Ahmed Abdelkader

Reviewer: SoCG 2020, SODA 2019, ICRA 2019, SoCG 2018, ICRA 2018, HPG 2018, CASE 2018, CCCG 2018, RED-UAS 2017, COCOON 2017.
Served on the department's Education Committee in 2014. Most notably, I contributed to the discussions on revising Ph.D. degree requirements to help students focus on research earlier in the program.
Before UMD: AlexU, Egypt.
- Coached the university's team to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in 2012 and 2013. I competed myself in 2011, which was the first time AlexU made it to the ICPC World Finals.
- Served on the board of the local ACM Student Chapter between 2006-2008.

02/24/2018: PC^2 judge for the department’s Annual High School Programming Contest.
11/04/2017: mentor in the all-women hackathon TECHNICA.
02/18/2017: PC^2 judge for the department’s Annual High School Programming Contest.
09/05-09/16/2016: helped with construction work and play school at the Ritsona refugee camp in Chalkida, Greece with Lighthouse Relief.
04/18/2015: logistics/exhibitions at the Math Midway in DC organized by the National Museum of Mathematics during the first-ever National Math Festival.
09/21/2014: "Security Marshall" at the People's Climate March in NYC.
12/10/2013: local conference on the Role of Engineering Towards a Better Environment (RETBE'13) (Alexandria, Egypt).

Optimization Problems in Visual Surveillance [PDF]
- M.Sc. Thesis Defense
Research: Expectation vs Reality [PDF]
- Presented in IEEE AlexSB's EUREKA - Research Essentials Series
Optimization Problems in Visual Surveillance [PDF]
- M.Sc. Thesis Proposal
Hilbert's Problems - Hilbert and Göttinnen [PDF]
- Presented in E-Web's Mathematics Story Talk Series
- Video recording (Arabic, no subtitles)
- - Part 1
  - Part 2
AI for Engineering Students - A Non-Technical Introduction [PDF]
- Presented in E-Web's Electric Week XII
- Accompanying videos:

Ahmed Abdelkader PhD Candidate @ UMD