About Me

I hold a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech (2025), co-advised by Prof. Hesham Rakha. Check my doctoral thesis. Prior to that, I earned my M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Cairo University in my home country of Egypt. I am currently working as a Transportation Research Engineer in the Center of Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS) as well as the Arizona Transportation Institute (AZTI) at the University of Arizona. My research interests span a wide range of topics including traffic operations and transportation planning.

Research Interests

• Traffic Flow Theory
• Traffic Control and Optimization.
• Traffic Modeling and Simulation.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Transportation Planning
• Traffic Signal Optimization
• Stochastic Optimization
• Connected and Automated Vehicles
• Vehicle Trajectory Optimization