Hello, I'm Ahmed Shalaby

I’m a second year PhD student in DNA computing and Theoretical Computer Science at Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland. I work with my supervisor Professor Damien Woods in the TAPDANCE research group where we carry out fundamental research on molecular computers.

My current work focuses on analyzing the thermodynamic properties of DNA systems by designing an efficient algorithms that are able to predict how these systems will behave. I am also interested in kinetic analysis and conducting wet-lab experiments to see if we can speed up some computational DNA systems.

Previously, during my Masters, my work focused on computer vision, and how to use deep learning to bulid more efficient authentication systems for IoT environments based on iris recognition.