SPEAKERS

Dr. Ebada Sarhan Ahmed

President of Future University in Egypt since 2006 till the present day, Prof. Ebada Sarhan’s career epitomizes leadership and a passion for academia. Sarhan’s professional experience reflects both his academic as well as his administrative expertise. He graduated from Cairo University with a BSc. In Communications and Electronic Engineering; he received his MSc. in Computer Science from Manchester University and his PhD. in Computer Systems from Heriot-Watt University after which he started his academic career in Helwan University. At Helwan University, Sarhan assumed several academic as well as administrative positions ranging from Lecturer to Faculty Dean. He also was a visiting professor in the Old Dominion University – USA (1984).
Sarhan’s achievements include, but are not limited to, being the founder of the first Faculty of Computers & Information in Helwan University (1995), which was the first of its kind faculty throughout all Egyptian Universities at the time; also the founder of the Scientific Computing Center in Helwan University (1984); moreover, Sarhan supervised the implementation of the infrastructure of the information network at Helwan University (2002).
To this day, Sarhan enjoys a number of active memberships in a broad range of both local and foreign key scientific committees and associations. Examples of these are: Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (2010 – present; The Publishing for the Egyptian Journal for Computer (1980 – present); the British Computer Society (1976 – present); the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK (1976 – present); the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer (IEEE), USA (1974 – present); the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate (1974 – present); the Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Artificial Intelligence (1993 – present) and the Teachers Syndicate (1980 – present). He also enjoyed the membership of other committees and associations such as: the National Information Committee – Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (1995-2010); the Evaluation Committee of Information Technology Project & BSC of Computer Science at Ajman Faculty – Ministry of Higher Education, UAE (1996) among others. National Council for ICT and The Sector Committee for Computer & Information Systems – Supreme Council of Universities (SCU) (1998 – 2003). Apart from being a member who participated in meetings, Sarhan assumed active responsibilities in relation to these committees and associations. Examples of the roles he shouldered are: a Secretary of the Permanent Committee of Promoting Professors & Associate Professors of Computer Science and Information Systems – Supreme Council of Universities (1998 – 2009) and a Board Member of the Egyptian Computer Society (1990 –present) as well as Additionally, Sarhan offered ICT consultancy services to several organizations such as: the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company (1996 – 2006), the Egyptian Society for Small Industries (1995 – 2006), the Egyptian Company for Whole Sale Trading (1998 – present) and was the consultant to the President of Helwan University (2002 – 2004).
Furthermore, Sarhan effectively impacted the scientific initiatives he participated in during which his responsibilities ranged from chairing, supervising and heading projects and committees. He authored and published more than 45 scientific articles in international and local journals as well as Arabic language textbooks in the field of Computer Science & Information Technology.
Throughout his career, Sarhan participated in several international, regional as well as local conferences during which he gave several presentations. He also chaired permanent committees of the International Conference for Statistics & Computer Science (2009 – present). Moreover, to fulfill his interest in research, he supervised 18 MSc. theses and 8 PhD. dissertations as well as headed the Research Team for Implementing Information Systems Project – Helwan University (2004 – 2006).