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Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• GPA (11.0/12.0)
• Full Merit Scholarship
• Focus on image restoration, enhancement, and 3D vision tasks.
• Advisor: Prof. Jun Chen

Bachelor's of Science in Computer Engineering

• GPA (3.7/4.0) with Honors (Dean's List)
• Full Merit Scholarship
• Graduation Project: Federated learning system on autonomous vehicles for lane segmentation
• Advisor: Dr. Mohamed S. Darweesh

Research Assistant

• Low Vision: Designing unified image restoration and enhancement approaches.
• 3D Vision: Harnessing 3D representations as 3D Gaussian Splatting, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for 3D reconstruction, restoration, and editing using generative models as Diffusion and flow-based models.

Teaching Assistant

• Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Supporting students in programming, algorithms, and embedded systems courses.
• Conducting lab sessions and providing academic guidance.

Machine Learning Engineer

• Project: Designed an automated lab evaluation system using mouse tracking.
• Optmization: Reduced grading time by 32 hours per academic term.
• Impact: Co-authored a research article in IEEE Access and a conference paper presented at the 14th CICN.

Research Assistant

• Agriculture: Developed a plant disease detection system using a modified CNN.
• AVs: Researched and implemented a federated learning-based lane segmentation model for autonomous vehicles.

RetinexDual: Retinex-based Dual Nature Approach for Generalized Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration

• Published in arXiv
• M Kishawy, AA Hussein, J Chen

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Results

• Published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
• X Liu, Z Wu, FA Vasluianu, CO Ancuti, C Ancuti, R Timofte, ..., M Kishawy, J Chen, ..., C Yu, et al.

Federated Learning System on Autonomous Vehicles for Lane Segmentation

• Published in Scientific Reports
• M Kishawy, MT Abd El-Hafez, R Yousri, MS Darweesh

NTIRE 2024 Dense and Non-Homogeneous Dehazing Challenge Report

• Published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
• CO Ancuti, C Ancuti, FA Vasluianu, R Timofte, Y Liu, X Wang, Y Zhu, G Shi, X Lu, X Fu, ZJ Zha, W Dong, H Zhou, R Wang, X Liu, G Zhai, J Chen, W Song, Y Gao, J Xiong, H Lin, X Li, D Li, M Kishawy, et al.

A Generic AI-Based Technique for Assessing Student Performance in Conducting Online Virtual and Remote Controlled Laboratories

• Published in IEEE Access
• AM Abd El-Haleem, M Kishawy, MM Elmesalawy, HAH Hosny

A New Intelligent System for Evaluating and Assisting Students in Laboratory Learning Management System

• Published in 2022 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN)
• HA Hassan, M Kishawy, MM Elmesalawy, AM Abd El-Haleem

Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

• Published in International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC)
• MM El-Lamey, M Kishawy, M Gamal, NEM Bishady, AW Mohamed

Modelling and Analysis the Population Density Effect on the Infectiousness Rate of COVID-19 Novel Virus and the Mortality Rate Percentage Regarding Oxford’s Stringency Index Model in MATLAB

• Published in Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19
• AM Ibrahim, NEHM Bishady, SH Elghalban, NN Mostafa, M Kishawy et al.

Modeling the Effect of Population Density on Controlling COVID-19 Initial Spread with the Use of MATLAB Numerical Methods and Stringency Index Model

• Published in 2020 2nd Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)
• AM Ibrahim, M Kishawy, NN Mostafa, NEHM Bishady, SH Elghalban

• 2ⁿᵈ Place – NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low-Light Image Enhancement, CVPR Workshops

• 4ᵗʰ Place – NTIRE 2024 Dense and Non-Homogeneous Dehazing Challenge, CVPR Workshops

• Full Scholarship – Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (2023–2027)
• 2ⁿᵈ Place – AIC Competition for Arabic Text Summerization, Military Technical College, Egypt
• 1ˢᵗ Place Winner – Hacktrick AI Hackathon, Dell Technologies

• Best Solution Challenge Chapter (Global) – Google Developer Student Clubs
• Shield of Contribution – School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Nile University

• Dean’s Honor List (GPA > 3.75/4.00) – Fall & Spring semesters, Nile University

• Full Scholarship – B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Nile University (2018–2023)

• 3ʳᵈ Place (Embedded Systems) – Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

• Bronze Medal – Egyptian Olympiad in Informatics (EOI)