Khaled Fouad Elsayed, Ph.D.

I am a professor of Communications Networks and the chair (since December 2020) of 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.

I am also technical fellow with Si-Vision since Oct. 2015. I established the embedded software/protocol stacks division and worked on the architecture design for the Bluetooth Low Energy Link Layer Controller and the IEEE 802.15.4/BLE combo chip architecture. My work resulted in contributions to the Bluetooth standard since Core version 5.1 via the Core working group, and the the BLE Next Generation Audio and Auracast via the Generic Audio and Hearing Aid working groups. I also contributed to profiles defined in the direction finding and mesh working groups.

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.

• [US Patent] Nov. 2024: US patent 12143195/B1 titled "Angle of arrival (AoA) determination for Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE)" co-authored with Khaled Ismail Mahmoud has been issued. The patent provides an enhanced method for measuring the angle-of-arrival of an incoming signal to enhance indoor navigation and localization using Bluetooth/BLE.
• [NCTA 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention] November 2024: The paper "End-to-End Steering for Autonomous Vehicles via Conditional Imitation Co-Learning" co-authored with Mahmoud Kishky and Dr. Hesham Eraqi won the Best Paper Honorable Mention as announced at the closing session of 16th NCTA 2024 conference.
• [Journal Paper] March 2024: The paper "Enhancing autonomous driving by exploiting thermal object detection through feature fusion" co-authored with my M.Sc. student Moataz El-Tahan is published in the Springer International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research.