Dr Mohamed El-Zawawy

Extraordinary senior researcher

Office: B 427
Phone: (+372) 620 4220
Fax: (+372) 620 4151
Email: elzawawy(at)cs(dot)ioc(dot)ee
maelzawawy(at)gmail.com

I got my PhD from the School of Computer Science , University of Birmingham under the supervision of Prof Achim Jung . My PhD thesis is available from here.

Research interests

Education

Awards and Honors

School of Computer Science, Birmingham University: Full Ph.D. studentship from October 2003 to October 2006.
Cairo University: Prof. Mohammed Morsy Award (highest score among Math and Computer Science graduates), 1999.

Background

I got my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

Publications

Semantic spaces in Priestley form. Mohamed El-Zawawy. Ph.D. thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Submitted in October 2006. PDF File
Priestley duality for strong proximity lattices. Mohamed El-Zawawy and Achim Jung. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXII), eds S. Brookes and M. Mislove, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 158, 2006, pages 199-217. PDF File
Priestley representations for strong proximity lattices and stably compact spaces. Mohamed El-Zawawy and Achim Jung. Technical Report CSR-05-3, University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, April 2005
Efficient Techniques for Mining Spatial Databases. Mohamed El-Zawawy . M.Sc. thesis, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Submitted in July 2002. The thesis was refereed by Professor Akifumi MAKINOUCHI as an external examiner. The report by Prof. MAKINOUCHI on the M. Sc. thesis is available.
Algorithm for Spatial Clustering with Obstacles. Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi and Mohamed El-Zawawy. In Proc. 2002 ICICIS Int. Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS’02), Cairo, Egypt, June 2002. PDF File
Clustering with Obstacles in Spatial Databases. Mohamed El-Zawawy and Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi. In Proc. 2001 IEEE Int. Symposium of Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT’01), pages 420-425, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2001. PDF File

Academic Experience

November, 2008 - present: Extraordinary senior researcher -- Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
June, 2007 - present: Lecturer -- Division of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Currently on a sabbatical).
October, 2003 - October, 2006: Graduate Student --School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK.
October, 2003 - January, 2007: Demonstrator -- School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK.
September, 1999 - September 2003: Teaching Assistant -- Division of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Schools, Courses and Conferences

The 14th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS). Palmse, Estonia, March 1-6, 2009. http://www.cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2009/

The 14th Theory Days. Kääriku, Estonia, January 30 to February 1, 2009. http://www.cs.ut.ee/~varmo/tday-kaariku/
Winter School on Verification of Object-Oriented Programs. Viinistu, Estonia, 25-29 January, 2009. http://viinistu.cost-ic0701.org/
The 20th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory, NWPT '08.Tallinn, Estonia, 19-21 November 2008. http://cs.ioc.ee/nwpt08/
The 21nd Annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXI). Birmingham, UK, May 2005. http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps21.htm
Midland Graduate School 2005 - (MGS 2005). Birmingham, UK, April 11 - 15, 2005. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/mgs/
Midland Graduate School 2004 - APPSEM Spring School 2004. Nottingham, UK, 29 March to 2 April, 2004. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs/

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