EDUCATION

• - Grade: A
• - Thesis: Simulation of Optical Amplifiers in Space-Division Multiplexed Communication Systems
• - Supervisors: Prof. Adel El-Zoghabi and Dr. Ziad A. El-Sahn

• - Grade: Good
• - Graduation Project: GSM and Data Encryption

PUBLICATIONS

1. Hesham Youssef (Telecom Egypt), Vedrana Stojanac (Ciena), Nick Morris & John Booth (Carbon3IT), Ella Herbert & Caroline Crowley (University of California, Berkeley), and Iago Bojczuk (University of Cambridge), "Metrics for Cable Landing Station Sustainability" in Proc. SubOptic, Paper WE3A-2, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2025.
2. Tochukwu Egesi (University of Cape Town), Hesham Youssef (Sustainable Subsea Networks) and Nicole Starosielski (University of California, Berkeley), "The Potential Use of On-Site Renewable Power for Cable Landing Stations" in Proc. SubOptic, Paper WE3A-3, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2025.
3. Sustainable Subsea Networks (SSN) attends Submarine Networks World 2024 in Singapore, SubTel Forum Magazine #139 – Data Centers and New Technologies (Page 10 - 15), November 2024. the team explored the limitations of P.U.E. as a universal metric and opportunities to modernise CLS for a sustainable future. Partnerships with Ciena and Carbon3IT Ltd further support this vital work.
4. Why sustainability matters to us SubTel Forum Magazine #138 – Offshore Energy (Page 8 - 16), September 2024. The magazine highlighted the paper of Few-Mode EDFAs in SDM systems as a top paper on the Subsea Cables (Page 41) at the 73rd annual IWCS Forum.
5. Hesham Youssef, Ella Herbert and Michael Brand presented at Submarine Networks World 2024 in Singapore, P.U.(E), Can this metric be used at Cable Landing Stations?, September 2024. We explored the limitations of P.U.E as a universal metric and opportunities to modernise CLS for a sustainable future. Partnerships with Ciena and Carbon3IT Ltd further support this vital work.
6. Hesham Youssef, Habiba Salem, Mariam Reda, Isabel Jijon, Iago Bojczuk and Nicole Starosielski “Sustainable Subsea Networks: Building a Greener Future for Global Connectivity” in Telecom Review Arabia, June 2024. Here's the link to the full report on Best Practices in Subsea Telecommunications Cable Sustainability that was released in January 2024.
7. Iago Bojczuk, Ella Herbert, Michael Brand, Hesham Youssef and Nicole Starosielski, “The Case of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) at the Cable Landing Station,” in SubTel Forum Magazine #136 – Global Capacity, May 2024.
8. H. A. Youssef and Z. A. El-Sahn, “Few-Mode EDFAs in SDM Systems: Modal Gain, Noise Figure and Bit Error Rate Performance” in IWCS Cable & Connectivity Industry Forum, Paper 009, Providence, RI, USA, October 2024.
9. N. M. Anwar, H. A. Youssef, Z. A. El-Sahn, M. H. Aly, and El-S. A. El-Badawy, “On the performance of few-mode EDFAs with bidirectional pumping,” in Proc. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Paper AF2A.104, Wuhan, China, November 2016.
10. H. A. Youssef and Z. A. El-Sahn, “Optimized cladding-pumped few-mode EDFAs for space-division multiplexed systems,” in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Paper JTh2A.117, San Jose, California, USA, June 2016.
11. H. A. Youssef and Z. A. El-Sahn, “Performance of cladding-pumped few-mode EDFAs in optical space-division multiplexed systems,” in Proc. IEEE Photonics Conference, Paper WG2.2, Reston, Virginia, USA, October 2015.
12. H. A. Youssef, Z. A. El-Sahn, and A. A. El-Zoghabi, “Performance of few-mode EDFAs in optical space-division multiplexed communication systems,” in Proc. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Paper ATh3A.81, Shanghai, China, November 2014.

CERTIFICATIONS

1. Certified FTTH Technology online program from Telecom Egypt - T&D sector in July 2024.
2. Witnessed Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) of Repeater, eBU and ROADM of SMW6 Project at SUBCOM Factory/USA in August 2023.
3. Certified HCIA-5G online course from Huawei ICT academy in March 2021.
4. Web Developer track from UDACITY in July 2020.
5. Certified training course from ASN/France on the submarine power feeding equipment (PFE) in 2019.
6. Certified Android Developer track from UDACITY in April 2018.
7. Followed up the repair operations of IMEWE submarine cable in 2016.
8. Certified training course on CIENA Onecontrol 5400 Management operations (TE MESH Network).
9. Certified training course on XTERA optical DWDM equipment (GBI and AAE1 submarine cable systems) in California, USA.
10. Certified training course from TE Subcom on TYCO optical DWDM equipment for submarine cable systems (EIG, SEACOM and AAE1).
11. Certified training course on INFINERA DNA (TENorth submarine cable systems).
12. Certified training course on Alcatel-Lucent 1620 & 1626 LM O&M and 1350 OMS operation for submarine systems (EIG, TENorth and SMW5 submarine cable systems).
13. Certified training course on CIENA 6500 BB and PL O&M with Onecontrol Kit from CIENA training center in London, UK (EIG and TENorth submarine cable systems).
14. Worked at Orascom trading company for 3 months in 2011 on the maintenance of mobile communication sites (BTS, BSC,..etc).
15. Certified training course in PLC.
16. Certified training course in communications package (GSM, GPRS, CDMA, UMTS and LTE).
17. Certified CCNA.
18. Certified training in the landlines networks from Telecom Egypt company in 2009.

RESUME

A more comprehensive version of my resume can be found here

USEFUL LINKS

• - Alexandria University: http://www.alexu.edu.eg/
• - Photonics Group, Alexandria University: http://eng.staff.alexu.edu.eg/~photonics/
• - Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR): https://igsr.alexu.edu.eg/index.php/ar/

• - IEEE Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
• - Opticla Society of America (OSA): https://www.osa.org/

• - Discover Islam: http://www.sultan.org/
• - Islam Story (History and News): http://www.islamstory.com/
• - Islamic Invitation: http://www.islamic-invitation.com/
• - Islamway (Quran and Lessons): http://www.islamway.com/
• - Everything in Islam (Quran and Sounnah): http://www.al-islam.com/arb/
• - Web Athan: http://www.webazan.com
• - Qibla Locator: http://www.qiblalocator.com/
• - Online Quran Reciter: http://tanzil.info/
• - Encyclopedia of Sounnah and Hadeeth: http://www.dorar.net/

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