Tamer ElBatt is a Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECE from Cairo University and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was with U.S. industry R&D, e.g., HRL Laboratories, Malibu, California and Lockheed Martin ATC, Sunnyvale, California. From 2009 to 2023, he served at the EECE Dept., Cairo University, as an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. He held an adjunct appointment with Nile University, Egypt and served as the Director of the wireless research center (WINC), 2012-2017. In 2017, he joined the CSE Department, AUC and later served as the Graduate Director and Associate Chair. He published more than 150 papers in major journals and international conferences. Dr. ElBatt holds seven issued U.S. patents and one WIPO patent.
Dr. ElBatt served on the organizing and technical committees of numerous, major conferences, e.g., TPC Executive Vice Chair of ICCSPA’24, TPC Co-Chair of ICCSPA’22, Track Co-Chair of ITC-Egypt’22, Demos Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom’13 and Publication Co-Chair of IEEE Globecom’12 and Mobiquitous’14. He serves on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Communications and Networks – Data Science for Communications and served on the Editorial Board of IEEE TCCN, IEEE TMC and Wiley IJSC&N. He was a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Aug. 2010, Sabanci University, Aug. 2013 and University of Padova, Aug. 2015. Dr. ElBatt is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2026) and the recipient of Google’s Faculty Research Award (2011), among others. His research interests include modeling, performance analysis and optimization of wireless communications and networks, mobile computing, IoT and networked systems and interdisciplinary applications. He served as the IEEE Egypt Section Vice Chairman (2020-2023). Dr. ElBatt is a Fellow of AAS and a Senior Member of IEEE.