Prof. Raafat Shalaby
Program Director of Master of Science in Mechatronics Engineering (MECT)
Dr. Raafat Shalaby is a Full Professor of Intelligent Control Systems at the Mechanical Engineering Program, Nile University. With over 20 years in academia, he has held leadership roles, including Director of the Mechatronics Master’s Program at Nille University (2022–present) and former Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at Nile University (2020–2022).
He earned his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany, in 2011, following a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Automatic Control from Menofia University.
Prof. Shalaby has a rich teaching portfolio, having taught undergraduate and graduate courses across major Egyptian institutions. His teaching philosophy centers on inspiring students to exceed their limits through discipline and perseverance.
His interdisciplinary research spans intelligent control systems, fractional-order modeling, meta-heuristic optimization, and machine- and reinforcement learning—particularly for mechatronic and biomedical applications. He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications and currently supervises numerous M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses.