Technology for Good: Faculty Explores the Emerging Applications of Mobile and ICT for Human Betterment January 20, 2021 Reem Abouemera “My prime objective since my return to Egypt in 2009 was to conduct research that not only advances the body of global knowledge in my field but also addresses problems relevant to Egypt,” said Tamer ElBatt, professor and director of the computer science graduate program. “Two directions my research group has been active on are IoT systems (for remote health monitoring) and opportunistic social networks for contact/proximity detection and tracking using smartphones, which are becoming more prevalent in the COVID-19 period.” Last October, ElBatt was globally recognized as one of the top 2% most impactful scientists globally in the Stanford-Elsevier's Scopus database of the most cited scientists. The list is created by experts at Stanford University based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus and includes the top 2% scientists in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields.