Postdoctoral Scholar yshoukry@eecs.berkeley.edu EECS, University of California, Berkeley, EE, University of California, Los Angeles, ESE, University of Pennsylvania
I am joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Deaprtment at UMD in Fall 2017 as an assistant professor. I am looking for bright PhD students with interests and expertise in cyber-physical systems, formal methods, control theory, and machine learning!
I am a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley/UCLA/UPenn. I work with Prof. George J. Pappas (UPenn), Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia (UC Berkeley), and Prof. Paulo Tabuada (UCLA). I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2015, where I worked with both Prof. Paulo Tabuada and Prof. Mani Srivastava. My main research interests lie in the general area of designing and implementing cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) with specific interest on security and privacy problems. My research draws on tools from both electrical engineering (e.g. control theory and optimization theory) and computer science (e.g. embedded systems and formal methods). I enjoy building new hardware artifacts, devise new algorithms that work well in practice as well as analyzing their performance from a theoretical point of view.
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Awards
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Best Demo Award:
16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), CPS Week, April 2017.
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Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award:
EE Department, UCLA, 2016.
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Best Paper Award:
ACM/IEEE 7th International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems (ICCPS), CPS Week, April 2016.
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Best Presentation in Session Award:
American Control Conference (ACC), July 2015.
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NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Investigator’s (NSF-ECI) Workshop Research
Ideas Competition:
This competition was held as part of the NSF-ECI workshop that took place in the CPS Week 2015. More than sixty early career investigators where divided into 15 teams. Each team presented new research ideas in a “shark tank” setting. Our research proposal named "SOCIUS: Socially Responsible Smart Cities" was selected by the competition committee to win the first place. My team (I, Vasu Raman-Caltech, Min Kyung Lee-CMU) represented the NSF-ECI in the Global Cities Team Challenge held in Washington DC, June 2015.
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Travel Grant Award:
From the HiCoNS 2013 conference committee, April 2013
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Side-Channel Analysis Workshop" Tuition Scholarship:
From Cryptography Research Inc to attend a one-day workshop in the field of side-channel attacks and analysis, April 2012.
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Preliminary Exam Fellowship:
For ranking top on UCLA Preliminary Exam in Signals and Systems area, February 2012.
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Chancellor Prize Fellowship:
One of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by UCLA. It is offered to newly admitted graduate students in recognition of their qualifications, Summer 2011, 2012.
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Graduate Division Fellowship:
From Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Academic year 2011-2012.
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Young Author Support:
From IFAC World Congress conference in Milano, Italy, August 2011.
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Distinction Award, Graduation with Honors:
Computer and Systems Engineering, Ain Shams University, September 2007.
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Egyptian Government Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies:
Five years in a row, Ain Shams University, 2002-2007.
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Engineering Innovation Award:
For acquiring 2nd place in the Engineering Innovation contest, held by Ain Shams University, December 2006.