Draft:Sherif Elfayoumy

Sherif Elfayoumy (born November 13, 1970) is an American Computer engineering#Profession: Computer engineer, Research, and Teacher. As of July 1, 2023, he holds the position of Steel Dynamics Dean (education) of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science, as well as Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Before his current role, Elfayoumy served as the Associate Dean of the College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction, and the Director of the School of Computing at the University of North Florida. Additionally, he has held the role of Chief information officer for both Conq in Jacksonville, FL and Quture in Daytona Beach, FL.

Early Life and Education

Driven by a passion for problem-solving and a love for mathematics, Elfayoumy aspired to become an Engineer. He graduated from High School with a math track in 1988, ranking second in his school district. He then completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical engineering with a concentration in Telecommunications and Electronics in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated with Distinction and Honors in May 1993, maintaining Honors and a Scholarship for Academic Excellence throughout his undergraduate studies.

During his undergraduate studies, Elfayoumy completed internships with a local contractor and the British computing giant International Computers Limited, where he was introduced to mainframes. His undergraduate capstone project focused on developing an expert system for troubleshooting problems. Upon graduation, he joined the Software Skills Development Program organized by the Information Technology Institute of the Information and Decision Support Center of the Cabinet of Egypt. His capstone project in this program involved developing a neural network-based software for optical character recognition of handwritten Arabic, in collaboration with IBM's Cairo Technology Development Center. Elfayoumy graduated from the program in 1994. In 1996, he received a scholarship from the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center to pursue his Master's degree in Computer science at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1998. He then joined the Computer science and engineering Doctorate, earning his Ph.D. in July 2000. His doctoral dissertation, titled "An Agent-based Approach for Online Performance Tuning of Parallel and Distributed Computation," was advised by James H. Graham.

Career

Sherif Elfayoumy began his career at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt)#National Telecommunication Institute as a research engineer, followed by roles as a software engineer at the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center (RITSEC) and a systems administrator at the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE). He then moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Louisville. While completing his Ph.D., Elfayoumy served as an adjunct professor in the Information Systems Department at the College of Business, University of Louisville, and as an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the College of Natural Sciences, Indiana University Southeast.

Elfayoumy's academic career began as a Academic tenure-track Assistant professor at the University of North Florida's School of Computing. He later engaged with the startup community in Jacksonville, Florida, leading the R&D operations for Intelligenxia (now Conq) and being named an inventor on three awarded Patent. As Intelligenxia grew, he assumed the role of Chief information officer. In 2006, Elfayoumy was promoted to Associate professor, and in 2009, he took a one-year sabbatical in Egypt. During this time, he was a research fellow with the Biotechnology graduate program at the American University in Cairo and a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme on Cloud Computing. Upon returning to the United States, Elfayoumy became the Chief Information Officer for Quture, a software company based in Daytona Beach.

Throughout his tenure as a professor of Computer Science at the School of Computing at the University of North Florida, Sherif Elfayoumy made significant contributions to academia and the broader community. He founded the Ph.D. program in Computing at the University of North Florida, which is the university's first Ph.D. program and taught over 27 different courses, many of which he introduced and developed, such as Data Mining and Internet Programming. He supervised more than 25 graduate theses, published nearly 50 peer-reviewed articles, and secured over $2 million in funding for his high-performance computing, AI, and Big Data research projects.</ref>

Elfayoumy also served as a reviewer and program committee member for several prestigious journals and international conferences. His synergetic activities included roles such as Data Advisor for the Northeast Florida Fusion Center, chair of the IEEE Computer Society in Jacksonville, FL, and regional coordinator for IEEE Computer Science activities in regions R3 and R4. He was a member of the JAXUSA (Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce) Economic Development Committee, a program evaluator for the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), and a member of the ABET/CAC Data Science Accreditation Criteria Committee. Additionally, he served as a program evaluator for the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment.

The University of North Florida president appointed Elfayoumy to serve on the university's inaugural Data Analytics Leadership team, where he trained academic leadership to become change agents.

In 2013, Sherif Elfayoumy began to explore academic administration and was selected to serve as the Associate Dean of the College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction at the University of North Florida. By 2015, he had taken the helm of the School of Computing at the same institution. Under his leadership, the School of Computing experienced significant growth, doubling its student population, developing four new undergraduate majors, and attracting several federal funding awards as well as raising private funds to establish new facilities and endowments. The school also received the DSH-NSA designation as a program of academic excellence in Cyber Defense. He is an avid proponent of DEI issues. He was instrumental in increasing the percentage of female faculty in the School of Computing to 25% and increasing the percentage of female students from 13% to 23%. Additionally, Elfayoumy played a pivotal role in developing UNF's first Ph.D. program. The students of the School of Computing participated in various competitions. In 2023, they won first place in the Southeast Regional Cyber Defense Competition and were ranked among the country's top 10 schools.

In 2023, Elfayoumy was selected through a national search to become the Steel Dynamics Dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne. His appointment was affirmed by the Purdue University Board of Trustees in July 2023</ref> . In 2024, Elfayoumy completed the Leadership Fort Wayne program and was inducted into the New Economy and Innovation Council of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership.

Honors and Awards

• Professional Award in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville (2023)
• Distinguished Professor Runner-Up Award, University of North Florida (2018)
• FIS Distinguished Professorship Award, University of North Florida (2014)
• Outstanding Service Plaque, 6th Code Camp Conference (2010)
• Outstanding Service Plaque, IEEE Computer Society (2009)
• Outstanding Service Plaque, IEEE Computer Society (2005)
• Senior Member Plaque, IEEE Computer Society (2003)
• <Inaugural CSE Doctoral Award, University of Louisville (2001)

Selected Publications

• de Jong, Elfayoumy, Schnusenberg. From Returns to Tweets and Back: An Investigation of The Stocks in The Dow Jones Industrial Average. Journal of Behavioral Finance. 2017; 18(1):54.3.
• Testagrose, Demirer, White, Erdal, Liu, Klostermeyer, Elfayoumy, Maxwell, Gupta. Impact of Image Preprocessing Techniques on Breast Density Classification. Radiology Society of North America, RSNA Annual Meeting'22. 2022.
• Testagrose, Gupta, Erdal, White, Maxwell, Liu, Elfayoumy, Klostermeyer, Demirer. Breast-Density Semantic Segmentation with Probability Scaling for BI-RADS Assessment using DeepLabV3. 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. 2023 October 04.
• Testagrose, Gupta, Erdal, White, Maxwell, Liu, Kahanda, Elfayoumy, Klostermeyer, Demirer. Impact of Concatenation of Digital Craniocaudal Mammography Images on a Deep-Learning Breast-Density Classifier Using Inception-V3 and ViT. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. 2022.
• Ibrahim, Birchell, and Elfayoumy. Automatic Heart Volume Measurement from CMR Images Using Ant Colony Optimization with Iterative Salient Isolated Thresholding. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Vol. 14. 2012.
• Mahmoud, Siam, Elfayoumy, Said, Hasanin, Demian, and House. A Single Amino Acid Variation is Responsible for the Acquisition of an Exclusive Eighth Glycosylation Site in all Victoria-Like Influenza Type B Viruses Isolated From Egypt. Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, 2011.

Patents

• R. Carlson, C. Clarkson, S. Elfayoumy, R. Mohan, U. Mohan, and S. Mukundan, "System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Concept-Based Searching and Analysis," US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent 7,788,251, 2010.
• S. Elfayoumy and R. Mohan, "A Method and Computer Program Product for Converting Ontologies into Concept Semantic Networks," US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent 7,676,485, 2010.
• R. Carlson, C. Clarkson, S. Elfayoumy, R. Mohan, U. Mohan, and S. Mukundan, "System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Concept-Based Searching and Analysis," World Intellectual Property Organization, WO 2007/047252.