Nile University (NU) organized on June 8th, 2010, its first Research Day hosted at the NU campus in El-Sheikh Zayed City.

“The Research Day was intended to provide an open dialogue with national academic, industry and business communities to ensure relevance of research work and to maximize its impact on economic development and competitiveness”, says Dr. Hazem Ezzat NU’s V.P. for Research.

The event was honored by the visit of their Excellencies, Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Hani Helal, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Eng. Alaa Fahmy, Minister of Transport who toured NU's research exhibits.

Throughout the day, the six NU research centers exhibited their research projects and achievements allowing discussions with the community at large. In addition, sessions was delivered by NU’s faculty and research scientists covering contemporary research topics: “Wireless Technology: Present and Future”, “Informatics Science: Bringing Order to Chaos”, “Electronics System Design: Up and Down the Nanoscale”, and “Nanotechnology: A Game Changer”.

“Research shaping the future is a mere fact.” adding, Dr. Tarek Khalil, NU’s President and Provost says, “the distinguishing difference between countries with developed economies and those with developing ones is the mastery of technology and the ability to convert know-how into value-added products and services traded in local and international markets. NU has launched six specialized research center intending to carry its mission to conduct leading edge research.”

Twenty two research assistants and five faculty members in NU’s Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) presented their state of the art research work on wireless communications. WINC has several research thrusts with the objective of designing new algorithms and systems that allow more users to access the wireless medium, provide higher data rates, increase efficiency and offer new and enhanced services. The center's research activities are supported by the Wireless Technologies graduate program offered at NU in collaboration with Ohio State University.

Exploring the application of information technology in health, agriculture and environment, NU’s Center for Informatics Science (CIS) exhibited projects for its six research groups; the Bioinformatics group that develops novel software tools for the analysis and integration of biological data, the Data Mining and Machine Learning group, the High Performance Computing group, the Medical Image Processing group that develops novel methods for noninvasive, sensitive, and precise imaging method for detecting and diagnosing diseases, the Peer-To-Peer Networking group, and finally the Ubiquitous Computing group.

The Center for Innovation and Competitiveness (CIC) demonstrated studies on improving competitiveness in Egypt and the MENA region. CIC works on identifying, researching and promoting innovation practices at the company, industry and country levels.

Part of NU’s vision is engaging with the industry in the region, as well as international corporations. The Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC) operates with major support from industries such as Intel and Mentor Graphics. NISC adopts the view that the training of students is a joint endeavor between the center and industry. It is fundamental that the curriculum, research, and development efforts are done in close contact with industry to meet their needs. Thus preparing well trained human resources and securing a share for Egypt in the fast-growing global electronics industry and economy. The center’s projects are about the design and testing phases of electronic product development.

Addressing the Egyptian transportation challenges, NU launched the Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center (ITS), which links communications technology, management mechanisms, transport planning, and engineering. The ITS main objectives are safety and efficiency of the system.

Finally, aiming at strengthening Egypt's regional leadership initiatives in nanotechnology, NU launched the Center for Nanotechnology (CNT), which tackles the wide variety of applications in technologies that could be implemented through the use of the nanoscale.