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August 2011: Doctoral candidate, Department of Computer Science,Virginia Tech

2006 - 2009 : M.Sc. “An Arabic online Handwritten Recognition System for Pen-Based Devices, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University.

Supervisor: Prof.Hazem Abdelazim, Reseach Director at Micorsoft Lab, Egypt.

Applying different feature extraction and classification methods with all possible combinations between them to study the impact on the recognition rate. This includes some statistical methods such as: SVM (Support Vector Machines) and NN (Neural Networks).

Providing solutions for most of the difficulties inherent in recognizing Arabic script including: character connectivity, position- dependent character shaping and delayed strokes.

2000 - 2004 : B.Sc. Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University.

Graduated with a grade of Excellent with honor,

Ranked first on my class for the four years.