Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Associate at Calian Group Ltd., Kingston Ontario, Canada (November 2024 - present)

• Senior Technical Consultant for the SAE/GM Queen's AutoDrive Challenge™ II at Smith Engineering (July 2024 - present)

• Graduate Research Fellow at the Navigation and Instrumentation Research Laboratory (NavINST) at RMC & Queen's U, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  (September 2017 - July 2024)

Courses taken:

GEE 523 – Integrated Navigation Systems /RMC | Instructor: Prof. Aboelmagd Noureldin
GEE 503 – Wheeled Mobile Robots: Modeling, Control, and Instrumentation /RMC | Instructor: Prof. Sidney Givigi
ELEC 841 – Nonlinear System Identification | Instructor:  Prof. Michael Korenberg
ELEC 474 – Machine Vision | Instructor:  Prof. Michael Greenspan
CISC 867 – Deep Learning | Instructor:  Prof. Francois Rivest
ELEC 845 – Vehicle Control and Navigation | Instructor:  Prof. Joshua Marshall 

• Graduate Research Assistant for the SAE/GM Queen's AutoDrive Challenge™ II at Smith Engineering (December 2021 - June 2024)

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellow  at Micro Engineering Technologies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (January 2019  - January 2020)

Contributed to the development of the vehicle's navigation and mapping stack.

• Lecturer at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (August 2022 - January 2023, September 2024 - present)

• Teaching Assistant at Queen's University and Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (September 2017 - April 2024)

The courses are listed below.

ELEC  49X – Electrical and Computer Engineering Project (Head TA)
ELEC 474 – Machine Vision
ELEC 408 – Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
ELEC 451 - Digital Integrated Circuit Engineering
ELEC 371 – Microprocessor Interfacing and Embedded Systems
ELEC 280 – Fundamentals of Electromagnetics
ELEC 252 – Electronics I
GEE 293 – Managing Engineering Projects
GEE 523 – Integrated Navigation Systems - Tutoring lectures on visual, LiDAR, and radar odometry paradigms

• Automation Engineering Intern at Schneider Electric, Cairo, Egypt (August 2016 - September 2016)

• System Administrator Intern at ORASCOM Construction Industries, Cairo, Egypt (September 2015)

• Technical Intern at Etisalat Misr, Cairo, Egypt (July 2015 - August 2015)

Volunteer experience

• President of the Graduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student council (GECE), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (September 2020 - September 2021)

• VP of Finance (Treasurer) and Webmaster of the Graduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student council (GECE),  Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (May 2019 - September 2020)

• Reviewer:

• Conferences: IROS 2019, IROS 2021, UR 2021,  VTC (S2022, F2023, S2024, S2025).

• Journals:  

  • Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Journal canadien de génie électrique et informatique

  • IEEE Communications Letters

  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

Research

My research interests include computer vision, neural networks, deep learning, and advanced multi-sensor fusion and autonomy. Lately, my research has been especially focused on improving land vehicle localization in challenging GNSS environments with the aid of inertial sensors, perception systems as well as high-definition maps (HD maps). For my full list of publications, please check here.

Awards and Honors

• Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship, Smith Engineering, Queen's University, 2023.

• Queen's Graduate Award, School of Graduate Studies (SGS), Queen's University, 2019, 2021.

• Conference Travel Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Queen's University, 2019, 2020.

• SPIE Student Author Travel Grant, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2019, Awarded a $750 USD travel grant for an accepted research paper at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, February 2019.

• Mitacs Accelerate Award, MITACS, Project titled: Intelligent Vision-based Navigation Systems, January 2019.

• 10th International Conference of Mobile Mapping Technology, Mobile Mapping for Sustainable Development, 5th Best Poster Award for our bachelor’s graduation project: “Library Assistant System for the Blind and Physically Handicapped”, May 2017.

• 34th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC2017), International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Best Paper & Poster Award for the B.Sc.'s graduation project: “Library Assistant System for The Blind and Physically Handicapped”. March 2017.

Licenses and Certificates

• • Certificate in Professional Development for Postdocs, Queen’s University at Kingston, May 2025. (View)

  • Mini MBA, Graduate Management Consulting Association (GMCA), Queen's University, May 2023. (View)

  • Expanding Horizons Professional Development Workshop Series, School of Graduate Studies (SGS), Queen's University, October 2020. (View)

  • Research Partnerships & Commercialization Workshop, Queen's Partnerships and Innovation (QPI), Queen's University, October 2020. (View)

Professional Organizations

• • The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 2023-present.

  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-present.