Dr. Mohammed El-Beltagy - Chief Scientist PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 21 April 2008 12:19

 

Current positions

  • Chief Scientist, Peerialism AB, Cairo, Egypt, 2007 to present.

  • Assistant professor, University of Cairo, Egypt.

Previous employments

  • Senior Scientist at BiosGroup Inc., Santa Fe, NM, USA, May 2000-October 2002.

  • Managing Director (Advanced Computer Systems Division), BELCO (Egyptian Co. for international trade), January-September 1995.

  • Systems Analyst, Procter & Gamble Egypt, July-December 1994.

Education

  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Southampton, September 1996-Febrary 2000.

  • MSc. Mechatronics, Lancaster University, October 1995-September 1996.

  • BSc. Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, September 1989-June 1994.

Startups

Optomatica, assists customers in optimizing their business processes using scientific techniques.

Professional memberships

  • Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 1994.

  • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1997.

  • Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) since 2004.

Selected relevant publications

  1. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "Optimisation for Multilevel Problems: A Comparison of Various Algorithms", Proceedings of the Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture 98, pp. 111-120, ed. I. C. Parmee, Springer Verlag, Plymouth, 1998.

  2. G. M. Robinson, Mohammed A. El-Beltagy, and A. J. Keane, "Optimization in Mechanical Design", Evolutionary Design by Computers, pp. 147-165, ed. P. J. Bentley, Academic Press 1999.

  3. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms with Various Optimization Methods for Multi-level Problems", Eng. Appl. of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 639-654, vol. 12, 1999.

  4. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "Optimisation for Multilevel Problems: A Comparison of Various Algorithms", Proceedings of the Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture 98, pp. 111-120, ed. I. C. Parmee, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-76254-X, Plymouth, 1998.

  5. G. M. Robinson, Mohammed A. El-Beltagy, and A. J. Keane, "Optimization in Mechanical Design", Evolutionary Design by Computers, pp. 147-165, ed. P. J. Bentley, Academic Press, 1999.

  6. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms with Various Optimization Methods for Multi-level Problems", Eng. Appl. of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 639-654, vol. 12, 1999.

  7. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "Using Self Organizing Maps and Genetic Algorithms for Model Selection in Multilevel Optimization", The Twelfth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems IEA/AIE-99, Cairo, Egypt, May 31- June 3 1999.

  8. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy, P. B. Nair, and A. J. Keane, "Metamodeling Techniques For Evolutionary Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems: Promises and Limitations", Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 196-203, vol. 1, Eds. Banzhaf, W., Daida, J., Eiben, A. E., Garzon, M. H., Honavar, V., Jakiela, M. and Smith, R. E., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1999.

  9. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "Topographical mapping assisted Evolutionary Search for Multilevel Optimization", Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 660-665, vol. 1, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 1999.

  10. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and A. J. Keane, "Evolutionary optimization for computationally expensive problems using Gaussian Processes", Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001), pp. 708-714, vol 2, ed. Hamid Arabnia, CSREA Press, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2001.

  11. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and W. Andy Wright, "Gaussian Processes for Model Fusion", Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN-2001, pp. 373-380, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.

  12. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy, "An Evolutionary risk adjusting model fusion framework for optimizing models with variable fidelity", 10th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MA&O) Conference, 2004.

  13. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy, "A Model Fusion Based Framework for Optimizing Models with Variable Fidelity", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Production Engineering Design and Control (PEDAC’2004), Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.

  14. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and M. I. Hussien, "Evolutionary Scale-Preserving and Repair-Free Operators for the Design of Layered Composite Materials for Vibration and Shock Isolation", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Production Engineering and Design for Development, pp. 277-287, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2006.

  15. Mohammed A. El-Beltagy and M. I. Hussien, "Design Space Exploration of Multiphase Layered Phononic Materials via Natural Evolution", Proceedings of IMECE’06 2006, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.