Hoda El-Sayed
Education
- D.Sc., Computer Science, The George Washington University, DC
- M.Sc., Computer Science, New Mexico State University, NM
Areas of Expertise
High-Performance Computing and Applications, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Parallel Processing Systems and Computer Architecture, Data Science
Biography
Dr. Hoda El-Sayed is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Dr. El-Sayed’s research interests include Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, High-Performance Computing and Programming. She received her D.Sc. in Computer Science from The George Washington University. Prior to joining Bowie State University, Dr. El-Sayed was a researcher in the High-Performance Computing Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
El-Sayed has published many refereed research articles and her publications appeared in prestigious venues such the IEEE Transactions and the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). Dr. El-Sayed’s research has been supported by Federal agencies including the National Security Agency and Department of Defense.
Dr. El-Sayed is the founding Director of the Center for High-Performance Information Processing (CHIP), a BSU interdisciplinary high-performance computing research center, which is the home to the BSU state-of-the-art Cray-XC-40 Supercomputer (Sphinx).
Research Interests
Primary Research Theme: Artificial Intelligence
Primary Research Expertise
- High-Performance Computing with Data Science
Primary Research Projects
- Voice Recognition for Mental Health Patients
- Prevention of Data Breach in Cloud Applications
- Lung Cancer Detection Using Deep Ensemble Learning
- Parkinson Prediction with Trust
- Pediatric Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Detection
- Machine Learning in Determining Dementia
Significant Funding Sources
- NSF Grant for High-Performance Intelligent Data Science Institute
Bios of Students
- Tanvi Patel, Staphord Bengesi, Sahar Almenwer, George Idoko, Tolulope Oshuntoye, Uchenna Ndolo: Doctoral students working on various cybersecurity and data science projects.
Secondary Research Interests:
- Enhancing STEM Education in the Department of Computer Science
Secondary Research Projects:
- DSEC Project (DoD STEM Education Consortium)
Service Interests
- Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC)
- STEM education
- Women in Computing
Awards & Honors
- Principal Investigator: NSF HBCU-RISE: High-Performance Intelligent Data Science Institute (HIDI) Grant, $1M May 2021-May 2024.
- Awarded Best Paper Award titled: “Optimizing Performance in Migrating Data Between Non-Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Using Parallel Computing”. In the 20th IEEE Conference on
High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC-2018), Exeter, UK, June 2018. - Awarded University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Innovation, 2016.
- Awarded College of Arts and Science Outstanding Faculty Award, 2016
- Principal Investigator: DoD Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) Equipment/Instrumentation Grant $445,450, October 2014 – October 2017.
Memberships & Affiliations
- IEEE Senior Member
- ACM Member