Objective Pain Metric
This work is focused on identifying correlates of individual pain, defining objective pain metrics, and determining changes to the device parameters that provide the user with the greatest impression of relief. A number of data streams will be studied to identify pain correlates from physiological signals, environmental stresses, and individual behavioral responses. These correlates will be used to identify pain metrics, understand the individual patient’s pain experience and how the device parameters can be changed to optimize the sense of change in a manner that is adaptive to the varying needs of the patient.
Role I am the technical leader for developing AI algorithms to define and build an objective pain metric and identifies pain correlates.
IBM Research. Oct 2016 - Oct 2019.
Mohamed Ghalwash is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Ain Shams University and Zewail City of Science, Technology, and Innovation. His research focuses on interpretable machine learning for spatio-temporal pattern discovery, with applications in healthcare analytics, health behavior modeling, and decision support, drawing on prior research leadership at IBM and Temple University. He has supervised eight postgraduate students across Ain Shams University and Zewail City, with thesis topics spanning security applications, Bayesian structure learning, and explainable AI, and currently serves as co-PI on a three-year STDF-funded grant (2026–2029, 2,700,000 LE) developing AI-driven immunoinformatics approaches for Foot-and-Mouth Disease vaccine design.
Alongside his academic research, he brings more than ten years of software engineering leadership across senior roles at IBM, Proteinea, Raya Software, and Asset Technology Group, spanning technical team leadership, software architecture, and large-scale enterprise system delivery. This engineering background has also shaped his applied research, extending into machine learning for security and biotech domains, including cryptanalysis and AI-driven vaccine design.