Yasser Hifny

Yasser Hifny

Professor

Selected Projects

Machine Learning: From Scratch to Mastery

The machine learning textbook is part of the curriculum I instruct at Helwan University. This resource is central to the course I lead on the subject. It serves as the foundational material for students in the program.

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About

Dr. Yasser Hifny is a professor at Helwan University in Egypt, bringing 25 years of industry experience with companies such as RDI, IBM, Nuance, and Cerence. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electronics and communication engineering from Cairo University in 1995 and 2000, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield, U.K., in 2006. His primary research interests include speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing, statistical pattern recognition, and information theory.