Academic Profile
Wassim Alexan was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1987. He received a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Communications Engineering, an MBA from the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt, and an MA in Educational Leadership from the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, in 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, and 2024, respectively.
He was a member of the Mathematics Department from 2010 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been a faculty member in the Information Engineering and Technology Department at GUC, teaching various courses related to wireless communications, modulation and coding, information theory, digital logic design, circuit theory, and mathematics. In 2023, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Since its inception in 2019, he has also served as an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at the German International University (GIU) in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include wireless communications, information security, image and signal processing, mathematical modeling, and engineering education.
Dr. Alexan is a professional member of the ACM and has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award at the 19th and 26th IEEE Conferences on Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA 2015 and SPA 2023, respectively) in Poznan, Poland; the AEG Writer of the Year Award from AUC in 2019; and the Best Poster Award at the 37th IEEE National Radio Science Conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 2020.
Currently, Dr. Alexan serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IECE International Journal of Intelligent Signal Processing, an Academic Editor for IET Computers & Digital Techniques, and a Guest Editor for Discover Imaging, a Springer Link journal. Additionally, he is a reviewer and technical program committee member for various IEEE, IET, Springer, and Elsevier journals and international conferences. Dr. Alexan is listed among the top 2% of world scientists according to the Stanford/Elsevier ranking published in October 2024.