Mohammed El-Abd, PhD
Dean - CEAS
Professor of Computer Engineering
Prof. Mohammed El-Abd (IEEE SM’16) is a professor of computer engineering at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). He serves as the Dean for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at AUK. Prof. 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. He has vast experience in assessment and accreditation and is a certified ABET Program Evaluator. Prof. Mohammed has over 100 publications including journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and abstracts.
He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO), and Computers & Electrical Engineering. He was also a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Education. He is the founding chair of the IEEE Symposium on Cooperative Metaheuristics (IEEE-SCM) and was the general co-chair of the 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). 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.
Prof. El-Abd has been named, since 2020, 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.