Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. - University of New Mexico
Computer Engineering
M.S. - Mansoura University, Egypt
Computer Engineering
Graduate Diploma – Information Technology Institute, Egypt
Software Engineering
B.Sc. - Mansoura University, Egypt
Computer Engineering
Contact Information
Office: 310 Fluor Daniel Building
Office Phone: 864.656.1528
Email: wabdalm@clemson.edu
Biography
I am a Tenured Full Professor at the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. From 2013 to 2023, I was a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Research Director and Distinguished Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute, both are units of USC Viterbi School of Engineering. I am the Founding Director of the USC’s Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory (VIMAL). I received my B.S. in electrical engineering in 1994 and my M.S. in computer engineering in 1997 from Mansoura University in Egypt. I earned a graduate software engineering diploma in 1997 from the Information Technology Institute in Egypt via a scholarship granted to distinguished graduates from Egyptian universities. I obtained my Ph.D. with Distinction from the University of New Mexico in 2003, where I was also awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student award. My research interests include representation learning, debiasing and fair representations, multimedia forensics and visual misinformation identification (such as deepfake and image manipulation detection) and face recognition and biometric anti-spoofing. I lead several multi-institution research efforts, including DARPA’s MediFor, GARD and LwLL and IARPA’s Janus, Odin and BRIAR. I have over 100 publications in top computer vision, machine learning and biometrics conferences and journals, including CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, ACM MM, PAMI, TBIOM and ICB. I am the recipient of the 2022 and 2019 USC Information Sciences Institute Achievement Awards. My research has also been featured in Forbes, Glamour UK, Fox News, Time For Kids and PCMag.
My name is expressed as /waʔill/ using the International Phonetic Alphabet.