Alaa Mahjoub is an independent Digital Business Advisor and Operational Technology SME with decades of experience in electric utilities, petroleum, transportation, and defense. His expertise extends across governmental and private sector organizations in the EMEA, the Far East, and the United States. Over his career, Alaa has actively contributed to Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS), Digital Business Transformation, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Data and Analytics (D&A), as well as Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I). He has spearheaded critical initiatives in these areas at TRANSCO, ADCO, DoT, Injazat Data Systems, and the Egyptian and Kuwaiti Ministries of Defense. Alaa holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Military Technical College (MTC) and Cairo University. He has authored, lectured, and reviewed numerous research papers for the IEEE, Cigre, the Arab Union of Electricity, and the SPE. His current research interests are in Cyber-Physical Systems and Generative AI.
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