Grants

• Research Grant: Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (July 2007- July 2008)
  
• Conference Grant: The American University In Cairo , ISPA2006 Conference

Awards

• IBM: Award Of Achievement through 2006
  

Conference External Reviewer

• CIKM 2013 ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management
  
• VLDB 2013 International Conference on Very Large Databases
  
• SSTDE 2013 International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases
  
• ICDE 2013 International Conference on Data Engineering
• ICDE 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering
• ISPS2011 International Symposium on Performance Science
• APSCC 2010 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference
  
• EMNLP-08 Empirical methods in Natural Language Processing
  
• HICSS-40 Collaboration systems design and processes mini-track

Journal Reviewing

• JMIS special issue drawn from the best-paper nominees of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science

Mentoring

• (IBM), Mentoring Trainees

Open source and Linux

• Linux Titan Distribution (Graduation Project)
• Cairo University Linux User Group: Gave introductory courses about Linux and Open source development
• Linux Crash Course : An introductory crash course for Linux given at the German University in Cairo