Tales from University
I studied at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, and graduated in July 2025. This journey was filled with incredible experiences, so let’s walk down memory lane!
Joining the Open Source Community
Starting my junior year, I decided to give student activities a shot, and stumbled across a student activity that revolves around open source software and philosophy, its motto being “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. Being a Linux enthusiast, I joined the Linux committee, where I met awesome people and learned a lot about the system I thought I knew like the back of my hand.
I went on to lead the committee during my senior year, during which we taught our new members the foundations of Linux system administration. Together, we organized workshops and training programs, built Taskinator, and had a ton of fun along the way.
This is me instructing a session about Linux processes during the 2024 summer training. The image
may be blurry but the memory is clear and dear.
Our Graduation Project, QuesGenie
For our graduation project, we built a mobile app for generating quizzes from study materials in text, image and audio formats, relying on Transformers for question and answer generation. You can read the paper here.
This was our first time building a project of this scale, bringing it from plan to production. It helped me see software engineering with a new, broader lens.
Cover page of our graduation project documentation. Written, printerd and presented very
painstakingly, but the efforts were well worth it.