## Education

**Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University** — Alexandria, Egypt *(June 2016)*
B.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering
- Cumulative Grade: Very Good with Degree of Honor (81.75%)
- Capstone Project: *"Learning Semantics with Deep Learning for Cross Language Information Retrieval (English-Arabic)"*
  - Built an integrated Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) framework capable of receiving Arabic queries and returning ranked relevant English documents from a parallel text corpus.
  - Proposed system won a **competition organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Communications**, funded with 10,000 EGP.
  - Processed over **5.5 million Wikipedia articles (65 GB)** across English and Arabic corpora; wrote a Python multiprocessing wrapper that reduced Arabic NLP preprocessing from days to under **90 minutes** on a high-performance server.
  - Research published at KDIR 2016 (see publications.md).

**Arab Academy for Science and Technology** — Alexandria, Egypt *(June 2011)*
International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE)