Dr. Amr Mahmoud received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering and the M.Sc degree in Engineering Physics from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at the University of Pittsburgh, and his expertise include designing neuromorphic computing systems, machine learning, especially deep learning for image processing and video prediction, and designing application-specific accelerators on FPGAs. Dr. Mahmoud is also dedicated to the engineering education development and innovation. He is looking forward to preparing the future generations of space engineers by putting all his skills and expertise into developing state-of-the-art educational space-engineering courses.
