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Ing. Nunzio Abbate, Director of Automation & Transportation Group at STMicroelectronics S.r.I., Dott. Carla Marino, ST Catania Site Manager, Dr. Salvatore Sessa, Visiting Associate Professor at E-JUST and Dr. Ahmed Ramada, Assistant Professor at E-JUST signed a non-disclosure agreement for their future cooperation.

Dr. Aboubakr Abdullah was an invited by Prof Salem Altheyab, Director of Petrochemical chair at KSU, and Dr. Attiah Al-ghamdi, Head of N ECP-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to give a talk about his research activity, and his contribution to the fuel cell project with KSU and KACST.
Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invited to give two lectures at University of Florida and Rice University

Dr. Mahmoud Bady is an invited speaker at the Montreal International Engineering Forum 2012 that takes place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 9-10, 2012. The forum is hosted by the EPS Inc., a Canada-based biomedical consultant agency. www.epsglobal.ca and www.epsworldlink.com.

Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy has been awarded the best paper (out of 48 papers) in the 2011 International Conference on Computer Engineering (ICCES'2011), Ain Shams University, Egypt. The paper title is "Fair and Adaptive Online Set-Based Cache Partitioning”. The conference is an IEEE conference, with paper acceptance rate of 40%.
Dr. Walid Gomaa received an invitation for one month at the Mathematics Department in International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste Italy http://www.ictp.it . ICTP will cover all his travel and living expenses.

Prof. Yehia Elmahgary had the presentation “Applying Solar Absorption AC in Arab Countries at the Conference organized by the Arab Academy of Sciences (AAS), on "Water & Energy in Sustainable Food Security", Beirut, December 2011.
Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is an invited speaker at the “Rice straw to Business” Seminar, December 12, 2011 at Marriott Hotel, Zamalek, Cairo. His presentation is entitled “Energy Production from Pre-Treated Rice Straw via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor”.

On December 17, 2011, Dr. Amr Eltawil provided the presentation “Container Yard Planning Decisions” at the “Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport”. Prof. El-Sharkawy, Dr. Nermine Harraz Dr. Walid Gomaa represented E-JUST at this meeting. The presentation was attended by over 50 professionals from the three public container companies in Alexandria, Damietta and Port Said. Special thanks to Prof. Said Gharraf –Vice Chairman of the Holding company- for arranging and hosting this seminar.
The group will be providing separate seminars in the three holding companies in pursue of joint research projects with the companies in the field of container yard terminals management and planning.
Prof. El-Sharkawy was invited to be a member of the ITI-9th ICICT Expert’s Forum for preparation of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (9th ICICT). The conference will be held on March 26-28, 2012.

Dr. Ahmed Tawfik presentation entitled “Energy Production From Pre-Treated Rice Straw Via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor“, could be found on the rice straw project website: http://www.biomassandbioenergy.nl/ricestraw.htm.

The goal of the rice straw project is to identify economically viable and environmentally sound alternative uses for the approximately 4 M tons of rice straw in Egypt that are produced each year and thereby reduce the environmental impact of field burning, which is the current disposal method.

As part of this project, a seminar on rice straw utilisation options was conducted on December 12th, 2011. The objectives of the Rice Straw seminar were threefold:

1. To share the results of the Research project “Alternative
concepts and technologies for beneficial utilisation of rice straw”, carried out by Wageningen UR,
2. To review other potential applications for rice straw within Egypt
and abroad,
3. To accelerate knowledge transfer and commercialisation of new technologies by facilitating greater exchange among private sector involved in for agricultural waste management.

Dr. Moustafa Youssef has a paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012), one of the top Pervasive Computing conference with acceptance rate of 11%. The paper title is “RASID: A Robust WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection System”.

IEEE PerCom, now in its 10th edition, has established itself as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications has evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. http://www.percom.org/
On December 21, 2011, Prof. El-Sharkawy attended the TIEC Technology meeting regarding the acceleration of the adaption of cloud technologies. He discussed with Microsoft Group possible cooperation with E-JUST
r. Ahmed Elmahdy has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor by the Egyptian Supreme Universities Council.

Dr. Ahmed Abdelmoneim has been promoted to the rank of full professor.

Dr. Moustafa Youssef in invited to participate in NSF-funded “United-States/Middle-East Workshop On Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks," workshop, which will be held at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 4-6, 2012.

This workshop will bring together leading US and Mideast researchers with the goal of spurring future collaborative projects and activities. Towards that end, the workshop will be organized with an emphasis on activities designed to facilitate tangible outcomes

Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to visit Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Qatar and provide seminars on February 18, 2012. http://qatar.cmu.edu .
Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is an invited speaker at the workshop on waste management starting December 12, 2011. The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is co-organizing the workshop with Wageningen University and the Dutch Embassy in Cairo. Dec 12, the workshop will be held in Cairo and the main focus will be on Agricultural Waste Management. While on Dec 13, the workshop will be held in Zagazige and the focus will be on solid waste management. Dr. Tawfik presentation, on December 12, is entitled Energy Production from Pre-Treated Rice Straw via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor .

Prof. Mohamed Ayad presented his invited lecture at the IUPAC 7th International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-VII) and the 21st International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers (FCFP-XXI), which was held in Shanghai from 16 to 21 October, 2011.http://www.nms-iupac.org/index.asp. The title of the lecture was Kinetics and Isotherm Studies of Methylene Blue Adsorption onto Polyaniline Nanotubes Base/Silica Composite .

A new U. S. Patent will be issued to Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy on November 8, 2011: Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny, Load Balancing for Image Processing using Multiple Processors , U.S. Patent 8056086, 8-Nov, 2011.

Dr. Nermine Harraz presented the following two papers at the 41st international conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE 41) held at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA:Walid Gomaa, Nermine Harraz and Amr Eltawil, Crop Planning and Water Management: A Survey .

Dr. Moustafa Youssef was the Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Collaborative, Autonomic, and Resilient Defense for Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhyCARD 2011), held in conjunction with CollaborateCom-2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 2011.

Dr. Mohamed Abdellatif is a member of the technical program committee for the First International Symposium on Socially and Technically Symbiotic Systems (STSS2012), Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, August 2012.

Dr. Nermine Harraz was promoted to the rank of associate professor at the department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management. Congratulations to her from E-JUST faculty and staff.
Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invitated to attend the Microsoft Research Hawaii faculty dinner at MobiSys 2011, on June 29th, 2011. This event is primarily a celebration of successful launch of Microsoft Research Project (MSR Project Hawaii) earlier this year, with Windows Phone 7 and new cloud services. At the event, MSR researchers will present future strategy and plans for the project, and academic faculty will talk about their experiences with Project Hawaii.

http://research.microsoft.com/hawaii

Dr. El-Sharkawy represented E-JUST at the EU-Egypt Innovation Fund meeting on June 20, 2011. Prof. Essam Sharaf, the Prime Minister of Egypt and Prof. Amr Ezzat Salama, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research started phase II of the RDI program. The next call for proposals for phase II will be in October/November 2011.

Dr. Shalaby presented a paper, entitled, Contention Resolution using Control Packet Buffering in Optical Burst Switched Networks at Access Networks In-House Communications conference, ANIC 2011, Toronto, Canada, June 12-16, 2011. He also visited Laval University, Quebec city, Canada, and delivered a talk entitled, Contention Resolution using Control Packet Buffering in OBS Networks. In-band Hybrid SAC/OCDMA-WDM Overlay System , June 20, 2011.

Dr. Ahmed Elmahdy issued the US Patent no. 7979672 on 12-July-2011, with the title MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS FOR 3D ARRAY TRANSPOSITION BY LOGICALLY RETRIEVING IN-PLACE PHYSICALLY TRANSPOSED SUB-ARRAY DATA . Dr Ahmed El-Mahdy is the key inventor.

Dr. Walid Gomaa and Dr. Ahmed ElMahdy are invited by the French research institute INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) to visit research groups in Nancy and Rennes and to meet with INRIA administrative personnel. The trip is funded by the French Cultural Center in Cairo and is scheduled from July 6th, 2011 to July 13th, 2011. The purpose of the visit is to help establishing an agreement between E-JUST and INRIA for scientific collaboration. INRIA is a public research institute in France promoting research in computer science and related disciplines. Such scientific collaboration will involve the following:

1) visit by current E-JUST graduate students (MSc and PhD):

short to medium term visits.
2) post-doctorate positions for students graduated from E-JUST:
medium to long term visits.
3) mutual visits of senior researchers from both sides: short visits.
4) co-advising of E-JUST students by French researchers.
5) writing joint research proposals.

Dr. Maha Elsabrouty presented the paper entitled Modeling Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks by A. Ibraheem, M. Elsabrouty and Salwa Elramly, at the International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems in Canada, June 2011. She was the chair of the Signal and communication systems I session.

Dr. Masoud Alghoniemy paper Progressive quantized projection approach to data hiding. IEEE Trans Image Processing; 2006 Feb.,15(2):459-72 , is recognized as one of the top 10 article in the area by BioMedLib.

The article introduced a novel algorithm for data hiding in images based on quantized projections on certain subspaces that are robust to geometric and non-geometric attacks. The proposed approach has very important real-life applications e.g., military, digital watermarking, media ownership tracking, etc.. The proposed approach can be implemented in real-time due to its low complexity nature.

Dr. Mohamed Ayad papers Ayad MM, Torad NL: Alcohol vapours sensor based on thin polyaniline salt film and quartz crystal microbalance. Talanta; 2009 Jun 15;78(4-5):1280-5 and Ayad MM, El-Hefnawey G, Torad NL: A sensor of alcohol vapours based on thin polyaniline base film and quartz crystal microbalance. J Hazard Mater; 2009 Aug 30;168(1):85-8 as two of the top 10 articles by BioMedLib.

Dr. Ahmed Abd El-Monein received the new patent: Anode for electrochemical reaction, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El-Moneim and Naokazu Kumagai, US 7,914,653, 2011.
He also received the following patents in 2010:

a. Oxygen evolution electrode, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El-
Moneim, Naokazu Kumagai, US 7,803,260 B2, Sept. 2010,
and

b. Oxygen evolution electrode, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El-
Moneim and Naokazu Kumagai, US 7, 811, 426 B2, Oct. 2010.
The Computer Science and Engineering graduate student Moustafa Farid received the 2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2011) Student Grant in the amount of 600 Euros (http://ipin2011.dsi.uminho.pt/).

The purpose of the IPIN Student Grants Program is to encourage PhD students participation at the IPIN2011 conference by partially or fully funding the travel, accommodation and registration costs http://ipin2011.dsi.uminho.pt/grants.php.

Prof. Amin Shokry co-authored the chapter titled A framework for bridging the gap between symbolic and non-symbolic AI ; to be published in an INTECH Open Access Publisher book edited by Dr. Mahmoud El-Hefnawy, October 2011.

Dr. Zakarya Zyada becomes a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN with appointment to the Robot Control Research Team, RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research, Corporate International Relations Division, RIKEN Advance Science Institute until March 2012.

The CSE graduate student Moustafa Farid received the Google Software Engineering Internship at Google s Zurich office for 3 months. He is supervised by Dr. Moustafa Youssef.

Google Internship: All interns receive ongoing mentorship and training throughout their program at Google. An intern will have the opportunity of working closely with the Software Engineers at Google who are researchers and developers who yearn to create and implement complex computer science solutions. During the internship, an intern is assigned to a host person working in Google whose role is to inspire him, oversee his work, help identify project goals, and support his professional development. In addition, there are a series of training sessions and technical talks. For more details about Google Internships:
http://www.google.com/jobs/students/emea/internships/

Eng. Muhammad Ahmed Hataba, student at CSE department, received a grant in the amount of 460 EUR to attend the CONET2011 Summer School : Networked embedded Systems: Humans in the Loop , in Bertinoro â€" Italy. It was organized by ETH Zurich from July 24 to July 30, 2011. For more details, please click on the link www.cooperating-objects.eu/school/2011.

According to Microsoft Academic search, Dr. Moustafa Youssef has 70 publications and 607 citations. Alexandria University has 993 publications and 1,256 citations.

Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to speak at the MobiCom 2011 Outrageous Opinion session. The goal of this session is to bring out bold ideas and opinions that are apparently impractical, against established norm, or simply shocking. In the past, speakers have challenged accepted modes of operation in the MobiCom community, proposed new directions in how research should be performed, and even presented recipes to get papers accepted to MobiCom.

ACM MobiCom 2011 is the 17th in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. MobiCom 2011 will be held in September 19-23, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been selected as an Area Editor for the ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review (MC2R). MC2R is the peer-reviewed quarterly ACM publication that keeps the mobile computing and networking community abreast of all the happenings in this rapidly exploding field. ACM MC2R publishes high-quality academic and industrial research contributions on the design of new generations of personal, mobile, and ubiquitous information and communications technologies.

Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy was awarded Amazon Education Grant for his course CSE 601-Parallel Processors (Spring 2011) The grant amount was $600 dollars (later extended to $1100) in terms of access credit to the amazon cloud; the grant was used in an extensive term project by course students (Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Sameh Samra, Muhammed Hataba, and Ahmed Shalaby); the project studied the performance of the amazon cloud using the non-traditional high performance SPECMPI2007 benchmark as a workload; the project also conducted a comparative study using the in-house Ecualytpus cloud.

Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invited by Microsoft Research (MSR) to participate in the second phase of the Hawaii Project in fall 2011. Dr. Moustafa Youssef participated in the First Hawaii Project in spring 2011 and attended the Microsoft Research Hawaii faculty dinner at MobiSys 2011, on June 29th, 2011. This event was primarily a celebration of the successful launch of the spring 2011 Projects, with Windows Phone 7 and new cloud services. At the event, MSC researchers presented future strategy and plans for the project, and academic representatives talked about their experiences with Project Hawaii. By participating in this round, EJUST will get support for the Mobile Computing course taught by Dr. Youssef as well as an award for the best project. For more information about the project and past offered course, please check the web sites: http://research.microsoft.com/hawaii and http://wrc.ejust.edu.eg/courses/mc_s11/.

The device-free passive localization project, funded by the STDF and currently being transferred to EJUST, has been selected to compete under the ACM SIGMobile Graduate Student Research Competition. Dr. Moustafa Youssef is the PI for this project. The lead student in the project gets a $500 grant to attend the conference and present the work. In addition, the student can win an extra $500 if he is selected as a winner.
Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy published a paper in the IBM Journal of Research and Development which is according to the latest Journal Ranking of Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, is now ranked no. 1 in the areas of Computer Science: Hardware Architecture and the area of Computer Science: Software Engineering; it is also ranked as no. 2 in all other areas of Computer Science. The published paper is:

A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, High-quality HDR rendering technologies for emerging applications, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 8:1â€"15, Nov. 2010.

Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is a member of the Editorial Board of both the Canadian Center of Science and Education Journals: Energy and Environment Research Journal and Environment and Pollution Journal.

Dr. Aboubakr has been selected as a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Materials Science. Journal Website: http://journal.sapub.org/MATERIALS
Editorial Board Website: http://www.sapub.org/journal/editorialboard.aspx?JournalID=1001
Dr. Mostafa Youssef team won the 3rd place in the ACM SIGMobile Graduate Student Research. They received a medal, a $700 award, a two year free ACM membership and have been selected to compete in the general ACM Student Research Competition.

The research work has been presented in front of all Mobicom attendees, the world top mobile wireless conference, with an EJUST affiliation and support from STDF.

E-JUST wish them good luck in the general ACM Student Research Competition.

Dr. Mostafa El-Khamy presented a research paper at the 22nd annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) held 11-14 September 2011 in Toronto, Canada. PIMRC is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society s flagship conferences in telecommunications. The presented paper is titled Optimized Bases Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radio. Dr. El-Khamy co-authored this paper with Mohamed Farrag, E-JUST ECE Graduate Student and Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawy, E-JUST VP for Research.
Dr. Ahmed Abdelmoneim has been promoted to the rank of full professor.
Dr. Moustafa Youssef in invited to participate in NSF-funded “United-States/Middle-East Workshop On Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks," workshop, which will be held at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 4-6, 2012.This workshop will bring together leading US and Mideast researchers with the goal of spurring future collaborative projects and activities. Towards that end, the workshop will be organized with an emphasis on activities designed to facilitate tangible outcomes.
Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to visit Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Qatar and provide seminars on February 18, 2012. http://qatar.cmu.edu .

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V. P. Message Vision Advisory Board Centers and Facilities Faculty Expertise Published Papers Memorandums Research Documents Research News Patents by Faculty Adjunct Faculty Funding Opportunities Recent Grants Library	Research News: Ing. Nunzio Abbate, Director of Automation & Transportation Group at STMicroelectronics S.r.I., Dott. Carla Marino, ST Catania Site Manager, Dr. Salvatore Sessa, Visiting Associate Professor at E-JUST and Dr. Ahmed Ramada, Assistant Professor at E-JUST signed a non-disclosure agreement for their future cooperation. Dr. Aboubakr Abdullah was an invited by Prof Salem Altheyab, Director of Petrochemical chair at KSU, and Dr. Attiah Al-ghamdi, Head of N ECP-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to give a talk about his research activity, and his contribution to the fuel cell project with KSU and KACST. Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invited to give two lectures at University of Florida and Rice University Dr. Mahmoud Bady is an invited speaker at the Montreal International Engineering Forum 2012 that takes place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 9-10, 2012. The forum is hosted by the EPS Inc., a Canada-based biomedical consultant agency. www.epsglobal.ca and www.epsworldlink.com. Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy has been awarded the best paper (out of 48 papers) in the 2011 International Conference on Computer Engineering (ICCES'2011), Ain Shams University, Egypt. The paper title is "Fair and Adaptive Online Set-Based Cache Partitioning”. The conference is an IEEE conference, with paper acceptance rate of 40%. Dr. Walid Gomaa received an invitation for one month at the Mathematics Department in International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste Italy http://www.ictp.it . ICTP will cover all his travel and living expenses. Prof. Yehia Elmahgary had the presentation “Applying Solar Absorption AC in Arab Countries at the Conference organized by the Arab Academy of Sciences (AAS), on "Water & Energy in Sustainable Food Security", Beirut, December 2011. Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is an invited speaker at the “Rice straw to Business” Seminar, December 12, 2011 at Marriott Hotel, Zamalek, Cairo. His presentation is entitled “Energy Production from Pre-Treated Rice Straw via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor”. On December 17, 2011, Dr. Amr Eltawil provided the presentation “Container Yard Planning Decisions” at the “Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport”. Prof. El-Sharkawy, Dr. Nermine Harraz Dr. Walid Gomaa represented E-JUST at this meeting. The presentation was attended by over 50 professionals from the three public container companies in Alexandria, Damietta and Port Said. Special thanks to Prof. Said Gharraf –Vice Chairman of the Holding company- for arranging and hosting this seminar. The group will be providing separate seminars in the three holding companies in pursue of joint research projects with the companies in the field of container yard terminals management and planning. Prof. El-Sharkawy was invited to be a member of the ITI-9th ICICT Expert’s Forum for preparation of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (9th ICICT). The conference will be held on March 26-28, 2012. Dr. Ahmed Tawfik presentation entitled “Energy Production From Pre-Treated Rice Straw Via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor“, could be found on the rice straw project website: http://www.biomassandbioenergy.nl/ricestraw.htm. The goal of the rice straw project is to identify economically viable and environmentally sound alternative uses for the approximately 4 M tons of rice straw in Egypt that are produced each year and thereby reduce the environmental impact of field burning, which is the current disposal method. As part of this project, a seminar on rice straw utilisation options was conducted on December 12th, 2011. The objectives of the Rice Straw seminar were threefold: 1. To share the results of the Research project “Alternative concepts and technologies for beneficial utilisation of rice straw”, carried out by Wageningen UR, 2. To review other potential applications for rice straw within Egypt and abroad, 3. To accelerate knowledge transfer and commercialisation of new technologies by facilitating greater exchange among private sector involved in for agricultural waste management. Dr. Moustafa Youssef has a paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012), one of the top Pervasive Computing conference with acceptance rate of 11%. The paper title is “RASID: A Robust WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection System”. IEEE PerCom, now in its 10th edition, has established itself as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications has evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. http://www.percom.org/ On December 21, 2011, Prof. El-Sharkawy attended the TIEC Technology meeting regarding the acceleration of the adaption of cloud technologies. He discussed with Microsoft Group possible cooperation with E-JUST r. Ahmed Elmahdy has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor by the Egyptian Supreme Universities Council. Dr. Ahmed Abdelmoneim has been promoted to the rank of full professor. Dr. Moustafa Youssef in invited to participate in NSF-funded “United-States/Middle-East Workshop On Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks," workshop, which will be held at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 4-6, 2012. This workshop will bring together leading US and Mideast researchers with the goal of spurring future collaborative projects and activities. Towards that end, the workshop will be organized with an emphasis on activities designed to facilitate tangible outcomes Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to visit Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Qatar and provide seminars on February 18, 2012. http://qatar.cmu.edu . Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is an invited speaker at the workshop on waste management starting December 12, 2011. The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is co-organizing the workshop with Wageningen University and the Dutch Embassy in Cairo. Dec 12, the workshop will be held in Cairo and the main focus will be on Agricultural Waste Management. While on Dec 13, the workshop will be held in Zagazige and the focus will be on solid waste management. Dr. Tawfik presentation, on December 12, is entitled Energy Production from Pre-Treated Rice Straw via Anaerobic Dark Fermentation Reactor . Prof. Mohamed Ayad presented his invited lecture at the IUPAC 7th International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-VII) and the 21st International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers (FCFP-XXI), which was held in Shanghai from 16 to 21 October, 2011.http://www.nms-iupac.org/index.asp. The title of the lecture was Kinetics and Isotherm Studies of Methylene Blue Adsorption onto Polyaniline Nanotubes Base/Silica Composite . A new U. S. Patent will be issued to Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy on November 8, 2011: Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny, Load Balancing for Image Processing using Multiple Processors , U.S. Patent 8056086, 8-Nov, 2011. Dr. Nermine Harraz presented the following two papers at the 41st international conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE 41) held at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA:Walid Gomaa, Nermine Harraz and Amr Eltawil, Crop Planning and Water Management: A Survey . Hadi N. Fors, Nermine Harraz and Mohamed G. Abouali, Supplier Ranking and Order Allocation Problem In Supply Chain Management . Dr. Moustafa Youssef was the Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Collaborative, Autonomic, and Resilient Defense for Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhyCARD 2011), held in conjunction with CollaborateCom-2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 2011. Dr. Mohamed Abdellatif is a member of the technical program committee for the First International Symposium on Socially and Technically Symbiotic Systems (STSS2012), Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, August 2012. Dr. Nermine Harraz was promoted to the rank of associate professor at the department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management. Congratulations to her from E-JUST faculty and staff. Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invitated to attend the Microsoft Research Hawaii faculty dinner at MobiSys 2011, on June 29th, 2011. This event is primarily a celebration of successful launch of Microsoft Research Project (MSR Project Hawaii) earlier this year, with Windows Phone 7 and new cloud services. At the event, MSR researchers will present future strategy and plans for the project, and academic faculty will talk about their experiences with Project Hawaii. Project webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/hawaii Dr. El-Sharkawy represented E-JUST at the EU-Egypt Innovation Fund meeting on June 20, 2011. Prof. Essam Sharaf, the Prime Minister of Egypt and Prof. Amr Ezzat Salama, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research started phase II of the RDI program. The next call for proposals for phase II will be in October/November 2011. Dr. Shalaby presented a paper, entitled, Contention Resolution using Control Packet Buffering in Optical Burst Switched Networks at Access Networks In-House Communications conference, ANIC 2011, Toronto, Canada, June 12-16, 2011. He also visited Laval University, Quebec city, Canada, and delivered a talk entitled, Contention Resolution using Control Packet Buffering in OBS Networks. In-band Hybrid SAC/OCDMA-WDM Overlay System , June 20, 2011. Dr. Ahmed Elmahdy issued the US Patent no. 7979672 on 12-July-2011, with the title MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS FOR 3D ARRAY TRANSPOSITION BY LOGICALLY RETRIEVING IN-PLACE PHYSICALLY TRANSPOSED SUB-ARRAY DATA . Dr Ahmed El-Mahdy is the key inventor. Dr. Walid Gomaa and Dr. Ahmed ElMahdy are invited by the French research institute INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) to visit research groups in Nancy and Rennes and to meet with INRIA administrative personnel. The trip is funded by the French Cultural Center in Cairo and is scheduled from July 6th, 2011 to July 13th, 2011. The purpose of the visit is to help establishing an agreement between E-JUST and INRIA for scientific collaboration. INRIA is a public research institute in France promoting research in computer science and related disciplines. Such scientific collaboration will involve the following: 1) visit by current E-JUST graduate students (MSc and PhD): short to medium term visits. 2) post-doctorate positions for students graduated from E-JUST: medium to long term visits. 3) mutual visits of senior researchers from both sides: short visits. 4) co-advising of E-JUST students by French researchers. 5) writing joint research proposals. Dr. Maha Elsabrouty presented the paper entitled Modeling Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks by A. Ibraheem, M. Elsabrouty and Salwa Elramly, at the International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems in Canada, June 2011. She was the chair of the Signal and communication systems I session. Dr. Masoud Alghoniemy paper Progressive quantized projection approach to data hiding. IEEE Trans Image Processing; 2006 Feb.,15(2):459-72 , is recognized as one of the top 10 article in the area by BioMedLib. The article introduced a novel algorithm for data hiding in images based on quantized projections on certain subspaces that are robust to geometric and non-geometric attacks. The proposed approach has very important real-life applications e.g., military, digital watermarking, media ownership tracking, etc.. The proposed approach can be implemented in real-time due to its low complexity nature. Dr. Mohamed Ayad papers Ayad MM, Torad NL: Alcohol vapours sensor based on thin polyaniline salt film and quartz crystal microbalance. Talanta; 2009 Jun 15;78(4-5):1280-5 and Ayad MM, El-Hefnawey G, Torad NL: A sensor of alcohol vapours based on thin polyaniline base film and quartz crystal microbalance. J Hazard Mater; 2009 Aug 30;168(1):85-8 as two of the top 10 articles by BioMedLib. Dr. Ahmed Abd El-Monein received the new patent: Anode for electrochemical reaction, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El-Moneim and Naokazu Kumagai, US 7,914,653, 2011. He also received the following patents in 2010: a. Oxygen evolution electrode, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El- Moneim, Naokazu Kumagai, US 7,803,260 B2, Sept. 2010, and b. Oxygen evolution electrode, Koji Hashimoto, Ahmed Abd El- Moneim and Naokazu Kumagai, US 7, 811, 426 B2, Oct. 2010. The Computer Science and Engineering graduate student Moustafa Farid received the 2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2011) Student Grant in the amount of 600 Euros (http://ipin2011.dsi.uminho.pt/). The purpose of the IPIN Student Grants Program is to encourage PhD students participation at the IPIN2011 conference by partially or fully funding the travel, accommodation and registration costs http://ipin2011.dsi.uminho.pt/grants.php. Prof. Amin Shokry co-authored the chapter titled A framework for bridging the gap between symbolic and non-symbolic AI ; to be published in an INTECH Open Access Publisher book edited by Dr. Mahmoud El-Hefnawy, October 2011. Dr. Zakarya Zyada becomes a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN with appointment to the Robot Control Research Team, RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research, Corporate International Relations Division, RIKEN Advance Science Institute until March 2012. The CSE graduate student Moustafa Farid received the Google Software Engineering Internship at Google s Zurich office for 3 months. He is supervised by Dr. Moustafa Youssef. Google Internship: All interns receive ongoing mentorship and training throughout their program at Google. An intern will have the opportunity of working closely with the Software Engineers at Google who are researchers and developers who yearn to create and implement complex computer science solutions. During the internship, an intern is assigned to a host person working in Google whose role is to inspire him, oversee his work, help identify project goals, and support his professional development. In addition, there are a series of training sessions and technical talks. For more details about Google Internships: http://www.google.com/jobs/students/emea/internships/ Eng. Muhammad Ahmed Hataba, student at CSE department, received a grant in the amount of 460 EUR to attend the CONET2011 Summer School : Networked embedded Systems: Humans in the Loop , in Bertinoro â€" Italy. It was organized by ETH Zurich from July 24 to July 30, 2011. For more details, please click on the link www.cooperating-objects.eu/school/2011. According to Microsoft Academic search, Dr. Moustafa Youssef has 70 publications and 607 citations. Alexandria University has 993 publications and 1,256 citations. Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to speak at the MobiCom 2011 Outrageous Opinion session. The goal of this session is to bring out bold ideas and opinions that are apparently impractical, against established norm, or simply shocking. In the past, speakers have challenged accepted modes of operation in the MobiCom community, proposed new directions in how research should be performed, and even presented recipes to get papers accepted to MobiCom. ACM MobiCom 2011 is the 17th in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. MobiCom 2011 will be held in September 19-23, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been selected as an Area Editor for the ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review (MC2R). MC2R is the peer-reviewed quarterly ACM publication that keeps the mobile computing and networking community abreast of all the happenings in this rapidly exploding field. ACM MC2R publishes high-quality academic and industrial research contributions on the design of new generations of personal, mobile, and ubiquitous information and communications technologies. Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy was awarded Amazon Education Grant for his course CSE 601-Parallel Processors (Spring 2011) The grant amount was $600 dollars (later extended to $1100) in terms of access credit to the amazon cloud; the grant was used in an extensive term project by course students (Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Sameh Samra, Muhammed Hataba, and Ahmed Shalaby); the project studied the performance of the amazon cloud using the non-traditional high performance SPECMPI2007 benchmark as a workload; the project also conducted a comparative study using the in-house Ecualytpus cloud. Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been invited by Microsoft Research (MSR) to participate in the second phase of the Hawaii Project in fall 2011. Dr. Moustafa Youssef participated in the First Hawaii Project in spring 2011 and attended the Microsoft Research Hawaii faculty dinner at MobiSys 2011, on June 29th, 2011. This event was primarily a celebration of the successful launch of the spring 2011 Projects, with Windows Phone 7 and new cloud services. At the event, MSC researchers presented future strategy and plans for the project, and academic representatives talked about their experiences with Project Hawaii. By participating in this round, EJUST will get support for the Mobile Computing course taught by Dr. Youssef as well as an award for the best project. For more information about the project and past offered course, please check the web sites: http://research.microsoft.com/hawaii and http://wrc.ejust.edu.eg/courses/mc_s11/. The device-free passive localization project, funded by the STDF and currently being transferred to EJUST, has been selected to compete under the ACM SIGMobile Graduate Student Research Competition. Dr. Moustafa Youssef is the PI for this project. The lead student in the project gets a $500 grant to attend the conference and present the work. In addition, the student can win an extra $500 if he is selected as a winner. Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy published a paper in the IBM Journal of Research and Development which is according to the latest Journal Ranking of Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, is now ranked no. 1 in the areas of Computer Science: Hardware Architecture and the area of Computer Science: Software Engineering; it is also ranked as no. 2 in all other areas of Computer Science. The published paper is: A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, High-quality HDR rendering technologies for emerging applications, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 8:1â€"15, Nov. 2010. Dr. Ahmed Tawfik is a member of the Editorial Board of both the Canadian Center of Science and Education Journals: Energy and Environment Research Journal and Environment and Pollution Journal. Dr. Aboubakr has been selected as a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Materials Science. Journal Website: http://journal.sapub.org/MATERIALS Editorial Board Website: http://www.sapub.org/journal/editorialboard.aspx?JournalID=1001 Dr. Mostafa Youssef team won the 3rd place in the ACM SIGMobile Graduate Student Research. They received a medal, a $700 award, a two year free ACM membership and have been selected to compete in the general ACM Student Research Competition. The research work has been presented in front of all Mobicom attendees, the world top mobile wireless conference, with an EJUST affiliation and support from STDF. E-JUST wish them good luck in the general ACM Student Research Competition. Dr. Mostafa El-Khamy presented a research paper at the 22nd annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) held 11-14 September 2011 in Toronto, Canada. PIMRC is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society s flagship conferences in telecommunications. The presented paper is titled Optimized Bases Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radio. Dr. El-Khamy co-authored this paper with Mohamed Farrag, E-JUST ECE Graduate Student and Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawy, E-JUST VP for Research. Dr. Ahmed Abdelmoneim has been promoted to the rank of full professor. Dr. Moustafa Youssef in invited to participate in NSF-funded “United-States/Middle-East Workshop On Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks," workshop, which will be held at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 4-6, 2012.This workshop will bring together leading US and Mideast researchers with the goal of spurring future collaborative projects and activities. Towards that end, the workshop will be organized with an emphasis on activities designed to facilitate tangible outcomes. Dr. Moustafa Youssef is invited to visit Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Qatar and provide seminars on February 18, 2012. http://qatar.cmu.edu .