Ahmed Alenany

Passionate Associate Professor with 24 years of experience administering education and classroom procedures both autonomously and in collaboration with department faculty and leaders. Building foundations for next generation of academics and workforce pioneers.

• 2022-Current, Member of the Quality Assurance Unit, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, MSA University, 6th of October City, Egypt
• 2012-2015, Member of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education Team, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

• C++ & OOP programming
• Data Structures
• Web programming
• Logic Design
• Microprocessors
• Measurements and Testing
• Computer Networks
• Computer Security
• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks
• Data Mining
• Operations Research
• Automatic and digital control
• System Identification

• 2023-2024, Mobile App for Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Videos
• 2023-2024, Voice-based Email for Blind People
• 2023-2024, Smart Glass for Visually Impaired People
• 2022-2023, Accident Detection System
• 2022-2023, Sign language Translator
• 2022-2023, Navigation Robot
• 2022-2023, Human Pose estimation and gait recognition
• 2015-2016, Amazon Go-store shopping system
• 2012-2013, Two-wheels balancing robot
• 2012-2013, Microsoft Kinect-controlled arm robot

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laurentian University, November 2016- May 2017
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary, Funded by the Egyptian Government, April-September 2016
• Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, December 2010
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Laurantian University, 2006-2008
• Best student award, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, 1998

• Mohamed, O., Mohamed, A., Alenany, A., Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Videos using 2D Convolution Neural Network, IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Methods, Systems, and Applications, MSA University, Egypt, July 2024, to appear
• Gad, M. S., Alenany, A., Comparative diesel engine performance and emission forecasting using extreme learning and quadratic regression techniques burning waste cooking biodiesel, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 94-106, 2024
• Alenany, A., On the Derivative Back-off Problem in PID Controllers, MSA Engineering Journal, 2, 2, 1062-1071, March 2023
• Fayyad, A., Abdel-Gawad, A., Saleh, S., Alenany, A., IoT based Fourth Generation SCADA System for High Voltage Networks Fault Diagnosis based on BSDT-ANN, Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences, 41, 3, 75-91, March 2023
• Aljamaan, I., Alenany, A., Identification of Wiener Box-Jenkins Model for Anesthesia using Particle Swarm Optimization, Applied Sciences, 12, 10, May 2022
• Fayyad, A., Abdel-Gawad, A., Alenany, A., Saleh, S., Transmission Line Protection Using High-Speed Decision Tree and Artificial Neural Network: A Hardware Co-simulation Approach, Electric Power Components and Systems, 2022, 10.1080/15325008.2022.2050446
• Alenany, A., Helmi, A., Nasef, B., Comprehensive Analysis for Sensor-Based Hydraulic System Condition Monitoring, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12, 6, 133-140, June 2021, https://thesai.org/Publications/ViewPaper?Volume=12&Issue=6&Code=IJACSA&SerialNo=15
• Ismail, H., Alenany, A., Abozalam, B., Improved DC-Link Voltage Controller for Photo Voltaic ON-Grid Systems, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 9, 2, 442-452, June 2021, http://section.iaesonline.com/index.php/IJEEI/article/view/1724
• Atalaa, B., Ziedan, I., Alenany, A., Helmi, A., Feature Engineering for Human Activity Recognition, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12, 2, 160-167, February 2021, https://thesai.org/Publications/ViewPaper?Volume=12&Issue=2&Code=IJACSA&SerialNo=21
• Helmi, A., Alenany, A., An Enhanced Moth-flame Optimization Algorithm for Permutation-based Problems, Evolutionary Intelligence, 13, 741–764, December 2020, https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/an-enhanced-moth-flame-optimization-algorithm-for-permutation-ba/17907988
• Atalaa, B., Alenany, A., Ziedan, I., Helmi, A., Effect of Data Segmentation on the Quality of Human Activity Recognition, East African Scholars Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences, 3, 7, 133-145, July 2020, 10.36349/easjecs.2020.v03i07.001
• Mosaad, M., Alenany, A., Abu-Siada, A., Enhancing the Performance of Wind Energy Conversion Systems using Unified Power Flow Controller, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 14, 10, 1922-1929, May 2020, https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-gtd.2019.1112
• Ismail, H. A., Alenany, A., Abozalam, B., Choosing Proper Membership Function of PI-Fuzzy Controller for DC-Link Voltage, CiiT International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 11, 3, 54-60, September 2019
• Alenany, A., Westwick D., Shang, H., A Modified Observer/Kalman Filter Identification (OKID) Algorithm Employing Output Residuals, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 7, 2, 636–643, June 2019, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40435-018-00502-9
• Alenany, A., Mercere G., Ramos, J., Subspace Identification of 2-D CRSD Roesser Models with Deterministic-Stochastic Inputs: A State Computation Approach, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 25, 3, 1108–1115, May 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7502109
• Farag, S., Foda, S., Alenany, A., Fuzzy Control of a Large Crane Structure, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 5, 1, 85–98, March 2017, http://section.iaesonline.com/index.php/IJEEI/article/view/256
• Alenany, A., Shang, H., Recursive Subspace Identification with Prior Information using the Constrained Least-Squares Approach, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 54, 174-180, July 2013, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0098135413000811
• Ramos, J., Alenany, A., Shang, H., Lopes dos Santos, P., Subspace Algorithms for Identifying Separable in Denominator 2-D Systems with Deterministic Inputs, IET Control Theory and Applications, 5, 15, 1748–1765, October 2011, https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-cta.2010.0302
• Alenany, A., Shang, H., Soliman, M., Ziedan, I., Improved Subspace Identification with Prior Information using Constrained Least-Squares, IET Control Theory and Applications, 5, 13, 1568-1576, 2011, https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-cta.2010.0585
• Alenany, A., Shang, H., Soliman, M., Ziedan, I., Subspace Identification with Prior Steady-State Information, International Conf. Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), Cairo, Egypt, 2010, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5674833
• Alenany, A., Abdelrahman, O., Ziedan, I., Simple Tuning Rules of PID Controllers for Integrator/Dead Time Processes, Inter. Conf. on Automatic Control & System Engineering (ACSE-05), Cairo, Egypt, December 2005

• Prof. Nesreen Ziedan, nziedan@hotmail.com, Head of the Department of Computer & Systems Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
• Prof. Helen Shang, hshang@laurentian.ca, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
• Prof. David Westwick, dwestwic@ucalgary.ca, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

• The Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering: A Path to the Future Conference, Faculty of Engineering, MSA University, 6th October, Giza, Egypt, March 2023
• The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2016
• The 61st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2011
• International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), Cairo, Egypt, December 2010, Best Student Paper Award
• Stats & Control Meeting, Hamilton, ON, May 2007
• International Conference on Automatic Control & System Engineering (ACSE-05), Cairo, Egypt, December 2005