Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity with 15+ years of academic, research, and industry experience and 10+ years of progressive academic leadership at Cairo University, Egypt's top-ranked university and A'Sharqiyah University in Oman . Author of 50+ peer-reviewed publications and 5 edited books (Springer Nature, CRC Press) with an H-index of 23 and 4,400+ citations (Google Scholar); 36% of Scopus-indexed output ranks in the top 10% most-cited publications worldwide, and research has been cited by 5 patents and 4 policy documents. Ranked among Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists worldwide for four consecutive years (2021–2024), recipient of the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering (2024) and the Cairo University Encouragement Award in Engineering (2021).Proven record of securing and delivering funded research (including a €1M EU-funded project), building international collaborations (University of Leicester, University of the West of England, University of New Mexico, Yonsei Frontier Lab), supervising 15 completed graduate theses (10 MSc, 5 PhD), and shaping national digital policy as a member of Egypt's National Cybersecurity Task Force and official AI delegate to the 9th BRICS Young Scientists Forum (Russia, 2024). Combines deep technical expertise in deep learning, explainable AI, medical image analysis, network security, cryptography, and cloud security with hands-on enterprise software engineering and institutional governance experience.