I graduated from the Computer Science department, Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2002 with grade Excellent with honor. I started working as a demonstrator at the same faculty in the same year.

In 2008, I got my master degree in Computer Science. My master thesis title was "An Intelligent System for Automated Arabic Text Categorization".

In Summer 2009, I got an internship at System and Circuit Technology Department, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn University, Germany.

In May 2010, I started my PhD at University of Twente, Netherlands, working on "Neogeography: The Challenge of Channelling Large and Ill-Behaved Data Streams" project.