Ph.D. Computer Engineering, August 2014 - July 2017
M.S. Computer Engineering, August 2010 - July 2013
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
B.S. Computer and System Engineering, September 2000 - June 2005
Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
AWS, Python, TensorFlow, Android SDK, Docker, Java, C++, C, Linux Shell Scripting, LaTeX, SQL, SQLite
Arabic, English, French
Engineering Manager,
November 2022 – Present
Sophi
Lead Software Engineer,
April 2022 – November 2022
Sophi
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning,
January 2021 – April 2022
Sophi
Mobile Cloud Software Engineer,
January 2020 – Present
Abed Solutions
Learning Content Team Lead,
December 2019 – August 2019
RoboGarden
Software Engineering Intern,
May 2014 – August 2014
Google Fit Team, Google, Mountain View, CA
Software Development Engineer,
November 2007 – November 2008
Device Modeling Team, Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt
Graduate Research Assistant,
May 2016 – July 2017
National Capital Region Urban Living Lab
Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA
Graduate Research Assistant,
January 2017 - May 2017
Hume Center for National Security and Technology
Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA
Graduate Research Assistant,
January 2015 – May 2016
Hume Center for National Security and Technology
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Research Assistant,
February 2013 – May 2013
Magnum Group, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Assistant Professor,
November 2017 – January 2020
Department of Computer and System Engineering
Minia University, Minia, Egypt
Instructor,
March 2006 – August 2010
Inform - IBM Authorized Training Center, Cairo, Egypt
Instructor,
February 2008 – August 2010
Al-Sedeek Education Center, Giza, Egypt
Teaching Assistant,
March 2007 – August 2010
Department of Computer and System Engineering
Minia University, Minia, Egypt
Teaching Assistant,
February 2006 – September 2007
Department of Electronics, Communications and Computer Engineering
Al-Shorouk Academy, Cairo, Egypt
Teaching Assistant,
September 2005 – May 2006
Department of Computer and Information Technology
Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology, Cairo, Egypt
IEEE Peer Reviewer, August 2016 - Present
Docker Mentor, March 2017 - May 2018
Technical Program Committee Member, Special session on IoT Cloud Platforms, July - December 2017
President of Executive Board, Islamic Center of Blacksburg, January – December 2016
VT-MENA Program Scholarship,
September 2010 - July 2017
For candidate staff-members of the Egyptian Universities pursuing a graduate degree
in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Virginia Tech
Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education Award,
September 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
For distinction in undergraduate studies at Ain-Shams University, Faculty of
Engineering
Amr Abed. "Securing Cloud Containers through Intrusion Detection and Remediation," PhD dissertation, Virginia Tech, 2017
Amr Abed, Charles Clancy, and David Levy. "Intrusion Detection System for Applications Using Linux Containers," in Security and Trust Management, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9331, 2015, pp. 123-135
Amr Abed, Charles Clancy, and David Levy. "Applying Bag of System Calls for Anomalous Behavior Detection of Applications in Linux Containers," in IEEE Globecom 2015 Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA), 2015
Amr Abed, Mohamed Azab, Charles Clancy, and Mona Kashkoush. "Resilient Intrusion Detection System for Cloud Containers," in International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2018
Mohamed Azab, Bassem Mokhtar, Amr Abed, and Mohamed Eltoweissy. "Toward Smart Moving Target Defense for Linux Container Resiliency," in 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2016), 2016
Mohamed Azab, Bassem Mokhtar, Amr Abed, and Mohamed Eltoweissy. "A Moving-Target Defense Approach for Linux Container Resiliency," in The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, 2016, invited paper
Mona Kashkoush, Mohamed Azab, Gamal Attiya, and Amr Abed. "Online Smart Disguise: Real-time Diversification Evading Co-residency based Cloud Attacks," in Cluster Computing, 2018