Aly El Gamal received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, in 2007, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nile University, Cairo, in 2009, the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and 2014, respectively. He worked as an intern at the Office of the Chief Scientist of Qualcomm Inc. in 2012. He joined the research group of Prof. Salman Avestimehr at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Southern California as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in 2014. His research interests include information, learning and graph theories.