Sayed Hemeda

Professor Sayed Hemeda obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the manager of Heritage Science Programs at the Liberal Art and Culture Centre (LACC), and a professor at the Basic and Applied Science Institute (BAS), Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST). He is the first Professor of Heritage Science and Architectural Preservation of Architectural Heritage, Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt. He is also the former manager of the Historic Buildings Conservation Center, Cairo University. He is the recipient of many awards from Cairo University, including prizes for scientific excellence (2017), Prize of Scientific encourage (2014), and best PhD thesis (2009-2010). He was also awarded the 2019 Union of Arab Archaeologists Prize for Academic Excellence.   He has published eighty-five articles and thirty-three books. He has given more than fifty-eight invited lectures in sixteen countries. His primary interests are geotechnical engineering for architectural heritage preservation and engineering data analysis including pattern recognition as applied to primarily analytical data from various sources such as objects of cultural significance.  He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Advances in Geological and Geotechnical Research. He is also an editorial board member for many organizations and publications including publishers like Springer Nature, IntechOpen, and Bentham, and journals such as Open Journal of Geology, Progress of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Geoscience Journal. Dr. Hemeda is a scientific and organization committee member for many international conferences.