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Egyptian Doctor's Journey from CU to Hitachi


Mon 24 Dec 2018 | 07:18 PM
Ibrahim Eldeeb

By: Ibrahim Eldeeb

CAIRO, Dec. 24 (SEE) - An Egyptian doctor started his journey in 2000 with a small graduation project about a satellite from Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University (CU) to a senior systems architect at Japan's Hitachi.

It is Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, the Egyptian computer engineer, who got a doctoral degree in nano-satellite technologies from Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan.

He told SEE that he is now working for the Egyptian space program which is supposed to create Egypt's Space Agency in the future, adding that he chairs a center of designing the main IT infrastructure of any computer.

"Hitachi computers that are being used in this field have capabilities surpass the other traditional peers with a percentage of 1,000,000%," Ibrahim noted, pointing out that they are used in bourse and weather to predict any changes that could happen through mathematic equations in addition to their usage in manufacturing planes and missiles.

"Egypt has supercomputers which are at the Electronics Research Institute (ERI) and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences but their capabilities are less than Hitachi computers," he further said.

He revealed about what the Japanese giant company works on nowadays which is the Internet of things which is the network of devices, vehicles, and home appliances that contain electronics, software, actuators, and connectivity which allows these things to connect, interact, and exchange data.

Ibrahim added that the internet of things depends on sensors which collect data from the external environment, reach solutions suitable for the reality, and predict the future.

The Egyptian doctor graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree, electronics, and communications engineering. From 2003 to 2007, he worked for State Space Agency of Ukraine.

Translator: Hassan

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