About

I digitally engineer the decentralised human-AI ecosystem with a focus on Human-Swarm Teaming in Safety Critical Domains (particularly, UTM/ATM). As a Full Professor at UNSW Canberra, I provide academic leadership in research, teaching and services. I am a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Australian Computer Society (FACS), UK Operational Research Society (FORS), the Institute of Managers and Leaders (FIML), and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). My Erdos Number is 4: Hussein Abbass (coauthored MR3459093 with) Roel Leus (coauthored MR3736150 with) Yves Crama (coauthored MR2372582 with) Alan J. Hoffman (coauthored MR0565328 with) Paul Erdős. I am the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE-TAI) and served as the Editor-in-Chief (2020-2024). I was an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2024). I serve as a member of the Proceedings of IEEE Board (2025-now), a Senior Associate Editor for the ACM Computing Surveys (2022-now), as an Associate Editor on a number of journals.

Artificial Intelligence - Autonomous Systems - Quantum Computations - Humans - Swarm - Ethics - Trust

MR3459093

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE)

Australian Computer Society (FACS)

Operational Research Society (FORS)

Institute of Managers and Leaders (FIML)

Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

2000 PhD, Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology.

Thesis Title: Computational intelligence techniques for decision making: with applications to the dairy industry Supervisors: Michael Towsey, Julius Van der Werf, Erhan Kozan, and Joachim Diederich

1997 M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, AI Dept., University of Edinburgh, (Awarded best thesis in AI).

Thesis Title: An Intelligent Tool for Process Synthesis Supervisors: Geraint Wiggins, Bill Morton and Ramachandran Lakshmanan

1995 PhD. Qualifying Exam: Optimisation, Stochastic Processes, Modelling & Simulation, Cairo University

1995 Masters by Research, multi-objective constraint logic programming, Dept. of Computer Science, Cairo University

Thesis Title: Goal Programming in the frame of Constraint Logic Programming Supervisor: Mohamed Rasmy and Reem Bahgat

1994 BBus, Cairo University

1993 Pre-Master, Operations Research, Dept. of Computer Science, Cairo University

1992 Post-Graduate Diploma, Operations Research, Dept. of Computer Science, Cairo University

1990 BA, Cairo University

2017-Now CASA Licensed Remote Pilot

2022-2025 Accredited Mental Health First Aider

19/06/2020 Expert Witness Training, UNSW Division of Enterprise

05/04/2019 Anti-Bribery and Corruption, IEEE Training

05/04/2019 Code of Conduct, IEEE Training

05/04/2019 Conflicts of Interest, IEEE Training

05/04/2019 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), IEEE Training

05/04/2019 Preventing Discrimination and Harassment, IEEE Training

05/04/2019 Sanctions, Embargoes, Export Controls and Anti-Boycott Laws, IEEE Training

17/02/2018 Research Integrity Assessment, UNSW

2015 Ergonomics, UNSW

2012 Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, Grant Assessment Training, ARC, Australia

2011 Training your voice, UNSW

2011 Graduate Diploma, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australia

2011 Managing Difficult Conversations, UNSW Staff Development

2010 Excellence of Research Australia Training, ARC, Australia

2010 Media Awareness Training, UNSW Staff Development

2008 Leading and Managing Projects Training, UNSW Staff Development

2006 Equity Training, UNSW Staff Development

2007-Now Professor of Information Technology, UNSW-Canberra, Australia

2026 (Feb-Sept) Visiting Professor – Air Traffic Management Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2024-2025 Chair of the Corporate Governance Board, Opulence Institute of Higher Education

2021-2022 Acting Deputy Head of School – People, UNSW-Canberra, Australia

2014 (Feb-Dec) Visiting Professor – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – National University of Singapore, Singapore

2013 (Oct) Visiting Professor – National Defence Academy of Japan

2006-2010 Director, Defence & Security Applications Research Centre (DSARC), UNSW, Australia

2005 Visiting Scholar – Department of General Engineering - University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, USA

2003 John-Yu Visiting Fellow – Department of Computer Science - Imperial College London, UK

2000-2007 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor, UNSW-Canberra, Australia

1994-2000 Lecturer, Dept CS, Cairo University, Egypt

1992-1994 IT System Administrator, TV Union, Egypt

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Awarded in 2020 for contributions to evolutionary learning and optimization.

Fellow, Australian Computer Society Awarded in 2008 for professional standing in computing and information technology.

Fellow, Operational Research Society Awarded in 2011 for professional standing in operations research and decision science.

Fellow, Institute of Managers and Leaders Awarded in 2016 for professional standing in management and leadership.

Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors Completed in 2011, providing formal grounding in governance and director responsibilities.

UNSW John-Yu fellowship to visit Imperial College London, 2003

Rank Xerox prize for best Master thesis in AI, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, UK, 1997

Certificate of appreciation, a top student, the day of science, Cairo Uni., Egypt, 1995

Prof. Ibrahim Farag prize for the top student in the Operations Research Diploma, Cairo Uni., Egypt, 1992