CV

Basics

Name Eslam Abdelaleem
Label Postdoctoral Fellow
Email eslam.abdelaleem@gatech.edu
Url https://eslam-abdelaleem.github.io
Summary Physicist exploring the intersection of neuroscience, statistical physics, and machine learning. Developing principled, information-theoretic tools to extract meaning from high-dimensional neural data.

Work

  • 2025.08 - 2026.05
    Lecturer
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Co-instructing 'Physics of Cognition' (Fall 2025, Spring 2026).
  • 2024.09 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Schools of Physics and Psychology. Advisor: Dr. Audrey Sederberg.
    • Developing deep learning tools for quantifying neural dynamics.
  • 2019.08 - 2024.05
    Teaching Assistant
    Emory University
    Instructed labs for Introductory Physics (Mechanics, E&M, Optics) and Statistical Inference.

Education

  • 2019.08 - 2024.05
    Ph.D.
    Emory University
    Physics
    • Advisor: Dr. Ilya Nemenman
    • Dissertation: Simultaneous Dimensionality Reduction for Extracting Useful Representations of Large Empirical Multimodal Datasets
  • 2015.09 - 2019.08
    B.Sc.
    University of Science and Technology at Zewail City
    Physics of Earth and Universe
    • Thesis: Monte Carlo simulations in statistical physics: Wang-Landau sampling

Awards

Volunteer

  • 2026.01 - Present
    Reviewer
    Georgia Tech
    President's Undergraduate Research Award (Spring 2026)
  • 2025.05 - Present
    Judge
    Georgia Tech
    Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium (Neuroscience Session)
  • 2020.08 - Present
    Board of Trustees Member
    Zewail City Alumni Association
    Serving on the board of the alumni association.

Interests

Research Focus
Computational Neuroscience
Statistical Physics
Machine Learning
Dimensionality Reduction
Information Theory

References

Dr. Audrey Sederberg
Postdoctoral Advisor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Ilya Nemenman
PhD Advisor, Emory University