Honorary Chairs
Professor Loutfi was born in Alexandria and holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science and a MSc in Information Technology from Alexandria University. He also studied System Dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway before attaining his PhD in Systems Thinking from the University of Sunderland, UK. His passion for blending innovation and systems led to his research in Modelling and Simulation of Social Systems, and Nonlinear, Dynamic Feedback Systems.
Professor Loutfi is also a leader in international partnerships and cooperation, initiating and coordinating high-level partnerships in over 25 different countries, some at a governmental level, with projects including the enhancement of institutional cooperation in learning, teaching and enterprise, as well as internationalisation strategies.
Professor Loutfi, a renowned Professor of Internationalisation from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, is also a visiting Professor of Innovation and Globalisation at Eurasia University in China and has extensive experience in universities’ leadership and management. His expertise has led him to initiate many “firsts” in the field of higher education. He was the first British/Egyptian academician to be a council member at the Observatory of Magna Charta Universitatum of Fundamental University Values and Rights in Bologna and also the first professional in Europe to take part in a global education think tank, set up by the Ministry of Education in China to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and start-up education. He is also the Founder and Vice President of the Board of the Arab European Leadership Network in Higher Education (ARELEN). He was heavily involved with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education as an International Associate and member of the reference group for the Global Leadership Programme for Higher Education.
Professor Loutfi was born in Alexandria and holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science and a MSc in Information Technology from Alexandria University. He also studied System Dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway before attaining his PhD in Systems Thinking from the University of Sunderland, UK. His passion for blending innovation and systems led to his research in Modelling and Simulation of Social Systems, and Nonlinear, Dynamic Feedback Systems.
Professor Loutfi is also a leader in international partnerships and cooperation, initiating and coordinating high-level partnerships in over 25 different countries, some at a governmental level, with projects including the enhancement of institutional cooperation in learning, teaching and enterprise, as well as internationalisation strategies.
Professor Loutfi, a renowned Professor of Internationalisation from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, is also a visiting Professor of Innovation and Globalisation at Eurasia University in China and has extensive experience in universities’ leadership and management. His expertise has led him to initiate many “firsts” in the field of higher education. He was the first British/Egyptian academician to be a council member at the Observatory of Magna Charta Universitatum of Fundamental University Values and Rights in Bologna and also the first professional in Europe to take part in a global education think tank, set up by the Ministry of Education in China to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and start-up education. He is also the Founder and Vice President of the Board of the Arab European Leadership Network in Higher Education (ARELEN). He was heavily involved with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education as an International Associate and member of the reference group for the Global Leadership Programme for Higher Education.
Conference Chairs
Jean-Yves Beziau is a Swiss Logician, Philosopher, and Mathematician with, a Ph.D. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has been living and working in different places: France, Brazil, Poland, Corsica, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD), and Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and former President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the creator of the World Logic Day, yearly celebrated on January 14 (UNESCO international days), the World Logic Prizes Contest, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Logica Universalis and South American Journal of Logic, the book series Logic PhDs, Studies in Universal Logic and area logic editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is the President of LUA (Logica Universalis Association).
Jean-Yves Beziau is a Swiss Logician, Philosopher, and Mathematician with, a Ph.D. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has been living and working in different places: France, Brazil, Poland, Corsica, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD), and Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and former President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the creator of the World Logic Day, yearly celebrated on January 14 (UNESCO international days), the World Logic Prizes Contest, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Logica Universalis and South American Journal of Logic, the book series Logic PhDs, Studies in Universal Logic and area logic editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is the President of LUA (Logica Universalis Association).
Steering Committee
Professor Yehia Bahei-El-Din earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1972 from Cairo University with distinction and honours. He earned his M.Sc. in 1976 and PhD in 1979 from Duke University in Durham, NC, USA with a major in Civil Engineering and a speciality in Solid Mechanics. During his time as a graduate student, Professor Bahei-El-Din worked on several funded projects in composite materials and structures and his Ph.D. was among the first in the U.S. to contribute to constitutive modelling of advanced composites. Before joining The British University in September 2007, Professor Bahei-El-Din was a tenured professor at Cairo University and visiting professor at Duke University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NC State University and the University of Utah in the USA.
Professor Bahei-El-Din is renowned for his work in composite materials and structures which earned him recognition and awards from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt, as well as from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences in the USA. Professor Bahei-El-Din is the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Materials at The British University in Egypt.
Professor Omar H. Karam is the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science at The British University in Egypt (BUE). Dr. Karam obtained his B.Sc. (1980) in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Electro-physics) from Alexandria University, Egypt, and his M.Sc. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, USA. He is on secondment since 2007 from Ain Shams University, Egypt where he is a Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences.
Dr. Karam also has extensive professional experience in ICT management. He was previously the Executive Director of the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) and the Director of the Ain Shams University Research and Education Network (ASUNET). He also worked for the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) in Cairo. In the Private Sector in Egypt, he was the Technical Director for Link M.E. and a Project Manager with Unitra Communications. Dr. Karam is the author or co-author of more than 60 reviewed publications in international scientific journals and conferences. He is an elected member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honour Society “IEEE_HKN”.
Professor Yehia Bahei-El-Din earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1972 from Cairo University with distinction and honours. He earned his M.Sc. in 1976 and PhD in 1979 from Duke University in Durham, NC, USA with a major in Civil Engineering and a speciality in Solid Mechanics. During his time as a graduate student, Professor Bahei-El-Din worked on several funded projects in composite materials and structures and his Ph.D. was among the first in the U.S. to contribute to constitutive modelling of advanced composites. Before joining The British University in September 2007, Professor Bahei-El-Din was a tenured professor at Cairo University and visiting professor at Duke University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NC State University and the University of Utah in the USA.
Professor Bahei-El-Din is renowned for his work in composite materials and structures which earned him recognition and awards from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt, as well as from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences in the USA. Professor Bahei-El-Din is the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Materials at The British University in Egypt.
Professor Omar H. Karam is the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science at The British University in Egypt (BUE). Dr. Karam obtained his B.Sc. (1980) in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Electro-physics) from Alexandria University, Egypt, and his M.Sc. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, USA. He is on secondment since 2007 from Ain Shams University, Egypt where he is a Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences.
Dr. Karam also has extensive professional experience in ICT management. He was previously the Executive Director of the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) and the Director of the Ain Shams University Research and Education Network (ASUNET). He also worked for the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) in Cairo. In the Private Sector in Egypt, he was the Technical Director for Link M.E. and a Project Manager with Unitra Communications. Dr. Karam is the author or co-author of more than 60 reviewed publications in international scientific journals and conferences. He is an elected member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honour Society “IEEE_HKN”.
Scientific Committee
Abdoulaye Elimane Kane was born on October 6, 1941, in Kayes, Mali. Holder of a State Doctorate in Philosophy, Professor Kane first taught philosophy at the Lycée Blaise Diagne, then at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar as a Master before becoming Head of the Department of Philosophy. Appointed Technical Advisor to the Presidency of In the Republic of Senegal, in 1990, Mr. Elimane Kane undertook an administrative career. He was Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Education in 1989 and is currently Minister of Culture.
Jean-Yves Beziau is a Swiss Logician, Philosopher, and Mathematician with, a Ph.D. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has been living and working in different places: France, Brazil, Poland, Corsica, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD), and Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and former President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the creator of the World Logic Day, yearly celebrated on January 14 (UNESCO international days), the World Logic Prizes Contest, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Logica Universalis and South American Journal of Logic, the book series Logic PhDs, Studies in Universal Logic and area logic editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is the President of LUA (Logica Universalis Association).
van José Varzinczak is a professor of computer science at Univ. d’Artois and member of CRIL Lab France. He holds a Ph.D. (2006) in Artificial Intelligence from Université Paul Sabatier, France, an M.Sc. (2002) and a B.Sc. (2000) both in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Ivan’s main research interest area is logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence, with focus on modal and description logics and their applications in non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning about actions and change, and the semantic web.
Saloua Chatti is Professor of philosophy at the FSHST, University of Tunis. She worked on Russell’s mathematical logic and on Quine’s logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. Her research is mainly on philosophy of logic, history of logic (in particular Arabic logic), epistemic logic, modal logic (ancient, medieval and contemporary), philosophy of language, the theory of oppositions and contemporary analytic philosophy.
After studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and Mathematics Education at several universities in Moscow in 1995 I defended the Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received a research position at this Institute. During the academic year 1998/1999, I was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in NYC, US on the Fulbright grant. Upon my return to Russia, I continued working as a researcher in the Russian Academy of Science, and in 2003 I got a postdoc position at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. In 2012 I returned to Russia and until Spring 2022 combined research in the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow with teaching in Smolny College of the State University of Saint-Petersburg. In 2020 I defended my second thesis (Dr.Sc) on the axiomatic architecture of scientific theories.
In Spring 2022, soon after the beginning of the Russian military offensive against Ukraine, I and my family left Russia for France. Presently I have a position as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. Here I do research in the Archive of Henri Poincaré and teach various courses in the engineering school ENSGSI. My current research project is focused on epistemological issues of computer-based knowledge representation.
Professor of Semiotics at the University of Meknes in Morocco, President of the Moroccan Semiotics Association and Vice-President of the International Semiotics Association
Abdoulaye Elimane Kane was born on October 6, 1941, in Kayes, Mali. Holder of a State Doctorate in Philosophy, Professor Kane first taught philosophy at the Lycée Blaise Diagne, then at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar as a Master before becoming Head of the Department of Philosophy. Appointed Technical Advisor to the Presidency of In the Republic of Senegal, in 1990, Mr. Elimane Kane undertook an administrative career. He was Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Education in 1989 and is currently Minister of Culture.
Jean-Yves Beziau is a Swiss Logician, Philosopher, and Mathematician with, a Ph.D. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has been living and working in different places: France, Brazil, Poland, Corsica, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD), and Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and former President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the creator of the World Logic Day, yearly celebrated on January 14 (UNESCO international days), the World Logic Prizes Contest, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Logica Universalis and South American Journal of Logic, the book series Logic PhDs, Studies in Universal Logic and area logic editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is the President of LUA (Logica Universalis Association).
van José Varzinczak is a professor of computer science at Univ. d’Artois and member of CRIL Lab France. He holds a Ph.D. (2006) in Artificial Intelligence from Université Paul Sabatier, France, an M.Sc. (2002) and a B.Sc. (2000) both in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Ivan’s main research interest area is logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence, with focus on modal and description logics and their applications in non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning about actions and change, and the semantic web.
Saloua Chatti is Professor of philosophy at the FSHST, University of Tunis. She worked on Russell’s mathematical logic and on Quine’s logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. Her research is mainly on philosophy of logic, history of logic (in particular Arabic logic), epistemic logic, modal logic (ancient, medieval and contemporary), philosophy of language, the theory of oppositions and contemporary analytic philosophy.
After studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and Mathematics Education at several universities in Moscow in 1995 I defended the Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received a research position at this Institute. During the academic year 1998/1999, I was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in NYC, US on the Fulbright grant. Upon my return to Russia, I continued working as a researcher in the Russian Academy of Science, and in 2003 I got a postdoc position at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. In 2012 I returned to Russia and until Spring 2022 combined research in the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow with teaching in Smolny College of the State University of Saint-Petersburg. In 2020 I defended my second thesis (Dr.Sc) on the axiomatic architecture of scientific theories.
In Spring 2022, soon after the beginning of the Russian military offensive against Ukraine, I and my family left Russia for France. Presently I have a position as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. Here I do research in the Archive of Henri Poincaré and teach various courses in the engineering school ENSGSI. My current research project is focused on epistemological issues of computer-based knowledge representation.
Professor of Semiotics at the University of Meknes in Morocco, President of the Moroccan Semiotics Association and Vice-President of the International Semiotics Association
Organizing Committee
ICS Faculty Administrator at BUE, Egypt
Ioannis Vandoulakis holds a PhD from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He currently teaches at the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the Fernuniversität in Hagen (Germany). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals Symmetry: Art and Science, Ganita Bharati and Felsefe Arkivi. Vice President of the Logica Universalis Association and co-President of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. Member of the American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society and the International Association of Symbolic Logic. His recent work includes the following: •The exoteric square of opposition. Birkhäuser, Basel, Studies in Universal Logic, 2022 (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Beziau). • V.A. Yankov on Non-Classical Logics, History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Springer: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 2022 (in collaboration with A. Citkin).
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (ICS)
Vice Dean for Teaching & Learning
Software Engineering Coordinator
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (ICS)
Received the bachelor’s degree in Informatics & Computer Science, specialized in Computer Networks from The British University, validated by London South Bank university, Egypt, in July 2021. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in Web Sciences from the British University. He works currently as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Networks, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, The British University in Egypt.
ICS Faculty Administrator at BUE, Egypt
Ioannis Vandoulakis holds a PhD from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He currently teaches at the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the Fernuniversität in Hagen (Germany). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals Symmetry: Art and Science, Ganita Bharati and Felsefe Arkivi. Vice President of the Logica Universalis Association and co-President of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. Member of the American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society and the International Association of Symbolic Logic. His recent work includes the following: •The exoteric square of opposition. Birkhäuser, Basel, Studies in Universal Logic, 2022 (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Beziau). • V.A. Yankov on Non-Classical Logics, History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Springer: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 2022 (in collaboration with A. Citkin).
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (ICS)
Vice Dean for Teaching & Learning
Software Engineering Coordinator
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (ICS)
Received the bachelor’s degree in Informatics & Computer Science, specialized in Computer Networks from The British University, validated by London South Bank university, Egypt, in July 2021. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in Web Sciences from the British University. He works currently as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Networks, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, The British University in Egypt.
