Ahmed Abdelkader Abdelrazek
Contact
Information
3457 A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
E-mail : [email protected]
WWW : http://www.cs.umd.edu/~akader/
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Fall 2013 – Expected: August, 2018)
• Research interests: Computational Geometry and Topology.
M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (Spring 2010 – Spring 2013)
• Thesis: Optimization Problems in Visual Surveillance.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (Fall 2004 – Spring 2009)
Honours and
Awards
Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013-2014.
Honorable Mention, The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - World Finals, 2011.
Bronze medal, Egyptian Olympiad in Informatics, 2006.
Conference
Publications
Ahmed Abdelkader∗ , Ahmed H. Mahmoud∗ , Ahmad A. Rushdi, Scott A. Mitchell, John D. Owens,
Mohamed S. Ebeida, “A Constrained Resampling Strategy fo Mesh Improvement”. In Proceedings
of the Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2017. (∗ equal contribution)
Ahmed Abdelkader, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Scott A. Mitchell, Mohamed S. Ebeida, “A Seed Placement Strategy for Conforming Voronoi Meshing”. In Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Conference
on Computational Goeometry (CCCG), 2017.
Ahmed Saeed, Ahmed Abdelkader, Azin Neishaboori, Mouhyemen Khan, Khaled Harras, Amr
Mohamed, “Argus: Realistic Target Coverage by Drones”. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2017.
Ahmed Abdelkader, “Recovering Visibility and Dodging Obstacles in Pursuit-Evasion Games”. In
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games Conference (CIG), 2016.
Ahmed Abdelkader, Aditya Acharya, Philip Dasler, “2048 Without New Tiles Is Still Hard”. In
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN), 2016.
Ahmed Abdelkader, Ahmed Saeed, Khaled Harras, Amr Mohamed, “The Inapproximability of
Illuminating Polygons by α-Floodlights”. In Proceedings of the 27th Canadian Conference on Computational Goeometry (CCCG), 2015.
Ahmed Abdelkader, Moamen Mokhtar, Hazem El-Alfy, “Angular Heuristics for Coverage Maximization in Multi-Camera Surveillance”. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference
on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2012.
Ahmed Abdelkader, Hazem El-Alfy, “Visibility Induction for Discretized Pursuit-Evasion Games”.
In Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2012.
Ahmed E. Kosba, Ahmed Abdelkader, Moustafa Youssef, “Analysis of a Device-free Passive Tracking System in Typical Wireless Environments”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference
on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2009.
Workshop
and Demo
Papers
Ahmed Abdelkader, “Homology Localization by Hierarchical Blowups”. Young Researchers Forum, in conjuction with the 32nd Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), 2016.
Ahmed Abdelkader, Emily Hand, Hanan Samet, “Brands in NewsStand: Spatio-Temporal Browsing of Business News”. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2015.
Research
Visits
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Teaching
Assistantships
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Jul 2015, Jan 2017
Worked on meshing algorithms with Scott Mitchell and Mohamed Ebeida.
CMSC
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Computational Geometry (Fall 2016)
Algorithms (Summer 2016)
Game Programming (Spring 2016)
Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Fall 2015)
Discrete Structures (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Fall 2009 – Spring 2013
Calculus, Differential Equations, Numerical Methods, Probability, Linear Algebra, C Programming,
Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Automata Theory.
Professional
Experience
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
Google Research
Intern Software Engineer
Jun – Aug 2014
Scalable geometry processing.
Nezal Entertainment, Alexandria, Egypt
Game Developer
Nov 2011 – Jan 2012, May – Aug 2012
Worked on the game play and internationalization of Crowds. Created prototypes for new projects.
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
GMail SRE
Intern Site Reliability Engineer
Jun – Oct 2011
Statistical monitoring of development servers, Space-time analysis for global load balancing.
Google Switzerland GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland
GMail Spam, Abuse and Delivery
Intern Software Engineer
Jul – Sep 2010
Abuse detection, Other enhancements to the learning pipeline and attachment scanner.
BadrIT LLC, Alexandria, Egypt
Research & Development Software Engineer
Created an app to measure short distances using the iPhone’s IMU.
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Core Operating System Division
Intern Software Design Engineer in Test
Sep – Dec 2009
Jun – Sep 2008
Physical test automation, Automatic inference of fuzz test input specifications.
Programming
Languages
C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python.
References
Prof. David Mount (advisor)
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Email: [email protected]
Familiar with: MATLAB, C#, Scala, Objective-C, Ruby, Mathematica.
Scott Mitchell
Computer Science Research Institute
Sandia National Labs
Email: [email protected]