Mohammed El-Abd, PhD
Dean - CEAS
Professor of Computer Engineering
Dr. Mohammed El-Abd (IEEE SM’16) is a professor of computer engineering at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). He serves as the associate dean for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at AUK. Dr. Mohammed obtained his Ph.D. from the ECE Department at the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada in 2008. He obtained his B.Eng. and M.Sc. from the ECE Department at Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He was awarded the AUK-Dartmouth fellowship in 2012. Dr. Mohammed published more than 15 journal articles and over 70 conference publications, abstracts, and book chapters. He is an associate editor for the Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO) journal by Elsevier since 2016 and was a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Education. He is the founding chair of the IEEE Symposium on Cooperative Metaheuristics (IEEE-SCM). He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and IEEE Access. As a co-author, he was awarded the best paper award in the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference in 2015 and the best poster award in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications in 2017. Dr. El-Abd was named among the top 2% of researchers in artificial intelligence as per the Stanford University–Elsevier list. His research interests span the areas of meta-heuristics, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, cooperative algorithms, continuous optimization, large-scale optimization, real-world applications, Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart cities, and engineering education.