Khaled Fouad Elsayed, Ph.D.

I am a professor of Communications Networks and and the head of the Computing Group in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering in Cairo University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 1995 where I worked in the Center for Advanced Communications and Computations. I obtained my M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics and B.Sc. (honors) in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1990 and 1987 respectively.

From Nov. 2007 till June 2010 I was the chief-technical officer of SySDSoft (acquired by Intel in March 2011) embedded wireless division, and from June 2005 till Nov. 2007 the technical director for the mobile WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e protocol stack development. From 1995 to 1997, I was a member of scientific staff with Bell-Northern Research/Nortel Labs in Richardson, TX where my work focused on the MTX-CDMA wireless product and first radio-over-fiber systems using ATM technology .

Previously, I have also worked with ITWorx and WTMEA.  My work with ITWorx as chief architect resulted in the realization of the NetCelera network appliance that was acquired by SwanLabs and eventually by F5 Networks.  I held adjunct positions with the  American University in Cairo and the Egyptian National Telecom Institute.

My consulting assignments included work for the United Nations World Food Programme, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, Telecom Egypt, Cairo University, Ain Shams University, ISIS International, International Electronics/Bahgat Group in Egypt, AmerNet, Broadband Technologies and Alphatronix/Auspex Systems in the USA, and WiMatek Systems in Canada. I have also served as an expert evaluator and panelist for the European Commission in Brussels for evaluating research proposals submitted to the EU FP7/ICT, FP7/PEOPLE, FP6/IST, FP5/IST, and  TEMPUS programs. I also serve as expert evaluator for the ITIDA ITAC, NTRA, and STDF research programs.

My current research work focuses on radio resource management and architectures for 4G/5G wireless systems; devising scalable standards-based Internet of Things systems; and applications of machine learning in telecommunications. I have published extensively in refereed international journals and conferences. I was an editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine-Internet Technology Series from Nov. 1998 till Dec. 2002. I have also been a member of the technical program committees and session chair for several IEEE, IFIP, and ITC conferences. I was the technical program co-chair for the IFIP MWCN’2003 conference in Singapore. I am a senior member of IEEE and member of IFIP TC6.3 workgroup (Performance of Communication Systems).

On the personal side, I enjoy traveling, photography, outdoor sports, reading history books, spending time with my family, and free/aimless Internet browsing discovering new concepts and interesting facts about the amazing world we live in.

• [Conference Paper] December 19, 2019: Our paper "A Neural Network Based Visible Light Communication Indoor Positioning System for Moving Users" was awarded best paper award from the IEEE SmartNet 2019 held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Dec. 2019.
• [Journal Paper] March 2020: Our paper "Interference Mitigation using Angular Diversity Receiver with Efficient Channel Estimation in MIMO VLC" is accepted for publication in IEEE Access.