Biography

ISLAM ELSAYED SHAALAN إسلام السيد شعلان
Associate Prof. of Electronics and Communications, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Port-Said University, Port-Fouad 42523 · +201004737209
is_shaalan@eng.psu.edu.eg is_shaalan@@hotmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-8154
CEO of Port Said University
Director of ISTC-PSU
EE Dept., Faculty of Engineering,
 

Educational Qualification

EDUCATION
JULY 2014
PH.D., PORT-SAID UNIVERSITY, PORT-SAID, EGYPT
SEPT 2008
M.S., SUEZ-CANAL UNIVERSITY, PORT-SAID, EGYPT
AUG 2000
BS.C., SUEZ-CANAL UNIVERSITY, PORT-SAID, EGYPT
 

Academic And Professional Experience

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
JUL. 2022 – CURRENT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF
ENGINEERING, PORT-SAID UNIVERSITY, EGYPT
AUG. 2014 – JUL 2022
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF
ENGINEERING, PORT-SAID UNIVERSITY, EGYPT
NOV. 2008 – AUG. 2014
ASSISTANT LECTURER, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF
ENGINEERING, PORT-SAID UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY KNOWN, SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY
AFTER TRANSFERRING PORT SAID BRANCH TO AN INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY), EGYPT
MAR 2002 – NOV 2008
INSTRUCTOR, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF
ENGINEERING, SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY, EGYPT
PEER REVIEWER
• IEEE ACCESS Journal.
• Wireless Personal Communications Journal, Springer.
• Soft Computing and Automation Journal.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
▪ Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt. 2002- Now
(Formerly known, Suez Canal University after transferring Port Said branch to an independent
University).
• Higher Institution of Engineering and Technology, Arish, Egypt. 2009-2011
Worked as adjunct Teaching assistant.
• Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology in New Damietta. 2014-2016
Worked as adjunct Lecturer.
• Faculty of Engineering, Sinai University, Arish, Egypt. 2015-2018
Worked as adjunct Lecturer.
• Worked as a Lecturer in the following Courses:
• Analog Communication Theory.
• Digital Communication.
• Communications and Control laboratory.
• Navigation Systems.
• Mobile Communication.
• Satellite Communication.
• Statistical Communication.
• Signals & Systems.
• Signal Processing.
• Optical Communication.
• Electromagnetic Fields.
• Electromagnetic Waves.
• Antenna and Wave Propagation.
• Communications Electronics.
• Computer Aided Network Analysis.
• Electrical Engineering Fundamentals.
• Electronics.
• Instrumentation and Measurements.
• Semiconductors Physics.
SUPERVISIONS
• GPS-Based-Emergency-Drone – Graduation Project (1st Place Winner PSED Annual Event 2016).
• Wi-Fi Indoor Navigation System– Graduation Project (2nd Place Winner PSED Annual Event
2018).
• Accident Prevention Using Eye Blinking, App-Car - Graduation Project (Value Technical Support,
1st Place Winner PSED Annual Event 2019)
Community Involvement
• Participated in organizing the annual event “Port-Said Engineering Day 2008
(PSED)” in Port Said University.
• Participated in organizing the 8th International Conference on 2022
Advanced Machine Learning and Technologies and Applications
(AMLTA2022), held in Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt on 7th May 2022.
ADMINISTRATION
▪ Management Information Systems Administrator of Port Said University - Information &
Communication Technology Project (PSU-ICTP) 2014-2021
▪ CIO of Port Said University - Information Systems & Technology Centre (PSU-ISTC) 2021-
CURRENT.
▪ The Minister Of Higher Education's Counselor 2022.

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS
• M. S. Abo El-Soud, M. El-dakiky and I. E. Shaalan, "Performance analysis of sliding window
multiuser detectors used in asynchronous DS-CDMA systems," Mansoura Eng. Journal (MEJ),
vol. 32, no. 2, pp. E.19-33, June 2007.
• I. E. Shaalan, A. A. S. Dessouki, K. A. Elbarbary, M. S. Abo El-Soud, “Performance of PSO
and SA Assisted Joint Scheme of Channel Estimation and PPIC in MIMO-SDMA/OFDM Overloaded System,” 2013 21st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and
Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Primosten, 18-20 Sept. 2013, pp 1 – 5, 2013.
• K. A. Elbarbary, I. E. Shaalan, “Performance of a PSO assisted PPIC for SDMA/OFDM
Overloaded System,” 2013 International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical,
Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE), Konya, 9-11 May 2013, pp 22 – 27, 2013.
• I. E. Shaalan, K. A. Elbarbary, A. A. S. Dessouki, , M. S. Abo El-Soud, “SA and PSO Assisted
Joint Scheme of Channel Estimation and PPIC for MIMO-SDMA/OFDM System,” 16th ACM
international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
MSWiM’13, November 3–8, 2013, Barcelona, Spain., pp 447-452, 2013.
• I. E. Shaalan, K. A. Elbarbary, A. A. S. Dessouki, , M. S. Abo El-Soud, “ PSO and SA Aided
Joint Channel Estimation and OSIC for Overloaded MIMO-SDMA/OFDM System,” 4th
International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Applications (ICSIA 2014),
Nottingham, July 6-7, 2014.
• Islam Shaalan; Abdelrahman Khattaby; Ahmed Dessouki, “A New Joint TSPA/WGC Pilot
Contamination Reduction Strategy Based on Exact Graph Coloring Grouping Algorithm”. IEEE
Access Journal, Volume: 7, 2019.
• Heba Nashaat; Osama Refaat; Fayez W. Zaki; Islam Shaalan, "Dragonfly-Based Joint
Delay/Energy LTE Downlink Scheduling Algorithm" IEEE Access Journal, Volume: 8, 2020.
• Osama Refaat; Islam Shaalan; Heba Nashaat; Fayez W. Zaki, "A new Power Efficient – Delay
Aware Downlink Algorithm for 3GPP LTE Cellular Networks” Port-Said Engineering Research
Journal, vol. 24, Issue 1, pp.108-113, 2020.
Islam Shaalan; Saied Dawod; Sherif M. Abuelenin, “Fully Generalized Spatial Modulation
utilizing Transmit Antenna Grouping” Port-Said Engineering Research Journal, vol. 25, Issue
1, pp. 49–58, 2021.
• Islam E. Shaalan; Eslam M. Fadly; and Moustafa H. Aly, “Enhanced ADO-OFDM-based
adaptive digital dimming VLC system” Optics Letters, vol. 47, Issue 9, pp. 2133-2136, 2022.
• Mona Nashaat; Islam E Shaalan; Heba Nashaat, “LTE Downlink Scheduling with Soft
Policy Gradient Learning” The 8th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning
and Technologies and Applications (AMLTA2022)/ Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and
Communications Technologies- Springer, Cham, vol. 113, pp. 224-236, 2022.
• Shaimaa E Elghetany; Saly Hassaneen; Islam E Shaalan; Heba YM Soliman, “Intrinsic
Interference Reduction: A Channel Estimation Approach for FBMC-OQAM Systems”, The 8th
International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning and Technologies and Applications
(AMLTA2022)/ Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications TechnologiesSpringer, Cham, vol. 113, pp. 445-455, 2022.