Awards

🏆 Awards & Competitions

3rd Place — AIC-3: Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Competition

Organizer: Military Technical College (MTC) · Aug 2025

• Ranked Top 3 out of 215 teams after 3 rounds over 2 months.
• Team Gradient Gang focused on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for assistive technologies.
• Designed AI models for EEG signal classification in:
  • Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP)
  • Motor Imagery (MI)
• Successfully demonstrated wheelchair control via brain signals, showing real-world impact for quadriplegic patients.

📄 Project Report: PDF
🔗 LinkedIn Post: View here

2nd Place — Go Dive Derby ROV Competition

Organizer: Global Robotics Challenge (GRC) · Jul 2024

• Served as Co-Lead of the Software Team and Computer Vision Lead for Shiro Kaijen, the club’s ROV.
• Designed and implemented software pipelines for:
  • Automated tomb mapping & symbol detection (computer vision).
  • Green square percentage estimation using image analysis.
  • Pipeline inspection & navigation with autonomous control.
• Led 8-member software team; repository covered control, perception, and autonomous navigation.
• Project repo: Go Dive Derby 2024 (GitHub)

3rd Prize — OpenCV Foundation Core OpenCV & AI Competition

Organizer: OpenCV Foundation · Jan 2023

• Developed DeepCat, a mobile-friendly AI system that interprets a cat’s emotional state via body language.
• Designed a CNN-based pipeline for eye, tail, and mouth detection on 10,000+ images.
• Achieved 97% accuracy for eye detection, 85% for tail positions, and 84% for mouth configurations.
• Published and presented at JAC-ECC 2023.