The American University in Cairo (AUC) honoured Professor Tamer El Batt with the Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavours Award during the June 2025 undergraduate commencement for his distinguished contributions to research and academic service at the University. 

ElBatt has made impactful contributions in the areas of wireless communications, networking, mobile computing, machine learning over networks, and ICT for Good, including digital health. He has been recognized as one of the top 2% most impactful scientists globally in the Stanford-Elsevier's Scopus database of the most cited scientists. He was also recently selected as a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and was the only Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer affiliated with Egypt or Africa in the 2023-2024 class and the second since the program started in 2005. 

"I am truly honored, humbled and gratified by this major recognition from AUC,” said ElBatt. “This award means a lot to me, and it's due to the grace of Allah, the constant support of my family and the great support of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the school and the University, as well as the immense dedication, knowledge and skills of the talented researchers, students and collaborators whom I had the privilege of working with over the years at AUC.” 

Original article written by Dalia Al Nimr published on the AUC website.