In a nutshell

Tamer Khattab

Ph.D. Candidate

Lab for Advanced Networking (LAN)

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Supervised by: Prof. Hussein Alnuweiri

Professional

I was granted the blessing of being able to keep a steady track of professional career beside my academic career till I started my Ph.D.

In 1991 during my undergrad at Cairo University I have worked over the summer with NCR Egypt on an Informix database system for the African Athletic Games.

In 1993 right after my graduation and before doing my M.Sc. I worked as a Hardware Support Engineer in Giza Systems (dealer for Digital in Egypt).

In 1994 I joined IBM Egypt as a Software Engineer. Working on the leading edge of Software development technology, I participated in two main projects within IBM. The first was a state of the art search engine, which included some innovative algorithms for searching and indexing text based documents. The second was a worldwide IBM corporate tool based on a client-server architecture with high scalability and reliability requirements. I stayed with IBM till the end of 1999 where I decided to take my long waited move to Canada. During this time I managed to get my M.Sc. from Cairo University.

In Jan. 2000 I joined Alcatel Canada as a Software Designer in the Network and Service Management department, where I was part of the team developing the market leading network management product (Alcatel 5620 NM)

In 2001 I started my Ph.D. career at UBC. I stayed with Alcatel till the end of 2002.

Academic

Received the B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt in 1993 with honors.

Worked as a researcher at the National Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

Received the M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the same university in 1999.

My M.Sc. research was focused on the performance evaluation of Wireless Local Area Networks.

Joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC as a Ph.D. student in Jan. 2001.