Ahmed H. Zahran, PhD

Ahmed H. Zahran is an assistant professor at the Electronics and Electrical Communications department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He is also affiliated with Nile University. He previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the MISL group at the Computer Science Department, University College Cork, Ireland. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Ben Liang. He received his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Electronics and Electrical Communication Department at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 2000 and 2002 respectively.

His research interests span different topics in wireless mobile networking such as multimedia streaming, cognitive networking, energy efficient networking, mobility and resource management, and modeling and performance evaluation. His research received several awards including best paper award in IFIP Networking 2005 conference, spot light paper for IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing (June 2010), and UCC commercialization award.

He served as a technical reviewer for various journals and conferences including, but not limited to, the IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communication Mag., ICC, WCNC, VTC, Globecom, IFIP Networking. He served on the organization committee and the technical program committee of several conference such as IEEE PIMRC 2011, IEEE CCNC 2009 & 2010.