Ahmed Al Sunbati

About Me

I'm Ahmed Al Sunbati, but I just go by Moussa. I'm a mathematics enthusiast, aspiring software engineer, part-time philosopher, and writer. I graduated from STEM High School for Boys – 6th of October and currently a freshman @ Dartmouth College. Hopefully, I'm pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, but I'm also excited to explore courses beyond them such as in philosophy, music and possibly a minor in Japanese languauge & Asian Cultures.

Academics

(This section has not been updated yet. The information provided is that of my high school years)

4.0

Cummulative GPA

Out of 4.0 unweighted GPA through the 3 years of high school.

GPA

35

ACT

36 Math, 35 Science, 34 English, and 33 Reading.

ACT

114

TOEFL iBT

30 Reading, 30 Listening, 27 Writing, 27 Speaking.

TOEFL iBT

My Projects

Variable Stars Visualizer

The stars above are constantly changing, but usually these changes are too slow or too faint for the eye to see. The project is a web-application aiming at visualizing 100 stars from the General Catalogue For Variable Stars with interactive interface.

Neural Style Transfer Project, Van Gogh

An art/deep learning project for generating starry-night-style pictures of STEM High School For Boys. The technique depends on copying the style of a base image and composing the image desired in that style.

Elliptic Curves, A Comprehensive Library

The Software provides opportunity to investigte the mathematical structure of elliptic curves (adding points, scalar multiples, generator points...etc). The software is also equipped with an encryption and decryption scheme based on El Gamal Encryption.

VPython Simulations

The project consists of 8 simulations for physical systems: Electric field lines for different charge distributions; a simulation for space contraction as a result of very high speeds; a simulation for a solar system of two planets of crossing orbits and a star.

Publications & Books

Publication

Under Supervision of professor Nuh Aydin of Kenyon College

An Analysis of Elliptic Curves Cryptography and its Prospects in a Post-Quantum Future (Pioneer Academics Research)

Since its pioneer in 1977, RSA has dominated cryptosystems. The security of RSA depends on the hardness of the problem of factoring large integers. In this study, we investigate another kind of cryptosystems based on elliptic curves. This paper aims to understand the group structure of points on an elliptic curves. Cryptosystems based on elliptic curves depend on the hardness of the elliptic curve version of the Discrete Logarithm Problem. The efficiency and security of EC-based cryptosystems is compared with that of RSA. It has been found that ECC provides equivalent level of security with much smaller key sizes and total encryption and decryption time. Furthermore, an investigation of Isogeny-based Cryptography is carried out to explore the viability of ECC in a post-quantum cryptography

The Calculus of The Circle

A TREATISE OF DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS

October Math Circle Competitions (OMCC)

Sparked by a common passion for mathematics, the first math circle in Egypt was initiated by group of 8 high-school students at STEM High School for Boys. The project aims at adavancing the study of mathematics in Egypt. In general education in Egypt, emphasis is placed on memorizing certain techinques to solve a specialized kind of problems. We aim to shed light on a different perspective of mathematics that focuses more on proof-based solutions and general problem-solving techinques. The first edition of the book contains topics from Limits to applications of integrals. Each topic is cultivated carefully, drawing elements from real analysis, focusing more on the scratch work to get good intuitions for solving problems and creative problem-solving techniques.

Thermodynamics Handbook

Physics Club

This handbook was prepared as a part of the thermodynamics course at the official STEM October Physics Club. It's aimed at an intensive introductory course of thermodynamics and statistcal mechanics to prepare high school students for international competitions such as Physics Brawl and IPhO . The handbook touches topics on the basics of temperature, heat transfer, and calorimetry. It further explores the thermal molecular properties of matter (The relation between the kinetic energy of the molecules of a gas and its temperature). Furthermore, we investigate the applications of the laws of thermodynamics to engines and refrigrators.

Blog

What Is A Myth?

In primitive societies, mythology infilitrated every aspect of society, engraved deeply into the soul of each individual in the society to the degree that deconstructing the mythology of a society was equivalent to deconstructing the society itself and its death.

Descrates' First Meditation

What is the truth? Is it the set of beliefs we are endowed with when we were born? How many times did we find that something we used to believe as children turned out to be some kind work of a devil trying to decieve us?

Descrates' Second Meditation

So, in the last meditation we reached a dead-end. Descartes decided that everything that was taken for granted to be true is not any less false than the myth of Santa Claus. The corporal nature of the world was no longer evident and clear as it once seemed to be.