CV

General Information

Full Name Hossam ElAtali
Date of Birth 28th January 1991

Education

  • 2021 - present
    PhD Computer Science
    University of Waterloo, Canada
    • System Security
    • Supervisor: Prof. N. Asokan
    • Topics:
      • HW-assisted security, heterogenous TEEs, confidential computing, memory safety, side channels
    • Skills:
      • Microarchitecture development (Chisel/Verilog, RISC-V, x86, cache coherence)
      • ML HW acceleration (TPU/NPU/GPU)
      • Compiler extensions (LLVM)
      • Firmware and operating systems (C/C++, Assembly, Linux)
  • 2015
    M.Sc. INFOTECH
    University of Stuttgart, Germany
    • Computer Hardware and Software Engineering
    • Final GPA - 1.3 (German Scale, 1.0 is best)
    • Thesis:
      • Configurable Shared Cache and Memory Model for Parallel NoC Simulation
  • 2012
    B.Sc. Electronics
    German University in Cairo, Egypt
    • Final GPA - 0.74 (0.7 is best), ranked 3rd
    • Thesis:
      • Simulation of Realistic Defects for Validating Test-and Diagnosis-Algorithms

Experience

  • 2020 - 2021
    Technical Lead
    Mentor, a Siemens Business
  • 2018 - 2020
    Senior SW Development Engineer
    Mentor, a Siemens Business
  • 2015 - 2018
    SW Development Engineer
    Mentor, a Siemens Business

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Best Poster Award - Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, University of Waterloo
  • 2021
    • Entrance Scholarship - University of Waterloo
  • 2012 - 2015
    • DAAD Scholarship - German Academic Exchange Service

Service

  • USENIX'24 Artifact Evaluation PC member