Scientist Award in (Wuhan, China). He served as the Program Director of the School of Business at Nile University. His research is in Urban Development, Innovation in Architecture Education, and GIS. He is the founder of the Architects Got Talent which was taught at MSA/Greenwich, MUST, and Cairo University. His practice covers consulting a wide range of planning projects in local private and international planning projects including for the UNDP, UNEP, Swiss Development Fund, and World Bank as well as the General Organization for Physical Planning, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Irrigation, and the Arab League.

He has published over 45 papers in international journals and conferences. His philosophy of teaching that guided his career is “involve me and I understand”.

Dr. El-Sherif received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2009. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Qatar University, Qatar, for two years. Between Sept. 2015 and Sept. 2021, he was the ECE program director at Nile University, Egypt. He was also the director of the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), Nile University, Egypt between Sept. 2017 and Sept. 2019. He also holds the position of Professor at the Electrical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt.
Dr. El-Sherif is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has served on the technical program committees of major IEEE conferences. He is the recipient of the State Incentive Award in Engineering Sciences in 2015, and the Medal of Excellence in 2017 from the Egyptian government. His research interests lie in the broad area of design and performance analysis of wireless networks with emphasis on cognitive radios and networks, cooperative communications and networking, cross-layer design, MAC, scheduling and resource allocation, as well as the applications of machine learning in communication networks.

Dr. Mariam Wifi holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design from the University of Montreal, QC, Canada. She earned her M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Architecture from Cairo University, Egypt. She has over 18 years of academic, research, and professional experience in the field of building design.

Dr. Wifi is an active Educator Member of the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO), and a former member in Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC), Alberta Chapter, ‘Research Group on Work Environments’, ‘Research Group on Illumination & Design’, and ‘SHAPE – COLOR – LIGHT Laboratory’, at University of Montreal, QC, Canada. She is also an annual reviewer in the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). Dr. Wifi has led several positions including accreditation coordinator, head of the standard, head of construction module, member of quality assurance committee, and curriculum committee in Educational Institutions and Universities in Canada and the Middle East.

Her research interests are focused on user-centered approaches to design, understanding human needs, behavior, and perception, and how building design may impact users’ Quality of Life (QoL). Dr. Wifi has great research experience in the assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Humane and Sustainable Workspaces, and Quality of Life (QoL). She has several publications including being a co-author in “The Effect of Workplace Design on Quality of Life at Work”, in the “Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research”.

She has several teaching experiences including Yorkville University in ON, Canada, School of Design in Fanshawe College in ON, Canada, the IAU University in Dammam, KSA, and the American University in Cairo (AUC).

Dr. Wifi is highly committed to students’ critical thinking and engagement in classroom discussions, collaboration with community business partners, and experiential education opportunities. Her hobbies are walking, drawing, painting, handmade crafts, and jewelry design.

Dr. Amr Saleh obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and his MSc in engineering physics ad BSc in electronics engineering both from Cairo University, Egypt. Between 2016 and 2020, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University and the research director of the Microbial Culture Shift Project – a multidisciplinary project that aims to develop a new platform for rapid point-of-care bacterial infection diagnostics.

Dr. Saleh’s research experience spans light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, bioprinting, deep learning for photonics applications and electronics and optoelectronics devices. One of his main goals is to transfer his academic research contributions into viable products with the main focus on advanced biological imaging and healthcare applications. He holds several approved and pending patents on plasmonic optical tweezers, bacterial diagnostics, and combined Raman and electron microscopy. For his work, he has been recognized with several awards, including the Falling Walls young innovators US award. He also holds a certificate in entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate school of business.

Dr Ahmed received his Ph.D. in Transversal Studies in Architecture & Urbanism  from the Polytechnical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid -UPM), Spain. His MSc is in “Intervention in the City, (Máster Universitario en Proyecto Avanzado de Arquitectura y Ciudad (MUPAAC)), School of Architecture University of Alcalá (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH), Alcalá de Henares. His B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering with a Pre-Masters, major in Architecture and Urban Design in July 2015, from Faculty of Engineering, German University in Cairo.

He has worked with various reputable multinational firms where he has worked on several projects that span multiple disciplines. He has worked on many projects in several countries in the Middle East and in Europe serving both the public sector and the private sector. He has received honorable mention in the global competition of the Salón De Reinos Extension of The Prado Museum by Nieto Sobejano in 2016.

Ahmed’s main research interests lie in the field of sustainability ranging from theory to design to application. Ahmed mainly works on the problems associated with climate change and both sustainable architecture and sustainable planning. His research is multi-disciplinary where he works across integrating renewable energy sources into buildings, thermal performance, wind effects, lighting, innovative structural materials, indoor environmental quality, adaptable structures, and structural systems and construction.”

Dr. Aboudina received her BSc in Electrical and Communication Engineering and MSc in Mathematical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2016. Dr. Aboudina received several prestigious international awards, including the Cannaught award, the FORTRAN scholarship, the (HCAT) Heavy Construction Association of Toronto Graduate Scholarship in Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the TAC Foundation Scholarship. Her main teaching and research interests are in the fields of engineering mathematics, transportation economics, operations research, optimization techniques and their applications to engineering systems, and machine learning.

Coming from an electronics engineering background, Mariam conducted her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, with a focus on Mathematics Education. She holds two Masters degrees, one of which she conducted at Cambridge University and the other at the American University in Cairo. The former was in the field of Industrial Systems Manufacturing and Management while the latter was in Comparative Education, with a particular focus on STEM subjects.

As an instructor, she is certified by the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) and has been heavily involved with the School of Continuing Education at the American University in Cairo. As a researcher, she is a member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and an active member and publisher at the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM). She is a fellow at the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and she has authored and peer-reviewed publications, presented at the International Group for Psychology in Mathematics Education (PME), the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME), and the European Society for Mathematics Education (CERME), along with other teacher journals. In collaboration with Cambridge University Press, she has been involved in publishing the Learning Passport, a UNICEF project for supporting refugees. As a participant in the High Levels Futures Literacy Summit, she has been involved in authoring the Egyptian Youth Future Rethink Roadmap 2050 in collaboration with the United Nations and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.  Throughout her involvement with the University of Cambridge, she has been an active participant in the Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG) at the Faculty of Education and a presenter at Newnham College.

Eng. Esraa Elareef, is a building engineer that has research in building envelope design, artificial lighting, and materials performance. Esraa has a strong professional education with a Master’s degree focused on Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology – buildings performance and facade engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2019.

Yet, her master’s study-oriented in investigating the optical properties of interiors and their effect on the circadian rhythm in human beings as well as energy consumption in terms of lighting. Her bachelor was a double degree in architectural engineering from MSA University, Egypt, and the University of Greenwich, England with the first honorary degree. Besides the professional experience in the consolidation construction management industry throughout various internships and full-based work in Italy and Egypt. She worked as a former architect in Gebhard and Gandds studio and DC studio in Milano.

She was the lead director of the Egyptian team in a landscape-based workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2017. Also, she was a guest lecturer at Ain shams university, 2020. Nevertheless, she won the first award for a food Hub renovation design.

Ms. Dina has a master’s degree in environmental architecture and doing her Ph.D. in the same major at Cairo University (Energy Consumption).  She also has Interior Design Diploma/ Career Gates

She is an experienced 3D Modelling/ Rhinoceros + Grasshopper, Autodesk 3D Max/post-production Photoshop, Production/ Laser Machine, CNC Router, 3D Printing. She ranked 2^nd in the Parametric Design + Environmental and Structural Simulation Workshop & Fabrication Modular Application Competition / Waterloo / Rome, Italy. She also ranked 1^st in the Pavilion Fabrication Methods of Architecture Workshop + Competition / IAAC / Catalonia, Spain.

Her philosophy entails design as eco-friendly incorporating the intimacy of natural elements with architecture. She believes that great design is the result of collaborative work combined with passionate, innovative, and sensitive values that transforms a place or object into a unique solution that responds to human needs. Her goal is to help better shape the built environment through the creation of biophilic functional architecture, the communication of good ideas, and the development of sensible policy.

Ms. Aya has finished pre-masters of science in Architectural studies at Cairo University in 2020 in the field of using music as an innovative design approach for enhancing a creative architectural educational space. She graduated with honors as the top rank of the class of 2018 with a B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from MUST University. Her graduation project was selected as one of the world’s best graduation projects representing Egypt in the ArchiPrix International Architectural Competition Chile 2019. She has three years of experience in academia as a teaching assistant at MUST and Nile University. She was granted the ACCESS scholarship program for a two-year full study at AUC, became involved as an active board member in many community service activities and NGOs such as iEARN, ENACTUS, E-Youth, and ASAP. Her fields of interest are Architectural musicology, innovative Architectural Design, Architectural History, and theories.

Aya Elshahed received a bachelor’s degree in electrical and communications engineering from Cairo University. She has completed the pre-masters courses in Mathematical Engineering from Cairo University. Her research interests lie in the field of artificial intelligence and anomaly detection. She has been a teaching assistant at MSA and Nile University for 7 years.

Eng. Khaled M.Naguib has done research in telecommunication technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Khaled is MSc holder in the field of cellular networks and their impact on devices communication by using caching techniques. He has researches published in international journals and conferences. He is doing his Ph.D. in the field of IoT and AI integrated with 6G cellular technology.

He is experienced in mathematics, physics, communication networks, mobile communication, Matlab, C/C++, VHDL, AutoCAD, machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence, python, cloud services, and IoT technology. He was certified as AI, and IoT instructor from IBM, and AI, and 5G instructor from Huawei. He was awarded the best instructor (1st award) from Huawei in 2020. Also, he has achieved the award of excellence (From MSA): appreciation award “Grand Prize”. He was a part of the initiative in cooperation between the Ministry of Communications and IBM in 2021.

Yet, he has been an assistant lecturer in MSA for 8 years, technical support in TEData for 1 year and control engineer for 1 year, technical training leader for 7 years.

Ahmed Alaa Aziz received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (Power and Electrical Machines division) from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2016. He has completed the pre-masters courses in Electrical Engineering (Power and Automatic control division), from the school of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt.
His research interests’ power electronic converters, renewable energy, power quality, and electric machines.
He successfully published two Research papers at the reputable IEEE Access journal (2020) and MDPI’s Energies journal (2021).
He is an experienced Teaching Assistant with a demonstrated history of working in higher education institutes; he worked as a full-time teaching assistant at The High Institute of Engineering & Technology King Marriot – Alexandria from 2017 till 2019, also worked as a full-time teaching assistant at the National Egyptian E-Learning University from 2020 till 2021, furthermore, he worked as a part-time teaching assistant for one semester at the College of Maritime Transport & Technology (AASTMT) (Alexandria Campus).
In addition to his extensive teaching experience, he has a strong background in the technical field as he worked as an electrical engineer for nearly two years at Alexandria Electrical Distribution company.
Throughout the years he took a lot of technical courses at very prestigious institutes as the Italian Don Bosco Institute, Swinburne University of technology; mainly in the fields of electronics, control, and Photovoltaic energy.