"the first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." - richard p. feynman
identify and solve security and privacy problems in wired and wireless networks.
ph.d. and m.sc. from dan brown school of Information and computer science at university of california, irvine (2010 and 2008). m.sc. and b.sc. in electrical engineering from cairo university in egypt (2005 and 2003).
contact me (not likely to change soon): last name + magic character + email system of most famous search engine
september'10 : research staff member in the information systems and sciences lab (issl) at hrl laboratories (formerly hughes research).
august'10: phd defense at uci. committee members: gene tsudik, scott jordan, srdjan capkun.
febuary'09 - july'09: academic guest at eth zurich in the system security group working with srdjan capkun on secure location verification and wireless device fingerprinting.
july'08 - may'10: founder and president of adball.com (dissolved in may'10).
may'07-august '07: summer internship at at&t research labs working with bala krishnamurthy and kobus Van der merwe on identifying and metigating large scale attacks in carrier networks.
october'03 - august'05: systems engineer at sysdsoft designing and developing medium access control (mac) of ieee802.16/wimax.