Awards and Honors

• Best Paper Award (2020):
  

  My paper "A combinatorial methodology for optimizing non-binary graph-based codes: Theoretical analysis and applications in data storage" won the 2018-2019 Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee (DSTC).
  
  

• Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award (2019):
  

  I won the prestigious 2018-2019 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Signals and Systems from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA.
  
  

• Memorable Paper Award (2018):
  

  My paper "A three-stage approach for designing non-binary spatially-coupled codes for Flash memories," which is a summary of my ITW 2017 paper, "High performance non-binary spatially-coupled codes for Flash memories," won the inaugural Memorable Paper Award at the 2018 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW), in the area of devices, coding, and information theory.
  
  

• Dissertation Year Fellowship (2017):
  

  I won the 2017-2018 Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) at UCLA, which is a campus-wide fellowship. Only four Ph.D. candidates in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA won the fellowship that year.
  
  

• Excellence in Teaching Award (2017):
  

  I won the 2016-2017 Electrical Engineering Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award for teaching Probability and Statistics (EE 131A) at UCLA.
  
  

• ITA Graduation Day Talk (2017):
  

  I represented UCLA by giving a Graduation Day (GD) Talk at the 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA).
  
  

• Best Paper Award (2015):
  

  My paper "Non-binary LDPC code optimization for partial-response channels" won the Best Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Selected Areas in Communications (SAC), Data Storage Track.
  
  

• Ph.D. Scholarship (2014-2018):
  

  I received a Ph.D. scholarship offer to work as a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) with LORIS Lab in the ECE Department at UCLA.
  
  

• First Overall Ranking (2008):
  

  I was ranked first among my peers with respect to the cumulative grade of my M.S. graduate classes, which was 94.7%, in the Electronics and Communications Engineering Department at Cairo University.
  
  

• Egyptian Engineering Day Award (2006):
  

  My Cairo University SPARC (CUSPARC, a RISC processor) graduation project was the winner of the first prize at the 2006 Egyptian Engineering Day (EED) organized by IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Egypt.