Dr. Mohamed El-Hadedy is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the founding director of the Reconfigurable Space Computing Lab (RSCL). His research lies at the intersection of autonomic systems, UAV reliability, post-quantum cryptography, and adaptive hardware/software co-design for space and defense applications.

Dr. El-Hadedy leads multiple federally funded projects, including a U.S. Navy grant on accelerating NLP in drone swarms using Kubernetes-based orchestration, a DOD initiative on energy-efficient secure computing with FPGA clusters, and an AFRL-sponsored effort to create a new generation of flight controllers infused with edge AI and lightweight cryptography.

His lab has been a multi-year finalist in NASA MINDS, with teams pioneering CubeSat drones, ionic thrusters, and Tesla coil-enabled UAV systems. Dr. El-Hadedy’s recent research introduces runtime thermal and vibration-based diagnostics for autonomous aerial platforms, integrating LLMs, YOLO, and cryptographic primitives in real-time edge deployments.

He holds multiple U.S. patents, several best paper awards (SoCC, IEEE conferences), and is passionate about building systems that adapt, heal, and secure themselves at the edge — from Earth to orbit.