Dr. El-Shekeil is a dedicated researcher and expert in the field of enterprise networks and data centers, as well as a passionate educator with over 20 years of work experience. His research interests focus on improving the availability and resiliency of digital services by minimizing the impact of outages, especially those related to cybersecurity. Dr. El-Shekeil's current research focuses on reducing the scope of outages resulting from cyberattacks and studying multi-party configuration diagnosis to detect conflicts in configurations across multiple systems.

As an educator, Dr. El-Shekeil is committed to helping students build their practical and self-learning abilities. He stimulates students to elevate their motivation and interest in each course’s topics to maximize their learning and uses different methods to convey the message. Dr. El-Shekeil evaluates students based on projects, labs, and exams throughout the semester and emphasizes self-learning and critical thinking. He is empathetic and lends an ear to students, making himself available to help them when unforeseen situations arise.

Overall, Dr. El-Shekeil's research and teaching activities are driven by his passion for improving the availability and resiliency of digital services and helping students build their practical and self-learning abilities.