Hussein F. Salama is the Director of Microsoft’s Advanced Technology Lab in Cairo, Egypt. His main responsibilities are to setup the lab for long-term success and growth and to enable the lab’s applied researchers and engineers to perform at their best. 

Prior to joining Microsoft, Hussein was the Founder and President of Citex Software, a startup that built an open source mobile advertising platform that was the first of such product on the global market. Before Citex Software, Hussein was the Chief Operating Officer of SySDSoft, an Egyptian startup in the wireless communications space that was eventually acquired by Intel.

Hussein started his professional career at Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, where he took on technical leadership roles in engineering and consulting. Hussein worked on Cisco’s first generation of VoIP products and led the integration between VoIP and Layer 3 protocols. His work on VoIP call routing is well recognized and has resulted in both patents and standards. Besides his standards activities, Hussein co-authored several tier-one conference and journal papers and he has seven issued US patents.

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Hussein received his BSc from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1990 and his MSc and PhD in Computer Engineering in 1993 and 1996 from North Carolina State University. In 2002, Hussein earned his MBA from San Jose State University, California.

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