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Prof. Ahmed Radwan

Professor

Faculty Office Ext.

1758

Faculty Building

UB2

Office Number

S21

Biography

Prof. Ahmed G. Radwan is Professor of Engineering Mathematics at Nile University, Egypt, and is currently on leave from Cairo University’s Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics. He has held numerous senior academic and administrative positions, including Vice President for Research, Dean of Graduate Studies, Director of Research and Sponsored Projects, Director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center, Acting Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Head of Marketing and Communications at Nile University. He has also served in leadership and visiting roles at Cairo University, KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and McMaster University in Canada. 

An internationally recognized researcher, Prof. Radwan works across engineering mathematics, fractional-order systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaotic circuits, circuit theory, secure communication, cryptosystems, and applied artificial intelligence. According to Scopus, he has published more than 500 indexed papers, received over 13,000 citations, and achieved an h-index of 58. He is also the author or co-author of 13 international books and 26 book chapters. His global standing is reflected in his repeated inclusion among Stanford/Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Scientists and his ranking among Egypt’s leading researchers. 

His research combines mathematical theory with practical engineering applications, covering areas such as oscillators, filters, impedance matching, bioimpedance modeling, secure computation, and intelligent systems. He has supervised more than 50 Master’s and PhD students, with ten receiving best thesis awards, while many of his graduates have advanced to prominent academic, technical, and executive roles. 

Prof. Radwan has also made a major contribution to scientific capacity building. He founded the NILES International Conference and the Undergraduate Research Forum, initiatives that have engaged thousands of researchers, students, institutions, and international contributors. NILES has published more than 800 IEEE-indexed papers, while UGRF and related competitions have supported thousands of projects and contributed to awards, Scopus-indexed outputs, and more than 15 startups. 

His innovation record includes six US and international patents in areas such as oscillators, fractional-order impedance matching, digital chaotic systems, and pseudo-random number generation. He has also led or contributed to funded projects exceeding USD 1 million in secure communication, AI, smart agriculture, sensing, robotics, and environmental technologies. 

Beyond research, Prof. Radwan has served on major national and international scientific committees and currently chairs Egypt’s Basic Sciences Research Council. His many honors include national and regional awards for leadership, research excellence, engineering, applied sciences, and mathematical sciences.  

 

Recent Publications
Journal

Circuit realization and FPGA-based implementation of a fractional-order chaotic system for cancellable face recognition

Biometric security has been developed in recent years with the emergence of cancellable biometric concepts. The idea of the cancellable biometric traits is concerned with creating encrypted or distorted traits of the original ones to protect them from hacking techniques. So, encrypted or distorted biometric traits are stored in databases instead of the original ones. This can be accomplished

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness
Conference Paper

Novel Fast Prediction Algorithm for Advanced and High Efficiency Video Coding

This paper introduces an efficient prediction algorithm tailored for advanced and high efficiency video coding, encompassing both H.264 and H.265. The proposed approach aims at replacing the standard intra prediction methodology by employing a streamlined prediction mode, which significantly reduces computational overhead and system complexity while eliminating the requirement for mode decision

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Mechanical Design
Journal

Optimization of Double fractional-order Image Enhancement System

Image enhancement is a vital process that serves as a tool for improving the quality of a lot of real-life applications. Fractional calculus can be utilized in enhancing images using fractional order kernels, adding more controllability to the system, due to the flexible choice of the fractional order parameter, which adds extra degrees of freedom. The proposed system merges two fractional order

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness
Conference Paper

A (k,n)-Secret Image Sharing With Steganography Using Generalized Tent Map

Secret Image Sharing (SIS) transfers an image to mutually suspicious receivers as n meaningless shares, where k or more shares must be present to recover the secret. This paper proposes a (k, n)-SIS system for any image type using polynomial interpolation based on Lagrange polynomials, where the generated shares are of size 1/k of the secret image size. A full encryption system, consisting of

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Agriculture and Crops
Journal

Chaotic neural network quantization and its robustness against adversarial attacks

Achieving robustness against adversarial attacks while maintaining high accuracy remains a critical challenge in neural networks. Parameter quantization is one of the main approaches used to compress deep neural networks to have less inference time and less storage memory size. However, quantization causes severe degradation in accuracy and consequently in model robustness. This work investigates

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Conference Paper

Battery Modeling with Mittag-Leffler Function

In various areas of life, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the technology of choice. Equivalent circuit models are utilized extensively in characterizing and modeling energy storage systems. In real-time applications, several generic-based battery models are created to simulate the battery's charging and discharging behavior more accurately. In this work, we present two generic battery

Artificial Intelligence
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Journal

Preparation and Characterization of nZVI, Bimetallic Fe 0-Cu, and Fava Bean Activated Carbon-Supported Bimetallic AC-F e 0-Cu for Anionic Methyl Orange Dye Removal

Nano zero-valent iron (nZVI), bimetallic Nano zero-valent iron-copper (Fe 0- Cu), and fava bean activated carbon-supported with bimetallic Nano zero-valent iron-copper (AC-F e 0-Cu) were prepared and characterized by DLS, FT-IR, XRD, and SEM. The influence of the synthesized adsorbents on the adsorption and removal of soluble anionic methyl orange (M.O) dye was investigated using UV-V spectroscopy
Artificial Intelligence
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Conference Paper

Chaos-Based Image Encryption Using DNA Manipulation and a Modified Arnold Transform

Digital images, which we store and communicate everyday, may contain confidential information that must not be exposed to others. Numerous researches are interested in encryption, which protects the images from ending up in the hands of unauthorized third parties. This paper proposes an image encryption scheme using chaotic systems, DNA manipulation, and a modified Arnold transform. Both DNA

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Mechanical Design
Conference Paper

Capacitive Power Transfer Modeling of Charging Inner-body Devices

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is highly desirable for applications with battery restrictions, such as biomedical applications. For example, in the case of implantable devices, power is transmitted through the human body, which has dielectric characteristics that must be considered during the design of the WPT system. This paper examines capacitive power transfer through the human body and

Healthcare
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Agriculture and Crops
Mechanical Design
Research Tracks

1) Fractional-Order Systems

2) Memristor

3) Bifurcation

4) Encryption

5) Chaos

Projects
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Research Project

Wireless Monitoring of Fruit Growth Using an Electrical BioImpedance Sensor Device

The idea of this project is to graph the quality of fruits and vegetables similar to ECG in humans. The purpose of this project is to build a prototype for a portable wireless electronic device capable of measuring live tissue with fruits or vegetables using bioimpedance and some mathematical & electrical models then transmitting data to the base station. This project will add scientific and
Chaotic
Research Project

Software Algorithm and Hardware Implementations of Information Security Using Number Theory and Chaotic Systems

The project aims at proposing novel software algorithms for information security and their hardware implementations. The algorithms will utilize different methods based on number theory and chaos theory. Cryptography and information hiding systems will be developed for different media data types such as text, image, audio and video. The project will investigate different classes of symmetric
3
Research Project

FPGA/FPAA Implementation of Fractional-order Systems

Fractional Calculus (FC) has been proved through numerous research examples to be a superior tool for system description to the narrow integer order domain. This is achieved through the extra parameters introduced by allowing the differential or integral orders to take non-integer values. The promising capabilities of fractional-order devices challenge the research to find a way to simulate its
5
Research Project

Ternary Logic Gates Design

Nowadays, the demand for building CNTFET-based ternary systems has been increasing. The current two-level binary logic and MOSFET technology have been facing limitations in chip size, design complexity, and power consumption. In this proposal, the method to design Ternary logic gates based on CNTFET and Memristor is proposed. Implementing Ternary Full-Adders and Multipliers is also discussed in
3
Research Project

Two Port Fractional-order Oscillators and Filters Suitable for Tissue Modeling

Objective: This project aims to study the relation between the mathematical fundamentals of fractional calculus and the concept of two-port circuit networks in the design of oscillators and filters with their analyses. These concepts will be applied to the Cole-Cole model, suitable for agriculture and biomedical applications tissue modelling. Outcomes: Literature Surveys (2 Journals + 2 Chapters)
1
Research Project

Development and Manufacturing of Soft Actuated Under Water Robotics

Objective/Contributions: Surveying research papers about transferring hard robot characteristics to soft one. Use additive manufacturing techniques to minimize the assembly process of the ROV actuator. Work on soft control and soft sensing system and study its ability to be used in soft robotics. Discuss biomimicking ROV. Create a hub for soft robotics at Nile University for participating in Egypt
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Research Project

Fractional order Image Processing Platform for Retinal Pigmontosa Patients

Objective/Contributions: Investigation and categorization of the different methodologies in fractional operator discretization. Investigate the effect of the number of memory samples on the performance of different discretization schemes and recommend the scheme which gives the best performance for the least number of memory samples. Discuss the stability analysis of the discretized operators and
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Research Project

An Underwater AR based System for Marine Life Detection and Classification for Divers and Tourists

Objective/Contributions: Collecting and annotating an extensive dataset of fish images representing the fish species in the red sea. Building a machine learning model capable of detecting and classifying fish species from a real-time video. Building a proof-of-concept prototype for the AR hardware that is capable of capturing the live video of marine life, running the classification model, and
Research Project

Multi-stage Low-cost Treatment of Dyes and Paints Wastewater by Coagulation, Adsorption, and Filtration for Reuse in Several Application

Objective/Contributions: Designing and constructing a low-cost, efficient, rapid environmentally friendly treatment system for textile and paint industries' recycling and treatment. Conducting a comprehensive literature database of all the reuse and treatment methods, in paints wastewater treatment and all the pilot plants, and treatment plants used success stories that successfully reduce the
77
Research Project

Bio-Mimetic Locomotion of Soft Turtle Robot

Abstract Amphibious robots have great potential for a variety of applications, but their design can be complex and expensive. Bio-inspired soft robotics offers a promising solution, as their actuators can perform evenly on land and underwater. Our robot takes inspiration from turtle locomotion as it bridges the gap between traditional four-legged robots and swimming robots. The robot can be
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Research Project

Bio-inspired Soft Robot for Monitoring Coral Reefs

Abstract Coral reefs play a crucial role in supporting a quarter of all aquatic life, but their existence is now threatened by ongoing climate changes. Our project aims to develop an underwater soft robot that can mimic the morphology and shape of actual marine creatures and to imitate their swimming motion. This robot can play a critical role as monitoring platform to understand the reefs