Hany Hanafy Mahmoud Said

Dr. Hany Hanafy Mahmoud Said

College of Artificial Intelligence, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, El Alamein, Egypt
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Teaching Machines to Learn Better

Biography

Hany Hanafy Mahmoud Said is an Associate Professor and Head of the Quality Unit at the College of Artificial Intelligence, El Alamein Branch, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt. He earned a B.Sc. in 2003, followed by an M.Sc. in 2008, both degrees in Computer Engineering from AASTMT. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computing from Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, in 2015. In 2016, he joined the Computer Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor. In October 2023, he moved to the College of Artificial Intelligence and was promoted to Head of the Quality Assurance Unit in 2024. In 2026, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Artificial Intelligence College. His research interests mainly include multi-modal machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual reality. He is a member of IEEE and serves as a reviewer for several highly ranked academic journals. In 2024, he received two publication awards in recognition of Q1 journal publications. In addition, one of his papers received a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications in November 2025. Recently, he published 3 conference papers, three articles in Q1 journals, and a single paper in a Q2 journal. LinkedIn Profile: https://eg.linkedin.com/in/hany-hanafy-mahmoud-said-aa794a30. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K2qGRP8AAAAJ&hl=en.

Affiliations

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

El Alamein, Egypt

College of Artificial Intelligence

Honors and Awards

honor

Outstanding research in ICCTA 2025 conference

Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt

Paper titled: Time-Variant Transformer for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression from Longitudinal Data Authors: Habiba Assem Sharaf, Mohamed Hamed Kholeif, Hany Hanafy Mahmoud Said

Experience

University Lecturer

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, El Alamein, Egypt

01 Oct 2023 - present

University Lecturer

Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

01 Jan 2016 - 30 Sep 2023

PhD Student

Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

12 Oct 2010 - 06 Nov 2015