Prof. Ahmed Elmahdy

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Nile University, Egypt

Prof Ahmed El-Mahdy is the dean of the ITCS School, Nile University. He joined NU in February 2023. He got his BSc and MSc from Alexandria University and his PhD from Manchester University, UK. Coming from a computing systems background, Prof El-Mahdy is now exploring making quantum computing usable in practice. His group is exploring Quantum-AI, dealing with quantum noise, developing ‘self-healing’ quantum memories, and doing practical quantum communications. He collaborates strongly with Waseda University, Japan, UAEU, the Emirates, and E-JUST, Egypt.

Upon his undergraduate graduation, he received the best student award from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University.  He was also awarded the prestigious IBM faculty award for his work on the Cell processor. He has also won first prize in the Middle East in the MIT Arab Start-up Competition; he received a distinguished promotion to full professor from the Supreme Council of Universities. He was awarded the Tariq Abd El-Wareth Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Innovation Pillar, and the Dr Tarek Khalil Award for Outstanding Leadership from Nile University. He has many issued US patents and publications.

He is currently a member of the organising committee of the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, responsible for publicity for the Middle East and Africa.