Team

Current

Research associate:

• Mohammed Baydoun

  • Papers: CCGrid’23, iWAPT’25, GrAPL’25

Master students:

• Hussein Amro

• Rana Dbouk

• Basel Fakhri

• Abd El Kader Kahil

Former

Master students:

• Hadi Al Khansa (MS, 2025)

  • Parallel Bidirectional A* Search for GPU-Accelerated Pathfinding

• Jamil Mahmoud (MS, 2024)

  • Thesis title: Accelerating Knowledge Graph Relationship Queries on GPUs

• Mohammad Sonji (MS, 2023)

  • Thesis title: Predicting if Executing Applications are Near Completion

  • Papers: iWAPT’25, GrAPL’25

  • Late Henri Qais Naccache Best Thesis Award for 2022-2023

• Amir Nassereldine (MS, 2022)

  • Thesis title: Predicting the Performance of Containerized High-performance Computing Applications under Different Interference Conditions

  • Papers: HiCOMB’22, Bioinformatics’23, CCGrid’23

• Safaa Diab (MS, 2022)

  • Thesis title: Accelerating Genome Analysis Using Processing-in-Memory

  • Papers: HPEC’20, HiCOMB’22, Bioinformatics’23, CCGrid’23

  • Late Henri Qais Naccache Best Thesis Award for 2021-2022

• Bachir El Masry (MS, 2021)

  • Thesis title: Optimizing Sparse Matrix Multiplication for Sparse Deep Neural Networks on GPUs

• Mhd Ghaith Olabi (MS, 2020)

  • Thesis title: A Compiler Framework for Optimizing Dynamic Parallelism on GPUs

  • Papers: HPEC’20, CGO’22

• Tarek Abdel Sater (MS, 2020)

  • Thesis title: Exploring Processing-in-Memory Acceleration of Breadth-First Search

Undergraduate researchers:

• Karim Barada (BS, 2021)

  • Project title: Parallel Vertex Cover Algorithms on GPUs

  • Papers: IPDPS’22

• Adnan Jaljuli (BS, 2021)

  • Project title: Parallel Vertex Cover Algorithms on GPUs

  • Papers: IPDPS’22

• Peter Yamout (BS, 2021)

  • Project title: Parallel Vertex Cover Algorithms on GPUs

  • Papers: IPDPS’22

Information for Prospective Researchers

If you are interested in doing research with me, please take a look at my recent publications to make sure that my research interests align with yours. Once you have done so, please send me an email letting me know which topics you found most interesting or if you have a closely related project in mind. Please make sure to attach your CV and unofficial transcripts to the email.

I normally expect that you have taken at least one advanced course with me – such as a course on parallel computing or compilers – and scored a high grade in this course. This will ensure that you will not have a high learning curve getting started on a project.