Ahmed Abbas obtained his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Xin Gao at Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group (SFB) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, Ahmed is an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt.

Research Interests

Ahmed's research interests included Bioinformatics, NMR protein structure determination.

Selected Publications

1. Carlo Cannistraci, Ahmed Abbas, and Xin Gao. (2015). “Median modified Wiener filter for nonlinear adaptive spatial denoising of protein NMR multidimensional spectra”. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). 5:8017.

2. Ahmed Abbas, Xianrong Guo, Bing-Yi Jing, and Xin Gao. (2014). “An automated framework for NMR resonance assignment through simultaneous slice picking and spin system forming”. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 59(2): 75-86.

3. Ahmed Abbas, Xinbing Kong, Zhi Liu, Bing-Yi Jing, and Xin Gao. (2013). “Automatic peak selection by a Benjamini-Hochberg-based algorithm”. PLOS One. 8(1): e53112.

4. Zhi Liu, Ahmed Abbas, Bing-Yi Jing, and Xin Gao. (2012). “WaVPeak: picking NMR peaks through wavelet transform and volume-based filtering”. Bioinformatics. 28(7): 914-920.

Education Profile

  • October 2010 - December 2015 Ph.D. in Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
  • December 2006 - May 2010 M. Sc., in Computer and Systems Engineering, Computer and Systems Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Sept. 1999 - June 2004 B. Sc., in Computer and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.