94 Fouad Ibrahim Gerges Street, Phone: (+2)03-5242324

Bolkely, Alexandria, Cell phone: (+2)010-233-50038

21523, Egypt. E-mail: bmokhtar@alexu.edu.eg Homepage: http://eng.staff.alexu.edu.eg/~bmokhtar

Bassem Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Mokhtar

Job Title: Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Communications

and Electronics Section, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt

Marital status : Married

Children: Two

Nationality : Egyptian

Date of Birth :19 December 1981

Place of Birth : Alexandria, Egypt

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.):

o Degree Accomplishment Date: 17 May 2014

University: Virginia Tech, USA

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

o The Major Area: Computer Engineering

o The Specific Area: Network Intelligence and Network-Semantics Management

o Core Courses:

Network Architecture and Protocols

Stochastic Signals and Systems

Trustworthy Wireless Networks

Optical WDM Networks

Introduction to Statistical Communication & Information Theory

Systems Modeling and Optimization

o GPA of the Core Courses: 3.825/4

o Dissertation: Biologically-inspired Network Memory System for Smarter Networking.

o Contributions:

Biologically-inspired customizable application-agnostic distributed network

memory management system with efficient processes for extracting and

classifying high-level features and reasoning about rich semantics in order to

resolve the Internet semantics gap and target Internet intelligence.

Systematic methodology using monolithic and hybrid intelligence techniques

for efficiently managing data semantics and building runtime-accessible

dynamic ontology of correlated concept classes related to various Internet

elements and at different levels of abstraction and granularity that would

facilitate:

Predicting future events and learning about new services;

Personal Information

Education

Google Scholar Profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CRduN88AAAAJ&hl=en

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Recognizing and detecting of normal/abnormal and dynamic/emergent

behavior of various Internet elements; and

Satisfying QoS requirements with better utilization of resources.

Master of Science (M.Sc.):

o Degree Accomplishment Date: 12 February 2008

University: Alexandria, Egypt

Department: Electrical Engineering

o Core Courses:

Satellite Communication Systems

Digital Communication Theory

Digital Signal Processing Architecture & Circuits

Computer Networks

Teletraffic Engineering

Coding Theory

o GPA of the Core Courses: 4/4

o Thesis: Performance Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks

o Scope of the thesis:

Achieving good understanding of the following:

Data aggregation in wireless sensor networks.

Routing protocols in wireless sensor networks.

Designing an efficient MAC layer for wireless sensor networks.

The wireless sensor networks with limited energy and constraints.

Flow rate and lifetime of limited energy constrained wireless sensor networks.

Simulation of wireless sensor networks using the network simulator ns-2.

Designing a wireless sensor network for a small application with high quality of

service.

o Contributions:

New constraints were added to improve the optimization performance of wireless

sensor networks.

Building a combined optimization problem which is used to improve the flow rate

and the lifetime for a limited constrained wireless sensor networks.

Improving the results of the optimization processes using the particle swarm

optimization.

Post-Secondary Education: Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University 1999-2004

o B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Communication & Electronics Section

o Grade: Distinction with Degree of Honor (GPA: 3.9/4, Percentage: 91.53%)

o Ranking: 3rd

over a class of 421 students

o Graduation Project:

Title: Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Design and Implementation

Grade: Distinction

Project Subjects:

- Computer Networks

- Studying the physical and MAC layers of the IEEE 802.11 protocol

- Network and WLAN security

- Applications of WLAN

Secondary Education: Mobarak Toppers School, Alexandria 1997-1999

o Grade: 95.5 %

2016 – Present Researcher and Founder,

Computer Networks Group,

Website: https://compnetalexu.wordpress.com/

Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

2014 – Present Research Associate and Co-Founder,

Center of Smart Nanotechnology & Photonics (CSNP),

Website: http://smartci.alexu.edu.eg/CSNP/

Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Researches:

- Nano-enriched, trustworthy, and autonomous optical sensor for water

pollution monitoring.

- Autonomously managed RFID-based sensor network with flexible &

low cost enhanced antennas

2016 – 2017 Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)

Amount: EGP 999,600

Project: Autonomously managed RFID-based sensor network with

flexible & low cost enhanced antennas

Role: Researcher

2015 – 2016 Scientific Publishing and Research Development Fund (SPRDF)

Amount: EGP 50,000

Project: Smart Tamper-proof Efficient Management for Solar Energy

Systems

Role: PI

2014 – 2016 Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA

Egypt).

Amount: US $ 134,000

Program: Advanced Research Projects

Project: Nano-enriched, trustworthy, and autonomous optical sensor for

water pollution monitoring.

Role: Co-PI

Selected Publications:

Journal Papers

- B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, Big Data and Semantics Management System for

Computer Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 57, 15 March 2017, Pages 32-51,

ISSN 1570-8705, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2016.06.013.

- B. Mokhtar, M. Azab, N. Shehata, and M. Rizk, System-Aware Smart Network

Management for Nano-Enriched Water Quality Monitoring, Journal of Sensors, vol.

2016, Article ID 3023018, 13 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/3023018

Research Experience

Publications and Awards

Research Experience

Research Funding

- B. Mokhtar and M. Azab, Survey on Security Issues in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,

Alexandria Engineering Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 1115-

1126, ISSN 1110-0168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2015.07.011.

Book Chapters

- B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, Hybrid Intelligence for Smarter Networking

Operations, in Handbook of Research on Advanced Hybrid Intelligent Techniques

and Applications, S. Bhattacharyya, et al., Eds., ed: IGI Global, 2016.

Conference Papers

- M. Hussien, B. Mokhtar, M. Abdou, M. R. M. Rizk, "Extended Study towards

Performance Improvement of Cloud-RAN", The 13th International Wireless

Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 26-30, 2017, Valencia,

Spain.

- A. M. Mustafa, O. M. Abubakr, O. Ahmadien, A. Ahmedin, B. Mokhtar, “Mobility

Prediction for Efficient Resources Management in Vehicular Cloud Computing”, 5th

IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and

Engineering, San Francisco, USA, 2017.

- N. Shehata, E. Samir, S. Gaballah, M. R. M. Rizk, B. Mokhtar, M. Azab, “Optical

Sensing of Metal Tiny Particles using Ceria Nanoparticles via Fluorescence

Quenching Technique”, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2017 Conference of Sensors and

Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, March

2017, Oregon, United States.

- A. M. Mansour, B. Mokhtar, K. Gomah , K. Marghany, A. Abdelmonsef, M. R. M.

Rizk, N. Shehata, “Compact Reconfigurable Multi-size Pixel Antenna for Cognitive

Radio Networks and IoT Environments”, 2016 Loughborough Antennas Propagation

Conference, 14 - 15 November 2016, Loughborough, UK.

- M. Azab, B. Mokhtar, A. S. Abed, M. Eltoweissy, “Smart Moving Target Defense

for Linux Container Resiliency” 2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer

Networks (LCN 2016), Dubai, UAE, November 7-10, 2016.

- B. Mokhtar, M. Azab, N. Shehata, M. Rizk, “Hybrid Intelligence Nano-enriched

Sensing and Management System for Efficient Water-Quality Monitoring", SAI

Intelligent Systems Conference 2016 (IntelliSys 2016), London, UK, September

2016.

- A. M. Mustafa, O. M. Abubakr, A. H. Derbala, E. Ahmed, B. Mokhtar, “Towards a

Smart Highway Lighting System Based on Road Occupancy: Model Design and

Simulation”, AFI 360° Conference Track on Smart Cities and the Future Internet, Puebla, Mexico, May 2016.

- B. Mokhtar and M. Mokhtar, “Intelligence-based Routing for Smarter and Enhanced

Opportunistic Network Operations”, the 10th International Conference on Systems

and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2015, Barcelona, Spain, 2015.

- M. Azab, B. Mokhtar and M. M. Farag, "CyNetPhy: Towards Pervasive Defense in

Depth for Smart Grid Security", the 9th International Conference on Critical

Information Infrastructures Security, Limassol, Cyprus, October 13-15, 2014.

- M. M. Farag, M. Azab and B. Mokhtar, "Cross-Layer Security Framework for Smart

Grid: Physical Security Layer", the 5th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid

Technologies (ISGT) European 2014 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, October 12-15,

2014.

- B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, “Semantics Management for Big Networks”, 15th

IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco,

California, USA, August 2014.

- B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, “Hybrid Intelligence for Semantics-enhanced

Networking Operations”, the 27th International Conference of the Florida Artificial

Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-27), Florida, USA, May 2014.

- B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, “Towards a Data Semantics Management System

for Internet Traffic”, the 6th IEEE-IFIP International Conference on New

Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Dubai, UAE, March 2014. (Best Paper

Award).

- B. Mokhtar, M. Eltoweissy, and H. Elsayed, "Network memory system for enhanced

network services," in 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information

Technology, Al Ain, UAE, March 17-19, 2013. - B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, "Biologically-inspired network “memory” for smarter

networking," in Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

(CollaborateCom), 2012 8th International Conference on, 2012, pp. 583-590. - B. Mokhtar and M. Eltoweissy, "Memory-enabled autonomic resilient networking," in

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

(CollaborateCom), 2011 7th International Conference on, 2011, pp. 132-141. - M. R. M. Rizk and B. M. Mokhtar, "Improvement of the design and analysis of flow

rate in limited energy constrained wireless sensor networks using evolutionary

optimization algorithms," in Radio Science Conference, 2008. NRSC 2008. National,

2008, pp. 1-9.

Awards: - Egyptian Government Short-term Post-Doc Fellowship, University of Florida, Florida,

USA, 2015-2016.

- My paper of title “Towards a Data Semantics Management System for Internet Traffic”

has been selected as one of the best papers in the NTMS 2014 conference in Dubai, UAE

2014.

- Egyptian Government Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA, 2009-2013.

- My paper of title “Improvement of the analysis of flow rate in limited energy constrained

wireless sensor networks using the genetic algorithm” has got the first place in the

graduation papers in the papers' contest of the IEEE Alexandria student branch in Egypt,

December 2007.

Machine Learning-based Networking Operations

Autonomous Network Management

Software-defined Networking

Context-aware Networking

Semantic-driven Networking Operations

Information management and knowledge-based Management

Network Intelligence

Wireless Networks

Mobile Cloud Computing

Sensor Networks

System on Chip (Embedded Systems)

Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Computer Networks

Research Interests

2014-Present: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of

Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Fall 2015, 2017-2018: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department,

Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt

2008-2014: Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University,

Alexandria, Egypt.

2005-2008: Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University,

Alexandria, Egypt.

o Teaching (Undergraduate and Graduate Courses)

Modern Physics

Communication Systems

Optical Devices and Engineering

Optical Communication Networks

Introduction to Microprocessors

Microprocessor Interfacing and Applications

Electronic Devices and Circuits

Electrical Circuits II

Teletraffic Engineering

Computer Networks: Architectures and Protocols

Communication Systems in Smart Grids

Information Theory

Computer and Network Security

Data Communication Networks

Advanced Topics in Computer Networks

Computer Architecture

Introduction to IoT Platforms

o Labs

Communication Systems

Semiconductor Devices

Optical Devices and Engineering

Microprocessor Interfacing and Applications

Digital Fundamentals

Electronic Circuits

Computer Networks

o Talks and Seminars

“Towards Smart Solutions for Enhanced Smart Grid Security”, in the workshop

titled UK-Egypt Enhanced Research Networks in Renewable Energy to Support

Economic Development, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and

Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt, February 2015.

“Smart Grid Communication and Networking”, Faculty of Engineering,

Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, November 2014.

Professional and Work Experience

o Undergraduate students’ projects under my supervision

Project: Driver Healthcare System using IoT (August 2017 to July 2018)

Project: IoT-based Energy Management System for Smart Buildings (August

2017 to July 2018)

Project: Artificial Vision and Voice Recognition for Smart Control of IoT

Applications (August 2017 to July 2018)

Project: Design and Implementation of an Energy Monitoring WiFi Smart Plug

(November 2016 to July 2017)

Project: Wireless Brain Communication to Control IoT Devices (August 2016 to

July 2017)

Project: Check-me-up, Semantics-driven Website and Patients Database for

Enhanced Health Services (January 2016 to June 2016)

Project: Intelligent Sensor Network-Enabling IoT (August 2015 to July 2016)

Project: Human Behavior Aware Smart Home Automation System (August 2015

to July 2016)

Project: Near-Optimum Reconfigurable Multi-Band Patch Antenna Design for

Cognitive Radio Systems (August 2015 to July 2016)

Project: Towards Elastic Smart Android-Based Application for Efficient

Database Management, Summer 2015 (July 2015 to September 2015)

o Graduate students under my supervision

PhD Students Student name: Tamer Elzayyat

Research interest: Efficient Security-enhanced Networking Architecture for IoT

Start date: September 2012

Student name: Mohamed Elrakaiby

Research interest: Performance Evaluation of 5G C-RAN Infrastructure for IoT

Applications

Start date: September 2017

Master Students Student name: Radwa Hamed

Research interest: Software Defined Networking-based Management System

Architecture

Start date: August 2015

Student name: Catherine Nayer

Research interest: Enhanced Software Defined Networking Controller Security for

Internet of Things

Start date: September 2015

Student name: Maha Fathy

Research interest: Performance Optimization of Cloud Radio Access Networks

Start date: September 2015

Student name: Abdelrahman Miky

Research interest: Efficient Data Routing Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks

Start date: April 2017

Native Language: Arabic

Foreign Languages:

Language Speaking Understanding Reading Writing

English V. Good Excellent Excellent V. Good

Programming Languages

o Java

o MATLAB

o Python

Computer Network Simulation Environments

o Network simulator version 2 and 3 (ns-2 and ns-3)

o Java-based network simulator (JSim)

o Mininet

Memberships

o IEEE Member since 2006

Reviewer for various conference papers and journals including

o Journals and Magazines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

IEEE Transactions on Computers

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids

Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)

Elsevier Alexandria Engineering Journal (AEJ)

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

o Conferences

IWCMC 2017

AICCSA 2015

ICC 2015

GC 2015

WD 2012

INFOCOM 2011

WCNC 2011

ICC 2011

GC 2011 – AHSN

LCN 2011

iCOST2011

Organizing and Technical Program Committee Member

o Technical program committee member of the workshop of IoT Cloud Platforms: Trustworthiness, Analytics, and Applications held in conjunction with the 3rd

Language and Programming Skills

Additions

International Symposium on Real-time Data Processing for Cloud Computing (RTDPCC 2017 – II) in conjunction with the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017), Austin, Texas, USA, 5th – 8th December, 2017.

o Organizing committee member of the 4th World Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (04th WCASET-17), 6th - 7th September 2017, Dubai, UAE.

Courses Taken

o Television & RADIO Hardware

o CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

o Thinking Skills

o Effective Teaching Skills

o Effective Communication Skills

o Research Methodology

o Financial and Legal Affairs

o Time and Conference Management

o Effective Presentation Skills

o Competitive Research Projects

o International Publishing of Research

o Scientific References Management Systems

o Quality Standards in Learning

o Student Evaluation and Examination Techniques

o Strategic Planning

o The Credit Hours System

o Use of International Database

o Designing and Developing the Digital Content

o Research Project Implementation and Research Team Management

Training Experience

o Schlumberger Oilfield Company – Wireline Segment –Marsa Matrouh, Egypt. (July

24th, 2003 – August 14

th, 2003).

o Alexandria Oil Field Engineering & Services Company–Alexandria, Egypt. (August

first 2002 -August 31th 2002).

o Arab Contractors Company (Electric Section) – Alexandria, Egypt. (July 1st, 2001 -

July 31th, 2001).

Skills

o Working under pressure

o Efficient time management

o Working in teams

o Leading and managing teams and projects

o Exploring novel and innovative ideas

Hobbies

o Playing football and tennis

o Fishing

o Reading

o Visiting historical places

o Listening to light music