CURRICULUM VITAE of Dr Ahmed EL-MAHDY

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE of Dr Ahmed EL-MAHDY Nationality: Egyptian Mobile no.: Education Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England Manchester University is ranked 41 in Shanghai Ranking 2013 (and 37 in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences). Degree awarded on November 2001, by the Computer Science Department, University of Manchester, England, UK Worked with the Computer Architecture Group in the JAMAICA Single- Chip Multi- Threaded Multi-Processor Project ( Awarded a teaching assistance-ship and an ORS scholarship The Ph.D. thesis title is A Vector Architecture for Multimedia Java Applications Developed a static Java translator for JAMAICA processor M.Sc. in Computer Science and Automatic Control, Egypt Degree awarded by the Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University Awarded a teaching assistance-ship throughout the M.Sc. study period Scored distinction in all the six taught courses The M.Sc. thesis title is Processor Performance Models B.Sc. in Computer Science and Automatic Control, Egypt Degree awarded by the Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University Final graduation degree is distinction with degree of honour Ranked top student of the department and the faculty Graduation group project is developing a digital circuit simulator Research Areas: Multicore architecture, analytical performance modelling, dynamic compilation, architectural support for multimedia applications, GPUs, high performance computation, and cloud computing; more recently, unconventional HPC on mobiles phone, using mobile GPUs. Dr El-Mahdy has recently built a fully working cloud computing system, with a total of 112 cores, all based on open source software. He is also supervising master and doctorate students working on the following topics: Big data processing Parallelising compilers for embedded devices (STDF)

2 Real-time crash detection using embedded GPUs (ITIDA Grant) HPC performance modelling on the Cloud Load-balancing Code obfuscation via JIT compilation for the cloud (IMHOTEP Grant, INRIA, France) Secure execution for the cloud Past projects: Analytical modelling for high performance cloud (Amazon Grant) Large scale dynamic programming on GPUs (IBM Grant) Face recognition on embedded platforms using mobile GPUs (ITAC Grant) Porting the IBM Jikes RVM into the Jamaica processor (UK) Parallel debugging and program verification Partitioned cache design for multithreaded architecture Dynamic compilation for multimedia applications FPGA-implementation and analysis of a CMP processor FPGA-implementation and analysis of cache coherency protocols and transactional memories Embedded cycle-accurate simulator generator Employment: 2012 present: Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, and Associate Professor at Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University : Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology : Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Alexandria University : Research Associate at the Advanced Processing Technologies Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester : Teaching Assistant at the Computer Science Department, University of Manchester : Teaching Assistant at the Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. Positions: Former Acting Chair Person of the Computer Science and Engineering Department Parallel Computing Lab Director Associate Professor at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), and Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. Former Chief Executive Officer of the Alexandria University E-Learning Project, and centre's manager Former Visiting Scientist at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies in Cairo Member of the steering committee of establishing E-JUST University

3 Technical program co-chair of the First and Second International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore Technologies ( Technical program committee member of the 23rd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2010 ( Professional Societies Association for Computing Machinery, 1996 till present Alexandria Student Chapter Sponsor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996 till present Consultancy: Senior Consultant with Brightskies Technologies, Alexandria, Egypt o High Performance computing including code optimization on Intel X86 platforms and GPGPUs. o Design and implementation of a compiler project for a new embedded automotive software tool. Teaching: Postgraduates: E-JUST: CSE503: Parallel Computing, CSE601: Parallel Processors, CSE701: Project-Based Learning in Computer Systems, CSE602: Advanced Compilers, CSE599: Binary Code Translation, CSE510: Big Data Alexandria University: Computer Architecture, Software-Hardware Co- Design (introduced the new module), and Parallel Programming Undergraduates: Alexandria University: HS7-416 Technical Writing-1, HS7-426 Technical Writing-2, Computer Performance Evaluation, Digital Logic Design, Computer Architecture, and Introduction to Computers and Programming Alexandria Institute of Technology: CE321 Systems Programming, CE404 Computing Systems Evaluation, CE322 Operating Systems, and CE314 Computer Architecture Arab Academy for Science and Technology: Technology (AAST): CC410 Systems Programming, and Distributed Systems Publications: 1. Journals/book chapters/patents: Essam Elgizawy, Tetsuji Ogawa, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Real-Time Large-Scale Map Matching using Mobile Phone, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, accepted in Ahmed El-Mahdy and Ossama Talat, An Efficient Load-Balancing Method and System for Tree-Based Applications, U.S. Patent Application No. 5/285,564, 5 October 2016.

4 Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham Elshishiny, Prefetching Data, U.S. Patent No. 9,274,965, 1 March Ghada Abozaid, Arnaud Tisserand, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Yasutaka Wada, Towards FHE in Embedded Systems: A Preliminary Co-Design Space Exploration of a HW/SW Very Large Multiplier, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (IEEE-ESL) Abozaid, G.;, vol. 7, no. 3, pp doi: /LES Sept Ahmed H. El-Mahdy and Hisham E. El-Shishiny. "Transforming a digital image from a low dynamic range (LDR) image to a high dynamic range (HDR) image." U.S. Patent No. 9,020, Apr Ahmed H. El-Mahdy and Hisham E. El-Shishiny. "Compressing a multivariate dataset." U.S. Patent No. 9,009, Apr Samra, Sameh, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Yasutaka Wada. "A Linear Time and Space Algorithm for Optimal Traffic-Signal Duration at an Intersection." Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on 16.1 (2015): (Ranked 2 in JCR2012, with Impact Factor of 3.064) A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, System and method for prefetching data, Taiwan Patent I453663, 21-Sept A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, High-dynamic range video tone mapping, UK Patent GB , 14-Jan A. El-Mahdy, and H. El-Shishiny, Selectively Transforming A Multi- Dimensional Array US Patent 8,554,013, 18-Sept A. El-Mahdy and El-Shishiny, Selectively Transforming a Multi-Dimensional Array, U.S. Patent 8,422,821, 16-Apr A. El-Mahdy and El-Shishiny, Transformation of a Video Image From a High Dynamic Range Image To a Low Dynamic Range Image, U.S. Patent , 18-Sept A. El-Mahdy and H. ElShishiny, Spatially selective transformation of a spatially varying optical characteristic of an image in an array of pixels, U.S. Patent , 17-Apr A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, Method and system for transforming a digital image from a low dynamic range (LDR) image to a high dynamic range (HDR) image, Taiwan Patent Application , 1-Nov Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny, High Dynamic Range Video Tone Mapping, US Patent Application , Published 14/6/2012. A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, Load Balancing for Image Processing using Multiple Processors, U.S. Patent , 8-Nov, A. El-Mahdy, A. El-Moursy, and H. ElShishiny, Multi-Core Processors for 3D Array Transposition By Logically Retrieving In-Place Physically Transposed Sub-Array Data, U.S. Patent , 12-Jul Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny, System and Method for Prefetching Data, US Patent Application 12/335,077, Published 17/6/2010.

5 A. El-Mahdy and H. El-Shishiny, "High-quality HDR rendering technologies for emerging applications," IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 54, no. 6, p. 8:1-15, Nov (Ranked 1 in JCR 2010). Ahmed El-Mahdy, Ian Watson, and Greg Wright. Java Machine and Integrated Circuit Architecture (JAMAICA). Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mario I. Wolczko, Book chapter, Java Microarchitectures. Kluwer , pages , ( Kluwer Academic Publishers) Greg Wright, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Ian Watson. Dynamic Java Threads on the JAMAICA Single-Chip Multiprocessor. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mario I. Wolczko, Book chapter, Java Microarchitectures. Kluwer , pages , ( Kluwer Academic Publishers). 2. Conferences Sahar Elkazaz, Mohamed E. Hussein, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Towards Landmine Detection Using Ubiquitous Satellite Imaging, In Proceeding of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 16), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 12-14, (to appear) Mostafa Abbas and Ahmed El-Mahdy, Approximate Data Dependence Graph Generation Using Adaptive Sampling, In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Software Tools and Tool Infrastructures (PSTI 2016), August 16-19, Philadelphia, Osama Talaat and Ahmed El-Mahdy, An Efficient Load Balancing Method for Tree Algorithms, In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2016), July, Toulouse, France. Reem Elkhouly, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Amr Elmasry, Optimality Analysis of If-Conversion Transformation, In proceedings of 24nd High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2016), April 3-6, Pasadena, CA, USA, Reem Elkhouly, Keiji Kimura, and Ahmed El-Mahdy, If-Conversion Optimization using NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies, In the First International Workshop on Program Transformation for Programmability in Heterogeneous Architectures (PROHA 16), held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), 12th March ( Abdallah Saad, Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny. Towards Analytical Performance Modeling for HPC on the Cloud, In Proceedings of the ISM HPCCON 2015/ISM HPC on R Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 9-12, (Invited talk) Muhammad Hataba, Reem Elkhouly, and Ahmed El-Mahdy,"Diversified Remote Code Execution Using Dynamic Obfuscation of Conditional Branches", In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Security and Privacy of Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing Systems (ESP- DGC2015) held on conjunction with the 35 Th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 29th - July 2nd, Abdallah Saad, Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny. Performance modelling and evaluation of SPECMPI on the cloud, Presented in 3rd

6 International IBM Cloud Academy Conference (ICACON 2015), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Budapest, Hungary, May 21-23, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Essam Algizawi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Hisham El-Shishiny, Mohamed Baddar, Keji Kimura, High Resolution Traffic Maps Generation Using Cellular Big Data, D4D Challenge held in conjunction with NetMob 2015, Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 8-10, 2015 (Poster). Ghada Abozaid, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Design Space Exploration for a Co- Designed Accelerator Supporting Homomorphic Encryption, The 20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS ), to be held at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, during May Reem Elkhouly, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Amr Elmasry, 2-Bit Branch Predictor Modeling Using Markov Model, International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering, Berkeley, USA, March 5-6, Muhammad Hataba, A. El-Mahdy, E. Rohou, "OJIT: A Novel Obfuscation Approach Using Standard Just-In-Time Compiler Transformations", Accepted in DCE 2015 workshop co-located with HiPEAC 2015, 20 Jan, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherland, ISBN " ", ACM Digital Library. Mostafa Abbas and Ahmed El-Mahdy, An Efficient Data Dependence Profiling Method for Parallelisation on Embedded Systems, Presented at the Third International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computers, Fukuoka, Japan, March 16 18, Sahar El-Kazzaz and Ahmed El-Mahdy, A Hadoop-Based Framework for Large-Scale Landmine Detection Using Ubiquitous Big Satellite Imaging Data, To appear in the proceedings of the 23 rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP2015), Turku, Finland, March Ahmed El-Mahdy, Hisham ElShishiny, Essam Algizawy, "Smart Traffic Framework Based on Dynamic Mobile Clusters," Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on, 8-10 Oct Sara Elshobaky, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Erven Rohou, Layla A. A. El-Sayed, and Mohamed Nazih ElDerini, "A Lightweight Incremental Analysis and Profiling Framework for Embedded Devices", 17th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, June 10-11, 2014, Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, Germany. Sahar Elkazzaz and Ahmed El-Mahdy, "Large-Scale Landmine Detection Using Ubiquitous Satellite Imaging: A Preliminary Study", International Workshop on Enabling Science From Big Image Data, The Second ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing, May 27-31, 2014, Stanford, CA, USA. Rasha Omar, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Erven Rohou, "Arbitrary Control-Flow Embedding into Multiple Threads for Obfuscation: A Preliminary Complexity and Performance Analysis", Second International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing, held in conjunction with the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) June 3, 2014, Kyoto, Japan. Ahmed El-Mahdy and Radwa Elsersey, A Large-Scale Mobile Facial Recognition System using Embedded GPUs, In proceedings of 22nd High

7 Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2014), April 13-16, Tampa, FL, USA, Yusuf, Marwa, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Erven Rohou. "On-Stack Replacement to Improve JIT-based Obfuscation-A Preliminary Study." International Japan- Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computers Saad, Abdallah, and Ahmed El-Mahdy. "Network Topology Identification for Cloud Instances." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2013), 30-Sept -2 Oct, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp Ghada Abozaid, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Yasutaka Wada "A Scalable Multiplier for Arbitrary Large Numbers Supporting Homomorphic Encryption," Digital System Design (DSD), th Euromicro Conference on, 4-6 September M. Hataba, A. El-Mahdy, A. Shoukry, E. Rohou, OJIT: A Novel Secure Remote Execution Technology By Obfuscated Just- In-Time Compilation, European LLVM Conference, April, Paris, France, Mohamed Hataba and Ahmed El-Mahdy, Cloud Protection by Obfuscation: Techniques and Metrics, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, and Internet Computing, M. A. Khamis, W. Gomaa, A. El-Mahdy, A. Shoukry, "Adaptive traffic control system based on Bayesian probability interpretation," 2012 Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (JEC-ECC), pp , 6-9 March doi: /JEC-ECC Ahmed El-Mahdy, Frequency-Domain-based Performance Analysis for the Cell BE Processor, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES'2011), Nov , IEEE, Cairo, Egypt, Shahira Abousamra, Ahmed El-Mahdy, Salah Selim, Fair and Adaptive Online Set-Based Cache Partitioning, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES'2011), Nov , IEEE, Cairo, Egypt, (Best Paper) S. Samra, A. El-Mahdy, W. Gomaa, Y. Wada, and A. Shoukry, Efficient Parallel Implementations of Controlled Optimization of Traffic Phases, in Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Part I: 11th International Conference, ICA3PP 2011, Melbourne, Australia, October 24-26, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, vol. 7016, Y. Xiang, A. Cuzzocrea, M. Hobbs, and W. Zhou, Eds. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, pp Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny. Efficient Parallel Selective Separable-Kernel Convolution on Heterogeneous Processors. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2010, Article number 7: 2nd International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore / Manycore Technologies, IFMT'10; Saint-Malo, France, 19 June DOI= Sara El-Shobaky, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Ahmed El-Nahas. Automatic Vectorization Using Dynamic Compilation and Tree Pattern Matching Technique in Jikes RVM. In Proceedings of Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems, ICOOOLPS 09 (Genova, Italy, July 6, 2009). ACM, New York, NY.

8 Ahmed El-Mahdy and Hisham El-Shishiny. An efficient load-balancing algorithm for image processing applications on multicore processors. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Volume 356, 2008, Article number 8: 1st International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore / Manycore Technologies, IFMT'08; Cairo; November DOI= Ali El-Moursy, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Hisham El-Shishiny. An efficient inplace 3D transpose for multicore processors with software managed memory hierarchy. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Volume 356, 2008, Article number 10: 1st International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore / Manycore Technologies, IFMT'08; Cairo; November DOI= Ahmed El-Mahdy and Ian Watson. A two dimensional vector architecture for multimedia. In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Greg Wright, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Ian Watson. Dynamic Java threads on the Jamaica single-chip multiprocessor. In Second Annual Workshop on Hardware Support for Objects and Microarchitectures for Java in conjunction with ICCD 00, pages 1 5, Austin, Texas, I. Watson, G. Wright, and A. El-Mahdy. VLSI architecture using lightweight threads (VAULT) - choosing the instruction set architecture. In Workshop on Hardware Support for Objects and Microarchitectures for Java in conjunction with ICCD 99, pages 40 44, Austin, Texas, Theses Ahmed El-Mahdy. A Vector Architecture for Multimedia Java Applications. PhD Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Ahmed El-Mahdy. Processor Performance Models. M.Sc. thesis, Dept. of Computer Science and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, May Honours and Awards Obtained a grant from IBM supporting Smart City research in terms of two PhD fellowships and one Faculty Award. Awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award for developing analytical performance models for the Cell processor. Invited to serve on the Higher Committee for Establishing the Egyptian- Japanese university, Served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the first and second International Forum on Multicore/Manycore Technologies, IFMT 08/ 10. Served on the Program Committee for the International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS, since Refereed the prestigious Software: Practice and Experience Journal, Wiley Publishers. Has Been Donated the novel SPARC T1 Processor FPGA-development board from SUN Microsystems for his research.

9 Organised with IBM CAS the first multicore technologies conference in the Middle East region (IFMT 08). Organised with IBM CAS a 4-day Cell Programming Tutorial for senior and graduate students at Alexandria University. Funded Research Principal Investigator: Thoth, IMHOTEP Project Principal Investigator: A Lightweight On Phone Dynamic Parallelization System: Enabling High Performance Computation on Mobile Phones, STDF (100,000EGP for 1 year), Principal Investigator: Blink: A Smartphone based Automatic Accident Detection and Notification System, ITIDA, CFP87, (1 Million EGP, for 20Months), Principal Investigator: ITIDA ITAC fund ($20,000 for one year), Principal Investigator: Amazon Cloud Research Grant ($2000 for two years), Principal Investigator: IMHOTEP Research Grant ($10,000 for two years), Principal Investigator: Smart City Research, IBM, ($30,000 for one year, renewable for three years), Principal Investigator: Amazon Cloud Education Grant ($600 for one year), Principal Investigator: Cell Performance Tool Set, IBM Faculty Award ($10,000 for one year), 2007.