Dr. Islam Akef Ebeid Nile University ITCS
Assistant Professor Candidate • School of ITCS • Nile University

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Final Interview • Dean & Provost 10 Mins • 8 Slides

10-Minute Executive Self-Brief

Concise synthesis of Teaching, Research Leadership, and Administrative Governance enriched with full CV metrics for the Dean & Provost interview committee.

  • Executive Trajectory: Ain Shams B.Sc., ATU M.Sc., UALR M.Sc. & Ph.D., UT Austin Postdoc, Assistant Professor of CS at TWU & SAU.
  • Research & Grants ($671K): Lead PI on $600K NSF CISE/CCF #2523786 ($210K TWU award), 14 peer-reviewed publications (Nature Scientific Data, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, IEEE CBMS, ACM Best Paper) + Neuro-Symbolic GNN initiative.
  • Teaching & Mentorship: 4.5/5.0 evaluation across 12+ graduate/undergrad CS courses, new AI course design (CSCI 5773), and 7 advised graduate theses/capstones.
  • Administrative Governance: TWU Faculty Recruitment Coordinator (2023–2024), University AI Initiative Committee, Division Curriculum Committee, Sustainability Committee, SAU CS Club Advisor, and Editorial Board service.
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First Interview • ITCS Committee 20 Mins • 17 Slides

20-Minute Full Faculty Job Talk

From Data Quality to Neuro-Symbolic Graph Learning: Representation Learning Across Enterprise, Biomedical & Scientific Domains.

  • Part I (Academic & Industry Trajectory): 15+ years spanning Arkansas.gov, Intel, AbbVie, TACC, UT Austin, SAU, and TWU.
  • Part II (Past & Current Research): Graph-based entity resolution (RuleCleaner, HydroGraph), ProtGram-DirectGCN (Frontiers in Bioinformatics 2025), biomedical Eye-Tracking (Nature Scientific Data), and $600K NSF-funded C. elegans connectome simulation.
  • Part III (Future Vision at NU): Self-supervised foundation models for low-resource graphs & Neuro-Symbolic GNN parameter compression.
  • Part IV (Teaching & Alignment): Project-driven MLOps pedagogy and strategic collaborations with NU CISC & NILEX.
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