Professor · Faculty of Computer Science
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Prof. Mohamed Youssef

Department of Computer Science  ·  Faculty of Faculty of Computer Science

Computer Science Building, Room CS301
Joined September 2008
Office Hours: Sun, Tue & Thu: 10:00 – 11:00
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Biography

Professor Mohamed Youssef is a full professor in distributed systems and cloud computing. He has consulted for major technology firms in the region and has been awarded several international research grants.

Research Interests

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Distributed Systems — MIT
2010
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Distributed Systems
2006
B.Sc. in Computer Science
2004

Selected Publications

Microservices Orchestration at Scale: A Kubernetes-Based Approach
Journal IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing · · 9 citations
Fault Tolerance in Distributed Machine Learning Systems
Journal Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · · 64 citations
Serverless Computing: Patterns, Anti-patterns and Future Directions
Journal ACM Computing Surveys · · 125 citations

Supervised Students

Current Students
PhD
Ahmed Salah Eldin
Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for Healthcare Data
In Progress
Alumni
PhD
Mona Sherif Kamel
Auto-scaling Strategies in Serverless Cloud Environments
Graduated 2024
MSc
Ibrahim Fathy Naguib
Chaos Engineering in Microservices Architectures
Graduated 2023

Current Courses — Academic Year 2026 / 2027

Code Course Name Level Semester
CS301 Software Engineering Undergraduate First Semester
CS501 Advanced Algorithms Postgraduate Second Semester