Assoc. Prof. Farouk is an associate Prof. since 2012. He joined the Electronics Research Institute, Egypt, in 1993. His fields of research are signal processing, mobile systems, Neural Networks, image compression, video processing, video compression, video indexing and retrieval, video on demand, pattern recognition and machine vision. Dr. Farouk received his Ph.D. at 2001 from Electronics & Communications Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ. and his M.Sc. at 1996 from Electronics & Communications Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ. Acting Manager Mobile, Social and Cloud Network Competence Center(MSCC) | Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Dr. Farouk joined Ministry of communications and Information Technology of Egypt in 2002 till june 2012. He was eContent Department manager, Information and infrastructure sector. Dr. Hesham participated in many national projects in MCIT developed based on portals and digital libraries. He also participated in some strategic studies as mobile for development. Since June 2012 he is an Acting Manager Mobile, Social and Cloud Network Competence Center (MSCC), Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. Till March 2014. He was resbosible about technology support to incubated companies and initiating new projects. For example, generating a Mobile applications national competition in 2012. Managing TIEC mobile lab. And help in establishing TIEC cloud lab. Then he is a technology consultant in ITI. 2012 Meanwhile, In ERI he is managing Technology Transfer office since June 2013 and the ERI technical office. He has some professional activities as he is vise president to Mobile task force group running under EITESAL. Dr Farouk is Cisco certified for CCNA and as Instructor and certified from Improve academy as Innovation guide.Dr. Farouk Help in developing many National strategies as Mobile application, and EG-cloud Dr. Farouk is a lecturer at American University in Cairo, AUC, in the field of networking administration, web mastering and developing and he also Cisco certified teacher since 2003.
