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Ahmed Elwhishi

Ahmed Elwhishi

Professor
Kitchener,ON

Summary

Biography I'm a dedicated instructor and developer, combining over (10 +years) of academic expertise with (8+ years) of practical industrial experience. My professional journey revolves around solving intricate challenges using data science analytics, machine learning, and optimization algorithms. Throughout my career, I have excelled in both teaching and hands-on problem-solving. My passion for education is evident in my extensive experience in course delivery and curriculum development. My commitment to teaching is reflected in consistently high student ratings and positive evaluations. Adept at learning new tasks quickly to maximize project contributions. Solid track record of consistently exceeding targets in productivity and work quality. Always exploring ways to go above and beyond expected performance to support team.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Member

Bell Canada
Waterloo
  • 2006
  • Solving congestion problems in Bell's core network.
  • Developed project timelines for product lines from kickoff through production and online content development based on marketplace requirements

Projector Supervisor

University of Sirte
01.2013
  • Supervised project for designing and deploying indoor and outdoor WI-FI networks.

Data, Assistant Professor

University of Doha for Science and Technology
01.2021 - Current
  • Developed curriculums and taught courses
  • Taught data science and AI, machine learning (ML), internet of things (IoT), python programming, information ethics, big data, data visualization, cybersecurity, and wireless networks.

Assistant Professor

University of Doha of Science and Technology
Doha
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Conducting research on data science and machine learning, and IoT systems
  • Supported [Type] professors in [Number]-person classes by completing [Type] tasks quickly and accurately

Assistant Professor

School of Information Technology, College of the North Atlantic
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Developed curriculums and instructed courses
  • Taught programming tools (python), computer networks, wireless LANs, Database management, and information security.

IT Advisor

Ministry of Education
Tripoli
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Planned, developed, and implemented strategies to convey information with key decision makers
  • Produced detailed reports outlining key issues and proposed solutions
  • Trained new and existing employees on customer service best practices to improve overall customer handling skills

Vice President

General Telecom and Informatics Authority
Tripoli
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity

Faculty of Computer Technology | Assistant Professor

Tripoli
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Developed and taught 3 courses on wireless LAN, mobile networks, and data structure.

Postdoctoral

University of Waterloo, Fellowship
Waterloo
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Conducted research in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) applications and testing some applications on LTE.

Project Member

KAUST
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Testing routing techniques on WIMAX 802.16j/ LTE testbed

Technical deputy

University of Waterloo, Engineering
Waterloo
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Conducted a systematic and comprehensive literature review of routing and mobility analysis in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs)
  • Evaluated the performance of the most notable encounter-based routing techniques in DTNs
  • Determined the limitations of the existing techniques
  • Developed encounter-based routing protocols to overcome the shortcomings of the existing techniques
  • Compared the performance of the proposed techniques experimentally with the most notable existing techniques, resulting in confirmation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed techniques
  • Published 5 conference proceedings papers
  • Published 3 journal papers.

Teaching Assistant

University of Waterloo
Waterloo
01.2006 - 01.2011
  • Delivered tutorials, and marked exams and assignments for, undergraduate students in a variety of courses

The IT advisor

University of Waterloo
Waterloo
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Investigated mobility management techniques in cellular networks
  • Applied Ant Colony-based technique to solve cell assignment problem in mobile networks., to the Minister of Education
  • The Head of the Technical Committee

Network Engineer

The International Computer Centre Libya, ICC
Tripoli
01.1993 - 01.1998
  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Computer Networks

Education

Ph.D of Electrical - Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
06.2012 - 06.2012

Master of Science - Wireless Networks

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
10.2006 - 10.2006

Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -

Tripoli University
Tripoli, Libya
07.1993 - 07.1993

Data Science and AI Certificate Waterloo -

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
05.2022 - 05.2022

No Degree - Sybersecurity

Palo Altro
USA
01.2021 - 01.2021

Skills

Multiculture education

Additional Information

● University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship Award, University of Waterloo, Canada/ Fall 2007, Winter 2008, Fall 2009

  • Recipient of scholarship awarded by Libyan Ministry of Education to pursue Masc. and Ph.D. Program in Canada/ Fall 2004-Fall 2011

Puplications

  

Academic Journals 

1. Ghalya B. Alwhish, Jamal Bentahar, Ahmed Elwhishi,” Multi-Valued Model Checking IoT Systems with Commitments Protocols”. Submitted to Journal of systems and software, March 13,2023. 

2. Ghalya B. Alwhish, Jamal Bentahar, Ahmed Elwhishi, and Witold Pedrycz, Mv-Checker: A Software Tool for Multi-Valued Model Checking Intelligent Applications with Trust and Commitment. Submitted to  Expert Systems With Applications. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4505659 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4505659 

3. Mais S. Aljebari, Issmail M. Ellabib, and Ahmed B. Elwhishi. " Performance Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Location Area Planning in Cellular Network". International Journal of Modern Communication Technologies & Research (IJMCTR) ISSN: 2321-0850, Volume-2, Issue-4, April 2014

4. Ahmed Elwhishi, Pin-Han Ho, K. Naik, Basem Shihada, "A Novel Message Scheduling Framework for Delay Tolerant Networks Routing," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 871-880, May, 2013.

5. Ahmed Elwhishi, Pin-Han Ho, K. Naik, Basem Shihada, "Self-Adaptive Contention Aware Routing Protocol for Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1422-1435, July, 2013

6. Ahmed  Elwhishi, Ho pin-Han, Basem Shihada, " Contention Aware Mobility Prediction Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks ", Wireless Networks, April 2013.

Conferences

1. Ghalya B Alwhishi, , Jamal Bentahar, Ahmed Elwhishi, 'Multi-valued Model Checking A Smart Glucose Monitoring System with Trust', Accepted by IWCMC 2023.

2. Ghalya B Alwhishi, J Bentahar, A Elwhishi, “Three-valued Model Checking Smart Contract Systems with Trust under Uncertainty, The 3rd International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DBB 2022)

3. Ghalya B. Alwhish, Jamal Bentahar, Ahmed Elwhishi, “Verifying Timed Commitment Specifications for IoT-Cloud Systems with Uncertainty”, The 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud(FiCloud 2022).

4. A. Elwhishi, Ho pin-Han, Basem Shihada, " A Message Scheduling Framework for Congested Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks", Accepted by WSCAR'2015.

5. Mais S. Aljebari, Issmail M. Ellabib, and Ahmed B. Elwhishi, " Particle Swarm Optimization Based Approach for Location Area Planning in Cellular Networks", ICAT 2014.

6. A. Elwhishi, Ho pin-Han, Basem Shihada, “Message Scheduling and Forwarding in Congested DTNs, Advances in Future Internet (AFIN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on. 21 August 2012.

7. A. Elwhishi, Ho pin-Han, K. Naik, Basem Shihada, “ Contention Aware Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks”, Advances in Future Internet (AFIN), 2011 Third International Conference on. 21 August 2011. (best paper award).

8. A. Elwhishi, Ho pin-Han, K. Naik, Basem Shihada. A Novel Buffer Management Architecture for Epidemic Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). In Proceedings of QSHINE'2010. 

9. Elwhishi, A.; Pin-Han Ho; Naik, K.; Shihada, B.; , "ARBR: Adaptive reinforcement-based routing for DTN," Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.376-385, 11-13 Oct. 2010

10. Ahmed Elwhishi and Pin-Han Ho. 2009. SARP - a novel multi-copy routing protocol for intermittently connected mobile networks. In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications (GLOBECOM'09), Mehmet Ulema (Ed.). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 4482-4488

11. Ahmed Elwhishi, Issmail Ellabib, and Idris El-Feghi. “Ant Colony Optimization for Location Area Planning in Cellular Networks''. The 2008 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2008). 

Timeline

Data Science and AI Certificate Waterloo -

University of Waterloo
05.2022 - 05.2022

No Degree - Sybersecurity

Palo Altro
01.2021 - 01.2021

Data, Assistant Professor

University of Doha for Science and Technology
01.2021 - Current

Assistant Professor

University of Doha of Science and Technology
01.2021 - 01.2023

Assistant Professor

School of Information Technology, College of the North Atlantic
01.2020 - 01.2021

IT Advisor

Ministry of Education
01.2017 - 01.2019

Vice President

General Telecom and Informatics Authority
01.2015 - 01.2016

Faculty of Computer Technology | Assistant Professor

01.2014 - 01.2016

Projector Supervisor

University of Sirte
01.2013

Ph.D of Electrical - Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo
06.2012 - 06.2012

Postdoctoral

University of Waterloo, Fellowship
01.2012 - 01.2014

Project Member

KAUST
01.2011 - 01.2012

Technical deputy

University of Waterloo, Engineering
01.2007 - 01.2011

Master of Science - Wireless Networks

University of Waterloo
10.2006 - 10.2006

Teaching Assistant

University of Waterloo
01.2006 - 01.2011

The IT advisor

University of Waterloo
01.2004 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -

Tripoli University
07.1993 - 07.1993

Network Engineer

The International Computer Centre Libya, ICC
01.1993 - 01.1998

Project Member

Bell Canada
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