Dr. Mahmoud T. El-Hadidi was born in Giza (Egypt) on 18 May 1952. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in July 1973, and October 1976, respectively. He pursued his studies at Princeton University (New Jersey - USA), from which he obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, in October 1977 and October 1979, respectively.

During the period October 1979 till September 1980, Dr. El-Hadidi was a visiting researcher at C & C Central Research Laboratories of NEC (Kawasaki City, Japan). He joined the Teaching Staff at the Department of Electronics and Elec. Communications in Cairo University since October 1980, where he assumed the positions of Assistant Professor (in 1980), Associate Professor (in 1985), and Professor (in 1992).

Dr. El-Hadidi's areas of interest cover a wide scope, including : Modeling and Analysis of Computer Networks, Modeling and Analysis of Telephone Networks, Wireless Networks, and Information Security. He has been the national representative of Egypt in Technical Committee 11 (TC11) of IFIP since 1995. In 2002, Dr. El-Hadidi organized the 17th International Conference on Information Security, sponsored by IFIP, and served as its Secretary General. He has also helped organizing the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT2003) of the Information Technology Institute (ITI) in Egypt, where he served as its Technical Program Chair.

Dr. El-Hadidi contributed more than 80 publications, ranging from books, technical reports, journal papers, conference papers, and short courses. In addition, Dr. El-Hadidi has been active as a consultant for the Egyptian Government and the Egyptian private sector, in relation to many computer network projects. Among these are : the Ministry of Education (MOE) Computer Network, the Egyptian University Network (EUN), the Housing and Building Research Center (HBRC) Computer Network, the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) Computer Network, the Computer Network for Engineering Libraries (CNEL), and others.