Teaching, blog & webinars
Teaching, blog and webinars
My courses, invited talks and supervision, my blog posts, and the educational webinars I have organised and hosted for Egypt Scholars Inc. since 2023, from inviting the speaker to publishing the recording, plus an earlier one with the GUC Innovators student team.
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Teaching
Courses, workshops and supervision
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Course Oct 2024 – Present Engineering with Generative AI
Course coordinator and lecturer · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau · DFKI DSA · 300+ students
Annual course led by Prof. Sebastian Vollmer, with support from AWS, on how generative AI and LLMs are reshaping engineering: foundations of GenAI and LLMs; hands-on projects such as sentiment-analysis tools, GPT-based character models and AI-driven applications; guest lectures and labs with Amazon Web Services; prompt engineering, LangChain, Dify and Neo4j; and a critical look at the societal impacts and risks of generative AI. Open to UniGR partner universities. I coordinate the course, prepare the assignments and give lectures and tutorials.
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Workshop Jan 2026 DSA Coding Workshop: AI-assisted development
Instructor · DFKI / RPTU
Three-part hands-on workshop: automation with RPTU's LLM infrastructure, building a personal website with an AI IDE, and agentic engineering with CLI agents and reusable skills.
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Teaching assistant Sept 2021 – Jun 2022 CSEN 501 Database Systems · CSEN 403 Concepts of Programming Languages
Teaching and research assistant · German University in Cairo, Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology
Database Systems covers the relational model, ER/EER design, relational database design and SQL. Concepts of Programming Languages compares paradigms, syntax, semantics, type systems and implementation methods. Fifteen tutorials a week across both courses, plus grading, material preparation and supervision of four bachelor theses.
- Teaching assistant Sept 2018 – Dec 2019
CSEN 102 Introduction to Computer Science · CSEN 301 Data Structures and Algorithms
Junior teaching assistant · German University in Cairo
Invited talks and tutorials
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Invited talk Exploring Multi-Agent Systems Oct 2025
Invited guest lecture · University of Prince Mugrin, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Guest lecture for the university's artificial intelligence students on how intelligent agents and large language models are shaping AI, at the invitation of Dr. Ahmed Elhayek, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department.
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Invited talk Exploring Multi-Agent Systems Jul 2025
Invited guest speaker · GUC Connects workshop “Empowering the Future”, German International University, Berlin
Invited talk at the workshop “Empowering the Future: A Journey into AI and Data Science for Innovative Minds”, joined by participants of “Revolutionizing Software Development with AI”. An introduction to AI agents and how they work together in multi-agent systems: core concepts, common uses and main challenges. Part of a DFKI session with Dr. Sergey Redyuk, at the invitation of Assoc. Prof. Mervat AbuElkheir.
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Summer school Language Models and Structured Knowledge in AI Sept 2024
Instructor (Track A, Large AI Models), with Gerrit Großmann · IDESSAI 2024, Inria–DFKI European Summer School on AI
Integrating LLMs with structured knowledge such as knowledge graphs to make their output more accurate and reliable, and extracting structured data from language models. Participants left with a simple working prototype that combines an LLM with a knowledge graph.
Supervision
Beyond courses, I supervise seminars, project modules and theses offered by the DFKI DSA group at RPTU.
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Project module Autonomous Agentic Systems
Project supervisor · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, offered by the DFKI DSA group
Students design and build autonomous agent systems in an iterative, hands-on semester project. I supervise student projects.
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Seminar Literature Review Seminar
Seminar supervisor · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, offered by the DFKI DSA group
Students find and review the literature on current AI topics and build essential research skills. I supervise seminar topics.
Supervised theses
- M.Sc. Enhancing document information extraction annotation with LLMs — Ali Elhosary, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Jul 2026
- M.Sc. Fuzzy fault tree analysis with large language models as expert input — Mohamed Yassine Kchaou, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Apr 2026
- B.Sc. Enhancing table extraction from complex documents using vision-language models — Kurt Klinkigt, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Mar 2026
- B.Sc. Smart bike: intrusion detection system — Ahmed Ali, German University in Cairo, Jun 2022
- B.Sc. Smart bike: secure B2X communication — Noureldin Awad, German University in Cairo, Jun 2022
- B.Sc. Smart bike: obstacle detection and avoidance — Omar Elnagar, German University in Cairo, Jun 2022
- B.Sc. Smart bike: green route path finding — Mariam Seoudi, German University in Cairo, Jun 2022
Blog
Writing
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Try Privacy Guardrail: keep personal data out of your AI chats
A free, open-source Chrome extension from our team at DFKI that catches personal data before you paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Please try it, rate it and tell us what breaks.
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Protecting LLM systems from prompt attacks
My article in Hakin9 Magazine's issue "LLM Mayhem – Hackers' New Anthem" on the main types of prompt attacks and how to defend against them at the model, prompt and system level.
Egypt Scholars · GUC Innovators
Hosted webinars
8 webinars · 9 hours 
