Ahmed Khattab is a Professor in the Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department at Cairo University that he joined in 2012 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Khattab is the recipient of Egypt State First Class Medallion of Excellence in 2019, Egypt State Encouragement Award for Engineering Sciences in 2017, and Cairo University Excellence Award in Advanced Technology Sciences in 2020. Dr. Khattab has been serving as the Rapporteur of the National Communications and IT Committee, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), since 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2011 under the direction of Prof. Magdy A. Bayoumi and co-advised by Prof. Dmitri Perkins. He received a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rice University in 2009. He also received M.Sc. and B.Sc. (honors) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2004 and 2002, respectively. Dr. Khattab in an IEEE Senior Member.

His current research interests are in the broad areas of wireless networking including, but not limited to, the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, cognitive radio networks, security and machine learning. The emphasis of his research is on the design, optimization, and implementation of high-performance schemes for such wireless networks. His prior research experience ranges from resource management and scheduling in 4G and beyond wireless networks, opportunistic spectrum management and multi-antenna IEEE 802.11 networks, to compressive sensing. Dr. Khattab has authored/co-authored 3 books, 4 book chapters, over 105 journal and conference publications, and a U.S. patent. A detailed publications list is available here.

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