The Fanos Research Lab at McMaster University focuses on the design, analysis, and deployment of intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems-on-Chip (iCPSoCs). iCPSoCs research is multidisciplinary by nature. As the figure illustrates, CPS are found in many critical domains such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Cars,
Railways, Internet-of-Things (loT), and healthcare systems. To build efficient CPS for these domains, we are interested in research areas both at the infrastructure-level (e.g. hardware, software applications, compilers, and operating systems) as well as at the foundational-level (e.g. HW/SW codesign, artificial intelligence, scheduling theory, and security).
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the ECE Department, McMaster University. Before joining McMaster, I was an Assistant Professor at University of Guelph. Before that, I was a Soc R&D engineer at Intel. I obtained my PhD from University of Waterloo in 2017 and my MSc. From Cairo University in 2012.
BSc Cairo University
MSc Cairo University
PhD University of Waterloo
2020 ECRTS Outstanding Paper Award, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)
2018 IEEE TCRTS Best Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
2018 ACM SIGBED Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Embedded Systems Week
2014-2017 Faculty of Engineering Award (FOE), 2 times, University of Waterloo
2012-2017 Graduate Research Scholarship (GRS) University of Waterloo
2016 Doctoral Thesis Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
2012-2015 International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo
2009-2012 Graduate Fellowship, Cairo University 2009 ITAC Graduation Project Award, Egyptian Ministry of Information Technology
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