Ahmed graduated from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cairo University in June 2011. He then worked as a system design engineer in Newport Media Inc. (now part of Atmel corporation) before joining the Photonics group at UofT in September 2012. Since then, Ahmed has been working towards his M.A.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Mo Mojahedi; where his research interests include: mapping the evolution of energy and information in causal dispersive media, with emphasis on utilizing superluminal effects to reduce signal detection latency in optical interconnects.