Tamer ElBatt is currently a Professor at the CSE Dept., The American University in Cairo (AUC). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECE from Cairo University, Egypt in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was with major U.S. industry R&D, e.g., HRL Labs, Malibu, USA and Lockheed Martin ATC, Palo Alto, USA, at various positions. From 2009 to 2017, he served at the EECE Dept., Cairo University, as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate and Full Professor. He also held a joint appointment with Nile University, Egypt from 2009 to 2017 and served as the Director of the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) from 2012 to 2017. In July 2017, he joined the Dept. of CSE at the American University in Cairo as an Associate Professor, where he is currently a Professor. He served as the CSE Director of the Graduate Program and later as the Associate Chair, from 2019 to 2022. He has published more than 140 papers in major journals and international conferences. Dr. ElBatt holds seven issued U.S. patents and one WIPO patent. 

Dr. ElBatt served on the TPC of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He served as the TPC Executive Vice Chair of the 6th ICCSPA’24, TPC Co-Chair of the 5th ICCSPA’22, and Track Co-Chair of ITC-Egypt’22 and the publicity co-chair of IEEE LCN’23 and VTC-Spring 2020 and the Demos Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom 2013 and the Publication Co-Chair of IEEE Globecom 2012 and Mobiquitous 2014. Dr. ElBatt currently serves on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Communications and Networks – Data Science for Communications and has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE TCCN, TMC and Wiley IJSC&N. Dr. ElBatt also served on NSF and Fulbright review panels. Dr. ElBatt was a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino in Aug. 2010, Sabanci University in Aug. 2013 and University of Padova in Aug. 2015. Dr. ElBatt is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, the recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award in 2011, 2012 Cairo University Incentive Award in Engineering and 2015 Egypt’s State Incentive Award in Engineering. His research interests lie in the broad areas of modeling, performance analysis, design and optimization of wireless networks, mobile computing and IoT. He served as the IEEE Egypt Section Vice Chairman (2020-2023). Dr. ElBatt is a Senior Member of IEEE.