Grants
Proposal Title: Designing, Manufacturing and Developing of Prototype Desalination Systems
Funding Agency: Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF)
Participants:
Dr. Abu Bakr Abdullah (PI),
Prof. Mohamed Ayad,
Dr. Ahmed Tawfik,
Dr. Mohamed Gepreel,
Prof. Ahmed Galal (Cairo University),
Dr. Osama Fouaad (Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute CMRDI)
Dr. Ahmed El-Zatahry (CSAT) (Co-Is)
Budget: 1,754,240 EGP
Duration:Three years
Status: Waiting to be transferred to E-JUST
Proposal Title: Enhancement Effect of Magnetic Nanoparticles on Bio-hydrogen Production from Organic Wastes via Pilot – Scale Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR)
Funding Agency: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, a Joint Research Grant under the South African/Egypt Research Partnership Bilateral Agreement Program
Participants: Dr. Ahmed Tawfik (PI)
Budget: 248,000 EGP
Duration: Two Years
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: A Novel Pilot- Scale Application for Bio-hydrogen Fermentation of Starch Wastewater Industry and Synthesize of New Materials for Chemical Storage of Hydrogen
Funding Agency: Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) – USA
Participants:
Egyptian Side: Dr. Ahmed Tawfik (PI) and Dr. Aboubakr Abdullah (Co-PI)
US Side: Prof. Bruce Logan, Penn State University (PI)
Budget: US side: 119, 498 US Dollars. E-JUST side: 128,880 US Dollars
Duration: Two Years (October 1st, 2011 – October 1st, 2013)
Status: Waiting to be transferred to E-JUST
Proposal Title: Smart Traffic Control
Funding Agency: IBM
Participants:
Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy, Assistant Professor, E-JUST, (PI),
Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor (CO-PI)
Budget: $20,000 per year (renewable for one more year)
Duration: One Year
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Innovation of Sewage Treatment Technology for Agricultural Reuse in Arid Region from Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to implement an innovative full scale sewage treatment plant in one of the Egyptian villages
Funding Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Participants: Dr. Ahmed Tawfik in cooperation with Prof. Harada (PI) from Tohoku University
Budget: Tohoku University
Duration: Up to five years
Status: Feasibility study for one year. If evaluation of the feasibility study gains high score, then the research team will be allowed to proceed with the implementation stage for five years
Proposal Title: Electrospun Nanofibers for Encapsulation and Sustained Release of Ciprofloxacin HCl drug
Funding Agency: Pharco
Participants:
Ahmed Abdel-Moniem (PI),
Dr. Mona Bakr (Co-PI)
Mohamed Gepreel (member)
Budget: 362,000 EGP
Duration: 2 Years
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Smart Traffic Control
Funding Agency: IBM
Participants:
Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy, Assistant Professor, E-JUST, (PI)
Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor (CO-PI)
Budget: $20,000
Duration: 1 Year
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: IBM Faculty Award
Funding Agency: IBM
Participants: Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor (PI)
Budget: $10,000
Duration: One Year
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: Amazon Simple Notification Service for CSE601 Course
Funding Agency:Amazon Education Grant
Participants: Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy
Budget: $1,100
Duration: One Year (03/01/2011 – 03/01/2012)
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Googlers 2011 EMEA Android EDU Program
Funding Agency: Google
Participants: Dr. Moustafa Youssef
Budget: 5,000 US Dollars
Duration: 2011
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Research, Design and Implementation of the Physical Layer of the Long Term Evolution Mobile Station with Beam forming Antenna System
Funding Agency: NPRP 09-231-2-095, third cycle of the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) of QNRF
Participants:
Dr Essam Sourour, Professor, Alexandria University, (Lead PI)
Dr. Tamer Khattab, Qatar University, (Co-Lead PI)
Dr. Hossam Shalaby, Professor, E-JUST (Co-PI)
Dr. Said El-Noubi, Professor, Alexandria University, (Co-PI)
Dr. Ahmed Abou-Auf, Associate Professor, American University in Cairo, (Co-PI)
Budget: $ 700,000 3,990,000 EGP
Duration: Two Years
Status: In Progress, managed at Alexandria University
Proposal Title: Design and Implementation of Low-Cost Ladar Systems for Crash Avoidance
Funding Agency: Advanced Research Project (ARP), ITAC, Egypt
Participants:
Dr. Ahmed Abou Auf, Associate Professor, American University Cairo, (PI)
Dr. Hossam Shalaby, Professor, E-JUST, (Researcher)
Budget: 350,000 EGP
Duration: 9 months
Status: In Progress, E-JUST receives 9,480 EGP per month
Proposal Title: Locationoid: An Accurate Energy-Efficient Location Provider for the Android Platform
Funding Agency: Google Inc., USA
Participants: Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST (PI)
Budget: Research Award:$38,800
Status: In Progress (E-JUST received $38,800 out of $51,680)
Proposal Title: Parallel Networks Architecture (ParaNets)
Funding Agency: Networking Systems Lab (NSL), Carnegie Mellon, University – Qatar
Participants: Dr. Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST (PI)
Budget: 85,500 EGP
Duration: 2 years (September 2010 – September 2012)
Status: In Progress (E-JUST received 85,500 EGP)
Proposal Title: Microsoft Research Project Hawaii
Funding Agency: Microsoft Research USA
Participants: Dr. Moustafa Youssef (PI)
Budget: 3,000 US Dollars
Duration: Spring 2011
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: Wireless Research Projects
Funding Agency: TWAS - AAS - Microsoft
Participants: Dr. Moustafa Youssef (PI)
Budget: 3,000 Euros
Duration: January 2011
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: Co-existence between 4 G communication and cognitive radio
Funding Agency: National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
Participants:
Prof.Dr. Salwa Elramly, ASU, (PI).
Dr. Maha Elsabrouty, Assistant Professor, E-JUST, (CO-PI),
Dr. Fatma Newegy,
Dr. Sherif Welson
Budget: 1,401,804 EGP
Duration: 2 Years (March 2011 – March 2013)
Status: In Progress (managed at Ain Shams University)
Proposal Title: Implementation of the physical layer of the DVB-T2
Funding Agency: National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
Participants:
Dr. Ahmed Shalash, Varkon Semiconductors (PI)
Dr. Maha Elsabrouty, Assistant Professor, E-JUST
Budget: 1,185,000 EGP
Duration: 2 year. (July 2011 – July 2013)
Status: In Progress (managed at Varkon Semiconductors)
Proposal Title: Advanced Capacity Boosting Techniques in 4th Generation Wireless Systems
Funding Agency: National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
Participants:
Prof. Dr. Khaled El-Sayed (PI, Professor, Cairo Univ.),
Dr. Mostafa El-Khamy (Co-PI, E-JUST),
Dr. Mahmoud Ismail (Co-PI, Assist. Prof., Cairo Univ.)
Dr. Haitham Hamza (Co-PI, Assist. Prof., Cairo Univ.)
Budget: 1.6 Million EGP
Duration: 2 years
Status: In Progress (managed at Cairo University)
Proposal Title: Nuzzer: A Device-free Passive Localization System for Wireless Environments
Funding Agency: Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Young Investigator Award
Participants: Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST (PI) (Nile University)
Budget: 620,000 EGP
Duration: Three Years (January 2010 – January 2013)
Status: Waiting to be transferred to E-JUST
Proposal Title: Wireless Physical Layer Security- From Theory Practice
Funding Agency: Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), STDF-US Joint Research Grants
Participants:
Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST (Egypt - PI)
Hesham Elgamal, Ohio State University (USA - PI)
Nile University
Budget: $199,951.00
Duration: Three Years (January 2010 – January 2013)
Status: Waiting to be transferred to E-JUST
Proposal Title: Computational Complexity over the Real Numbers
Funding Agency: IMHOTEP award 2011-2012 (Academy of Scientific Research)
Participants: Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor, E-JUST
Budget: 20,000 EGP 7,000 Euros
Duration: 2 Years (January 1st, 2011 – December 31, 2012)
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Collaboration between E-JUST and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Funding Agency: French Cultural Center in Cairo (Travel Grant)
Participants: Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor, E-JUST
Budget: 3600 Euros
Duration: July 6, 2011 – July 13, 2011 (Travel Grant)
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: The framework of the French-Egyptian Year of Science and Technology 2010
Funding Agency: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Participants: Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor, E-JUST
Budget: 5000 Euros
Duration: One Year - 2010
Status: Finished
Proposal Title: Developing Computational Models for the GRNs of Common Diseases in Egypt
Funding Agency: Pharco
Participants:
Dr. Walid Gomaa, Assistant Professor, E-JUST
Dr. Mahmoud El-Hefnawi, Adjunct Professor
Budget: 80,000 EGP
Duration: OneYear (June 1st, 2011 – June 1st, 2012)
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: CellChek: A Cost-effective Cell Phone-based Patient Monitoring and Advising System
Funding Agency: Microsoft Research Grant, UK
Participants:
Tamer Elbatt, Nile University(PI)
Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST, (Co-PI)
Budget: $25,000
Duration: One Year (September 2010 – September 2011)
Status: Finished (managed at Nile University)
Proposal Title: Micro and Nanotechnology Based Wireless Sensors for Agriculture and Water Management
Funding Agency: Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Program
Participants:
Yehia Ismail, Nile University (PI)
Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST, (Co-PI)
Budget: 550,000 Euros
Duration: 2 Years (September 2009 – September 2011)
Status: Finished, managed at Nile University
Proposal Title: Bio-hydrogen production from waste materials
Funding Agency: Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF)
Participants:
Ahmed, Associate Professor, E-JUST (PI)
National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
Water Pollution Research Dept. Cairo, Egypt
Budget: 652,000 EGP
Duration: Three years ( May 2009 – May 2012)
Status: In Progress (managed at National Research Centre, Cairo)
Project Title: Computing with Continuous, Complex and Concurrent Systems (in Collaboration with CARTE Team in Loria Lab, France)
Funding Agency: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Participants:
Walid Gomaa, E-JUST
CARTE team in Loria Lab, France
Budget: 40,000 Euros
Duration: 2 Years (January 1st, 2010 – December 31, 2011)
Status: In Progress (managed at CARTE Team, Loria Lab, France
Project Title: New Nano Catalyst Prepared by Laser for New Energy Applications
Funding Agency: Photonic Research Department of National
Electronics, Communications, and Photonics (ECP) Program, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Participants:
Prof. Attiah Al-Ghamdi (PI), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST),
Dr. Aboubakr M. Abdullah (Co-PI), E-JUST,
Dr. Ahmed El-Zatahry (Co-PI),
King Saud University,
Dr. Ahmed Maarouf (Co-PI),
EGNC (Egypt Nanotechnology Center)
Budget: One Million Saudi Riyals
Duration: One Year (November 1, 2011 – October 31, 2012)
Status: In Progress (Managed by ECP Program, Saudi Arabia)
An agreement for supporting two E-JUST students is pending
Proposal Title: IPS: A Ubiquitous Indoor Positioning System
Funding Agency: Google Research Awards Program, USA
Participants: Dr. Moustafa Youssef
Budget: 126,000 EGP ($21,000)
Duration: One Year
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: Access to Amazon Cloud Computer
Funding Agency: Amazon Research Grant
Participants: Dr. Ahmed El-Mahdy
Budget: $5,000 (Cloud Access Credit)
Duration: Two Years
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: A Location-aided Framework for High Performance Cognitive Radio Networks
Funding Agency: Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
Participants: Moustafa Youssef (PI), Mustafa Elnainanay AlxU-VTMENA(Co-PI)
Budget: 1,365,315 EGP
Duration: Two years
Status: Approved
Proposal Title: Microsoft Research Project Hawaii
Funding Agency: Microsoft Research USA
Participants: Moustafa Youssef (PI)
Budget: 500 USD
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: A Real-time Facial Recognition Framework on Mobile Phones Using Embedded GPUs
Funding Agency: Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC), Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA)
Participants: Dr. Ahmed Elmahdy
Budget: 130,000 EGP
Duration: One year
Status: In Progress
Proposal Title: A Real-time Facial Recognition Framework on Mobile Phones Using Embedded GPUs
Funding Agency: Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC), Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA)
Participants: Dr. Ahmed Elmahdy (PI)
Budget: 130,000 EGP
Duration: One year
Status: Approved
Equipment Donation:
Proposal Title: Designing and Prototyping with Catapult C Synthesis
Funding Agency: Mentor Graphics, USA
Participants: Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Professor, E-JUST (PI)
Budget: Retail value of Software Package is $510,000
Proposal Title: Towards Practical Information Theoretically Secure Authentication and Data Integrity for RFID
Funding Agency: Intel Research, USA
Participants:
Moustafa Youssef, Assistant Professor, E-JUST (PI),
Hesham Elgamal, Ohio State University (Co-PI)
Budget: N/A
Proposal Title: Production of Metals, Alloys, and Compounds of High Purity in the Single Crystal and Polycrestalline Form
Funding Agency: Signature Facilities Initiative Equipment Grant
Participants: Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Hady Gepreel
Budget: $100,000
Proposal Title: The Wireless Research Facility
Funding Agency: Signature Facilities Initiative Equipment Grant
Participants: Moustafa Youssef (PI) and Dr. Ahmed Allam (Co-PI).
Budget: $100,000
Proposal Title: AndroidEDU program
Funding Agency: Google EMEA
Participants: Moustafa Youssef (PI)
Budget: 5,000 USD
Proposal Title: "Development of a cost effective crop monitoring with accurate control for intelligent irrigation systems"
Funding Agency: Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC), Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA)
Participants:
Dr. Ahmed Allam and Dr. Victor Goulart. (E-JUST) Professor Samir Ismail and Dr. Dr. Diaa El-Ansary, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University. "Business link" is the industrial partner
Budget: 130,000 EGP
Duration: One year
Status: In Progress