Awards
- Computer Science Teaching Award for Excellence in teaching, April 2024
- Co-authored (with my PhD students AbdulWahab Kabani and Monagi Alkinani) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2016 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'16), 2016
- Co-authored (with my PhD student AbdulWahab Kabani) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2015 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'15), 2015
- Co-authored (with my PhD student AbdulWahab Kabani) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2014 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'14), 2014
- Co-authored (with my MSc student AbdulWahab Kabani) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2013 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'13), 2013
- Co-authored (with my MSc. student Ishtiaque Hossain) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2011 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'11), 2011
- One of my compression scheme (GS-2D-LZ) has been included in the well-known David Salomon's Handbook of Data Compression book, Springer, pp. 582- 587, 2009
- Received the best paper award at the 6th ACS/ IEEE international Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA' 2008, April 2008
- Co-authored (with my PhD student Ali Hamou) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2006 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'06), 2006
- Co-authored (with my PhD student Amr Abdel-Dayen) the award winning research in the student contest (oral presentation) at the 2006 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'06), 2006
- Co-authored (with my PhD student Ali Hamou) the award winning research in the student contest at the 2005 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'05), March 2005
- Nominated by the Computer Science Department to receive the "Faculty of Science Award of Excellence for Undergraduate Teaching", May 2004
- Co-authored (with my PhD student Abdelkader Ouda) the award winning research in the student contest at the 2004 University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science conference (UWORCS'04), March 2004
- Nominated by the Computer Science Department to receive the "Marilyn Robinson Teaching Award", January 2003
- Co-authored the award winner paper in the student paper contest at the IEEE 2000 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'2000), May 2000 (picture)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Canada, 1995-1996 University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, Canada, 1995-1996
- Faculty of Engineering Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1994-1995
- International Student Fee Waiver Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1992-1994
- Best Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Alexandria University, 1988-1989
- Best Overall B.Sc. Graduate Award, Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers, Cairo, Egypt, 1985
- Placed on The Honor List of Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1985
- Best Student Award, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1980-1985