{"id":218,"date":"2026-04-08T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/?p=218"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:47:42","slug":"mahmoud-yassin-receives-gsa-scholarship-2025-and-dr-thomas-betz-memorial-award-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/2026\/mahmoud-yassin-receives-gsa-scholarship-2025-and-dr-thomas-betz-memorial-award-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Yassin Receives GSA Scholarship (2025) and Dr. Thomas Betz Memorial Award (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Mahmoud Yassin Receives GSA Scholarship (2025) and Dr. Thomas Betz Memorial Award (2026)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are proud to highlight the recent accomplishments of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/people\/mahmoud-yassin\/\">Mahmoud Yassin<\/a>, a PhD Candidate in the Systems and Computer Engineering Department in 杏吧原创 University, and a member of SCI-Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahmoud has recently received two awards, recognizing his academic excellence and research potential:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>GSA PhD Scholarship (Fall 2025)<\/strong>: awarded by the Graduate Students\u2019 Association at 杏吧原创 University to only 10 outstanding PhD students across all faculties for academic achievement and service to the graduate community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dr. Thomas Betz Memorial Award (2026)<\/strong>: awarded by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs to 3 exceptional graduate students across all faculties (per year) who demonstrate strong scholarly promise and intellectual leadership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahmoud\u2019s research at the Secure Cryptographic Implementations Lab focuses on the design of secure deep learning systems that can operate directly on encrypted data to provide privacy-preserving and quantum-safe computation. His work explores enabling confidential AI inference while protecting both user data and computation models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this research, Mahmoud aims to advance secure and trustworthy AI systems that can be deployed safely in sensitive domains such as cloud services, healthcare, finance, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us in congratulating Mahmoud on these well-deserved recognitions and wishing him continued success in his research journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to highlight the recent accomplishments of Mahmoud Yassin, a PhD Candidate in the Systems and Computer Engineering Department in 杏吧原创 University, and a member of SCI-Lab. Mahmoud has recently received two awards, recognizing his academic excellence and research potential: Mahmoud\u2019s research at the Secure Cryptographic Implementations Lab focuses on the design of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"award"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sci-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}