Dr. Mahmoud El-Sakka

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

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