Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty

Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from the Department of Physics, Al-Azhar University, Egypt, in 2004 and 2009, respectively, and the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics (quantum information) from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His Ph.D. study was supported by a scholarship from Universiti Teknologi Petronas. In 2017, he received a scholarship as a Visiting Researcher from the University of Oxford, U.K. In 2017, he was elected as a Junior Associate Member of the African Academy of Science, Kenya. He is especially working on theories of quantum measurement, nanomechanical modeling, highly nonclassical light, practical information security, and optical implementations of quantum information tasks. His current research interests include quantum resources, optical and atomic implementations of quantum information tasks and protocols, quantum computing, mathematical modeling, computational intelligence, and machine learning. In 2015, he received the Sultana Nahar’s Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Egypt.