- Cofounder, Vice Chairman, and Managing Director of the Corporate Software House; RDI; www.RDI-eg.comsince 1993. Based in Giza-Egypt with offices in the Gulf Area (Riyadh-KSA, Abu Dhabi-UAE), this corporation specializes in Human Language Technologies (e.g. OCR, Advanced Digital Speech Applications, Arabic Natural Language Processing, …) and e-Learning.
- Cofounder (on behalf of RDI) of MGD; www.eMGD.comcompany based in KSA since 2001. This company is specialized in providing integrated e-Learning solutions.
- RDI representative in the e-Learning Committee of the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce.
- Cofounder, board member, member of the executive committee, and member of the quality committee of eLABs; www.eLABs.org.eg(on behalf of RDI) which is an association for the companies working in the field of e-Learning and Multimedia content gathering over 30 members.
- Member of the Egyptian Export Council for Information Technology (following the ministry of Foreign exports) since 2005 on behalf of the industry of e-Learning and e-Content. This council gathers 15 members representing the IT industry in Egypt.
- Cofounder of Information Dynamix; (IDX) company, Egypt, for advanced Internet & Telephony applications, 2000.
- Cofounder of Al-Rowad Software and Training company, 1988.
- IEEE member.
- Cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ALTEC (Arabic Language Technology Center), and elected as the Board of Trustees’ Chairman.
- Member of the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA); www.isca-speech.org.
- Member in the Egyptian Information, Telecommunications, Electronics, and Software Alliance (EITESAL); www.EITESAL.comon behalf of RDI.
- Member of the Egyptian Syndicate for Engineers.
- Board member (on behalf of the Egyptian Syndicate for Engineers) for Mohandis Information Systems company (MIS corporation) 1990-1995.
- RDI representative in the Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE); www.ESLE.org
- First prize in the 2007 World Summit Award contest http://www.wsis-award.orgfor best e-content (e-Learning track). This int’l prize has been awarded for RDI 's Hafss©technology for the interactive self-learning of spoken language applied on the Tajweed of the holy Qur’an.
- e-Content Award’s first prize http://www.econtentaward.org.eg/winners.htmlin the track of e-Learning from the Egyptian IT Industry Development Agency ITIDA, for RDI 's new technology for the self learning of spoken language applied on Tajweed; Hafss©; 2006. (based on more than 10 MSc. and PhD theses)
- The first 2006 prize of Suzan Mubarak 's Children Arts contest www.SMubarakPrize.gov.eg/index.htmin the professional enterprises track of Programming & Internet for its Flash®-based software tutorial on Arabic Syntax.
- e-Content certificate of honors http://www.econtentaward.org.eg/winners.htmlin the track of e-Learning from the Egyptian IT Industry Development Agency ITIDA, for RDI 's educational e-Learning library; 2006. (where 4 RDI technologies including Arabic Text-To-Speech have been deployed)
- e-Content Award’s second prize http://www.econtentaward.org.eg/winners.htmlin the track of e-Science from the Egyptian IT Industry Development Agency, for RDI 's Virtual Labs application; Aug. 2005.
- Best-of-GITEX (Gulf IT EXhibition) 1996; for the (by then) novel technology of CELP-based Speech Compression.
- Certificate of honors for being the top of my class in B.Sc. graduation year; 1977.
Professor of Communications,dept. of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.
- About 65 papers are published in international proceedings and conferences.
- 49 theses had been finished under my supervision: 16 PhD. ’s and 33 MSc.’s.
- 21 theses are being conducted under my supervision: 10 PhD. ’s and 11 MSc.’s.
- Many of my ex-post graduate (MSc. & PhD) students are currently recruited in the core of top world hi-tech companies and research centers like IBM-WRC, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft,…, etc.
- Over 350 graduation projects are realized under my supervision in the dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, in different applications such as the digital processing of Speech, Audio, Image, and Video, as well as Pattern Recognition and/or Classification, OCR, Document Analysis, Biometry, Software and Hardware design. Many prizes have been awarded to some of those projects.
- Since 1988, I have taught numerous courses for graduate as well as undergraduate student. Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Speech and Image Processing, Electronics, Electric Circuits, Microprocessors and Micro Controllers, DSP and DSP applications, …, are among these courses where hundreds of course projects are implemented under my supervision.
- I have led the Summer Training since 1988 in the dept. of Electronics & Electrical Communications. Thousands of students have been trained on both advanced s/w and/or h/w topics through this training. Many of these students come from the outside the dept.
