I am a senior research scientist at Bloomberg AI. Prior to that, I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. At EPFL, I worked in the Distributed Computing Lab (DCL) under the supervision of Prof. Rachid Guerraoui. My research interests include distributed machine learning, communication efficiency, and fault tolerance. In particular, I am interested in building scalable and trustworthy distributed machine learning systems.
Prior to joining EPFL, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Alexandria University in Egypt in July 2014 and January 2017 respectively. I graduated with “Distinction with Honor”, and I ranked first in my class. Back then, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt under the supervision of Prof. Moustafa Youssef and Prof. Mustafa ElNainay.
Interests
- Machine Learning
- Distributed Systems
- Byzantine Resilience
- Communication
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017 - 2022
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2014 - 2017
Alexandria University
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2009 - 2014
Alexandria University
Publications
Experience
Senior Research Scientist
Bloomberg LP
Software Engineer
Meta
Research Intern
Bloomberg LP
Ph.D. Visiting Researcher
Huawei Technologies Research Center
Visiting Scholar
INRIA
Teaching Assistant
Alexandria Universiry
- Duties included shared responsibility for lectures, exams, homework assign-ments, grading, office hours and leading weekly computer lab exercises.
- Taught courses include (all for undergraduates) Introduction to Programming, Computer Networks, Operations Research, and Modern Control Systems.
Research Scientist
Alexandria Universiry
- Designed and implemented open-access testbed for Cognitive Radio Networks to be available for educational and research purposes. The work led to the CRC testbed.
- Designed and implemented new routing protocols for Cognitive Networks. The work led to numerous research papers in different conferences and journals.
Undergraduate Research Intern
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)
Undergraduate Research Intern
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)
Awards
- EDIC Ph.D. fellowship, EPFL, September 2017.
- University fund winner to attend IEEE ICNC, Alexandria University, October 2016.
- Runner-up for best teaching assistant award, Alexandria University, April 2016.
- Prof. Khalil award for ranking first on Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, August 2014.
- Best Graduation Project award, Alexandria University, July 2014.
- Graduation Project fund winner, Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Lab Cairo, December 2013.
Teaching
I have been a teaching assistant for the following EPFL courses:
Distributed algorithms (fall 2019, fall 2020, fall 2021)
Practice of object-oriented programming (spring 2019)
Analysis I (fall 2018)
Mathematics 1&2 (MAN) (spring 2018)
I have supervised 1 Ph.D. student, 1 M.Sc. thesis, 2 M.Sc. semester projects, and 2 interns at EPFL.
I have been a teaching assistant for the following Alexandria University courses:
Introduction to programming (fall 2014, fall 2015, fall 2016)
Computer Networks (fall 2014, fall 2015, fall 2016)
Operations Research (spring 2015, spring 2016, spring 2017)
I have supervised 3 interns at Alexandria University.
Service
- I serve in the Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB) for the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) (since February 2021).
I have been a reviewer for:
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) (since August 2020)
IEEE Systems Journal (since February 2019)
Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces (since January 2019)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) (since March 2017)
IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2017
IEEE Communications Letters (since November 2016)
I also helped in writing 4 fund proposals at EPFL.