About Mr. Prof. Ashraf Hassan Abdelwahab Ph.D.

Prof. Ashraf Abdelwahab is a professor of computer engineering, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. He received his M. Sc. in 1988, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in the area of Artificial Intelligence (knowledge representation schemes), and in 1992 he received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms. He has published over 60 technical papers in National, and International journals and conferences in the areas of Evolutionary Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. Beside his research activities, Dr. Abdelwahab used to teach Computer Science courses in Egyptian and American universities.

Dr. Abdelwahab was a member of the E-government Initiative team since its launch in 2001 managing back-office applications, ICT4D tools, and participating in different related committees. In 2006, he was promoted to Deputy to the Minister of State for Administrative Development, responsible of supervising, monitoring and coordinating E-government and organizational development initiatives, and the coordination with other ministries and international organizations.