Honors, Awards, and Professional Service

·        Ranked 5th among 500,000 students in the College Entarnce Examination  in Egypt (1964).

·        National Research Council of CanadaPostgraduate Scholarship (1972­1976).

·        General Co-Chair (with Cathy  Savolaine), IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications: ISCC'2001.

·        General Co­Chair(with Mohamed Gouda) Third Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences, 1997.

·        Workshop Organizer, WET ICE '96 Workshop on Distance L earning, Stanford University, June 1996.

·        Editorial Board Member: Journal of Distance Education Technologies (2001-current).

·        NSF Network security Panel member, July 2004.

·        NSF ITR and Sensor Networks Panel member, May 2003.

·        NSF SBIR/STTR Panel member: Web Applications, September 2001.

·        NSF SBIR/STTR Panel member: Security, August 2006.

·        NSF SBIR/STTR Panel member: Security, February 2006.

·        Department of Energy Network security Panel member, May 2004.

·        Department of Energy  Early Career Program Panel member, March 2006.

·        Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Science, United Arab Emirates University, 2000-2001.

·        IEEE Senior Member.

·        External Assessor for the Department of Computer Science at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, May 20-27, 2006.

·        Organizing Workshop on Promoting Collaborative Research in Computers and Communications between US and Middle Eastern Researchers, Cairo, Jan 2005.

·        Steering Committee Member (started with Tarek  Saadawi,  Mostafa Hashem Sherif and  Ahmed Tantawy)

     IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC):  

      1. 1995 (Egypt),
      2. 1997 (Egypt),
      3. 1998 (Greece),
      4. 1999 (Egypt),
      5. 2000 (France),
      6. 2001 (Tunisia),
      7. 2002 (Italy),
      8. 2003 (Turkey),
      9. 2004 (Egypt),
      10. 2005 (Spain),
      11. 2006 (Italy)

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