18/04/2026
**Aswan University’s Computing and Artificial Intelligence Research Center Team Participates in the Third Edition of the Arab Artificial Intelligence Olympiad Achieving First rank as University team**
In an academic achievement that reflects Aswan University’s excellence and leadership in advanced technology fields, the team of the **Computing and Artificial Intelligence Research Center** at the Faculty of Engineering – Aswan University – is participating in the **Third Edition of the Arab Artificial Intelligence Olympiad**, competing in the **Cybersecurity track**.
The team comprises male and female students from the Faculty of Engineering and is led by student **Noha Nour El-Din Abdel-Hakim**, presenting an honorable model that highlights young women’s ability to lead, innovate, and compete in advanced technological fields, particularly artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
This participation comes under the auspices of the **Women Empowerment in Cybersecurity Project**, a joint collaboration between **Aswan University** and **Glasgow Caledonian University**, funded by the **British Council**.
This participation represents the culmination of a comprehensive and sustained effort by the project, which began with awareness and guidance programs for young women in Upper Egypt on the importance of cybersecurity and the fundamentals of digital protection. It then evolved into hands-on training and capacity building, culminating in the implementation of the **first Capture The Flag (CTF) competition in Upper Egypt**, with the participation of female and male students from the Faculty of Engineering. This initiative significantly contributed to forming an effective core of young women and men specializing in cybersecurity in Upper Egypt.
In this context, Professor Dr. Mohamed Orabi, Vice President of the University for Graduate Studies and Research, stated that the scientific and academic supervision of the team and the responsibility for implementing the project from the Egyptian side are undertaken by Dr. Ghada Abozaid and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samia Heshmat, under the patronage and follow-up of Professor Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Professor Dr. Mohamed Zakaria, Vice Dean for Student Affairs. This comes within the framework of the Faculty’s ongoing support for student initiatives and projects that promote academic excellence, women’s empowerment, and youth capacity building in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
