Mohamed Shalaby is a Senior Research Scientist in the Computational Imaging Group (VCCIMAGING) working with Professor Wolfgang Heidrich at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). 

Education and Early Career

Mohamed joined the University of Alexandria in Egypt to obtain both his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and his master degree in Mathematical Engineering. After that, he received his doctoral in Technical Mathematics from Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) at Johannes Kepler University in Austria.

Dr. Shalaby began his career life in Austria.  He started as a postdoctoral fellow at Johannes Kepler University. In 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the Special semester of Groebner Bases at RICA, Austrian Academy of Science. After that, he worked as a software engineer at RISC Software GmbH, a Company of the Johannes, at Kepler University Linz.

In 2009, Mohamed joined KAUST as a research scientist. He later was promoted to senior research scientist at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) under the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) Division in KAUST.

Research Interest

Dr. Shalaby is mainly interested in geometric modeling and processing.

Education Profile

  • Ph. D., Technical Mathematics, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Johannes Kepler University, Austria
  • M. Sc., Mathematical Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt
  • B. Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt

Selected Publications

Ghanem, B., Schneider, J., Shalaby, M., Elnily, U. (2016). System and method for crowd counting and tracking, Patent. https://hdl.handle.net/10754/620496
Ghanem, B., Schneider, J., Shalaby, M., Elnily, U. (2016). System and method for crowd counting and tracking, Patent. https://hdl.handle.net/10754/620483