PERSONAL DATA:
Full Name: Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Elhefnawi
Email: melhefnawi@ieee.org , melhefnawi@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 23/12/1947
EDUCATION:
• BSc with first degree honor, in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 1969.
• Master with first degree honor in Electronic Engineering, Antonin Zapotocky Military Academy of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, 1975.
• PhD with first degree honor in Electronic Engineering, Antonin Zapotocky Military Academy of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, 1977.
DISSERTATION:
“Sequential processing of radar signals in coloured noise environment”, Antonin Zapotocky Military Academy of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, 1977- awarded with first degree honor.
FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS:
1. Recognition Certificate by late president Gamal Abdelnaser in October 1964 for being the First on the secondary school exam students.
2. Endeavor Medal of first degree by late president Gamal Abdelnaser in May 1969.
3. Member of Engineering Syndicate of Egypt from 1969.
4. Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).
5. Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA).
Fig. 1 Science Day Ceremony of Egypt in 1964 attended by late president Gamal Abdelnaser
Fig. 2 Graduation Ceremony of Military Technical College in 1969
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
9/2013 – to date
Assistant Professor, Communications & Computer Department
• Graduation Projects
• Digital Communications
• Digital Signal Processing
• Communication Networks
• Radar Systems
6/1977 – 1/1984
Military Technical College, Cairo, EGYPT
Professor, Electronics Division
• Graduation Projects
• Programming
• Logic Circuits
• Electronics
• Digital Signal Processing
• Communication Theory
• Statistics
• Electronic Measurements
• Coding theory
• Information Management Systems
• Databases
• Data Structures
4/1969 – 4/1974
Lecturer
Military Technical Collage, Cairo, Egypt
Upon my graduation with excellent degree and first honor, I was appointed as an assistant lecture in the Electronic Division of the MTC.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
• Digital Communications
• Information Theory
• Digital Signal Processing
• Communication Networks
• Software Engineering
• Enterprise Architecture
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Somaya Hashem, Gamal Esmat, Wafaa Elakel, Shahira Habashy, Safaa Abdel Raouf, Samar Kamal Darweesh, Mohamad Anwar Soliman, Mohamed Elhefnawi, Mohamed Ibraheem Eladawy, and Mahmoud Elhefnawi, “Accurate Prediction of Advanced Liver Fibrosis using the Decision Tree Learning Algorithm in Chronic Hepatitis C Egyptian Patients”, Gastroenterology Research and Practice Journal, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, January 2016.
2. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “Chapter 13 ITIL Implementation in a Major Arabian Gulf Company: Approach and Challenges” of “Cases on Enterprise Information Systems and Implementation Stages: Learning from the Gulf Region”, ISBN 9781466622203, October, 2012, Business Science Reference, IGI Global, USA.
3. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “What is the Business Value of Quality Management”, HP Total Quality Management Conference, 7 March, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
4. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “IT Compliance Best Practices: Taking a Risk-based Approach”, MENA IT Governance, Risk and Compliance 2010, 3-5 May, 2010, Dubai, UAE.
5. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “An Integrated Approach for Governance, Risk and Compliance”, SECURECON - Information Security & Management Forum, 4 – 7 October 2009, IIRME, Dubai, UAE.
6. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “Balanced Score Card for Successful ITIL Implementation”, Sixth Middle East IT Services Management Conference, 21 – 26 March, 2009, IIRME, Dubai, UAE.
7. Mohamed Elhefnawi,” Expected benefits and roadmap to implementing ITIL - the keys to ITIL’s success”, Fifth Middle East IT Services Management Conference, 23 – 26 March, 2008, IIRME, Dubai, UAE.
8. Mohamed Elhefnawi, “Performance evaluation of decision feedback equalizer under mismatch”, NAECON 1983, Dayton, OH, May 17-19, 1983; volume 1 (A84-16526 05-01) New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1983, p. 528-532.
9. Mohamed M. Elhefnawi, ”Upper Limits on the Performance of the Optimum Processor in Mismatched Environment”, IEEE Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Sept. 1982, Volume: AES-18 Issue: 5, 648 – 654.
10. Mohamed M. Elhefnawi, “On the detection performance of the optimum processor in a background of a coloured mismatched interference”, International Radar Conference, April 28-30, 1980, page 417-420, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Arlington, VA, USA.
11. Ivan Vrana, Mohamed Mahmoud Elhefnawi, “On the Evaluation of Properties of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Statistically Dependent Observations”, KYBERNETIKA , volume 14 (1978), number 3, page 198 – 205.
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL COMMITTEE:
• Member of National IT Cloud Strategy Committee of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology – 2013 2015.
• Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).
REFERENCES:
• Doctor Eng. Mostafa Alrefaee, Ex-industry minister.
• Professor Doctor Engineer Ezzeldeen Zaqzouq, Ex vice dean of faculty of Engineering, Arabic Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport.
• Professor Doctor Ayman Eldosouki, Ex-chairman of Electronics Research Center.
• Professor Doctor Nabil Eldeeb, Ex-dean of Military Technical College.
