Ahmed F. Ashour

Ph.D. - Assistant Professor

Office: Lillibridge Engineering Building Room 214

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Signal and Image Processing, Internet of Things (IoT), RFID, Wireless and Mobile Networks, Communications electronics.

Affiliations
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
Computer Science

Teaching Course:

ECE 4412 / 5518: Communication Systems
ECE/CS 4499 / 5599: Applied IoT Systems
ECE 4470/5575 : Digital Signal Processing

Education

Ph.D (2) Idaho State University (ISU), Electrical & Computer Engineering, USA, Exp. 2026.
Ph.D (1) Minia University (MU), Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2023.
M.Sc. Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Egypt, 2017.
B.Sc. Higher Technological Institute (HTI), Electrical & Computer Engineering, Egypt, 2009.

Bio

Ahmed F. Ashour joined Idaho State University (ISU) in December 2024 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has over 15 publications in international journals and conferences. His research interests include machine learning, wireless communication (5G/6G), IoT, signal processing, RFID, healthcare and others. He contributed to an NSF proposal on federated learning optimization. He is a reviewer for IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Globecom, and several Elsevier journals. He is a Senior Member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers and an active IEEE member.

Dr. Ashour previously held multiple academic positions, including Senior Teaching Assistant at ‎ISU (USA), Senior Teaching Engineer at The American University in Cairo (Egypt), and an Instructor ‎at AUC Robotics Association. He also worked as an Electronics Instructor for multiple technical institutions in Egypt, where he delivered courses in analog and digital electronics, PCB design, and embedded systems. Additionally, he served as an Assistant Lecturer and Teaching Assistant at AASTMT and HTI ‎‎(Egypt) from 2011 to 2017. ‎

In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Ashour worked as a Senior R&D Electronics Engineer at Falcon Electronics & Electrical Industry (Egypt), where he developed LED products, solar energy solutions, and power supplies. He was the CEO of Fast Fix Company for Construction and Maintenance in Egypt from 2014 to 2017.

Awards

Best Oral Presentation Award, 7th International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, 2024
Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCoSITE 2023, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2023
PhD Scholarship Award, Idaho State University, USA, 2022
Training Scholarship Award, Institute of Electrical Engineering Physics, Saarland University, Germany, 2008
1st Place Distinction Award, Higher Technological Institute, Egypt, 2006–2009