User:Mishae/Moustafa Youssef

Moustafa Youssef is a highly-cited Egyptian computer scientist.

Biography
Youssef graduated from a school in Egypt in July 1992 and five years later, in June 1997, obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University. In 1999 he got his master's degree from Alexandria University and then a second master's from the University of Maryland with the "Invention of the year award". In 2011 he was awarded a "Google Research Award" and the next year got a "Windows Azure Educator Grant". He also obtained an International Scientific Cooperation grant from the National Institute of Informatics and participated in the untying of the Gordian Knot and prior to all of it was working at one of the Microsoft Research Projects in Hawaii. He also wrote over 160 peer-reviewed articles that, have been cited over 4500 times, giving him an h-index of 35.