### VT-MENA — Research Assistant
*Alexandria, Egypt | July – October 2015*

Research internship on the **"Cognitive Radio Cloud"** project — a cloud-based testbed enabling a collaborative environment for wireless communications research, with a focus on cognitive radio.

- Designed, conducted, and documented **network performance benchmarking experiments** between virtual machines running on **KVM** and **VMWare** hypervisors.
- Measured throughput, delay, and jitter using **iPerf**, CRUDE, and other network tools, with all experiments automated via UNIX shell scripting.

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### VT-MENA — Software Developer Intern
*Alexandria, Egypt | June – December 2014*

Research internship on **indoor localization** under Prof. Moustafa Youssef, working with WiFi signals and Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons.

- Built a **Wall Extraction Tool** in Java for graduate researchers to plot walls and beacon locations on floor plans, simulate intersecting signals, and calculate interference and signal strength through walls. Used Java Swing for GUI, XML for project persistence, and documented extensively with JavaDocs.
- Collected WiFi signal strength data to construct fingerprint maps for indoor positioning research.