Ahmed Abd El Aziz was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He obtained his BSc in Electronics and Communications at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in 2003. He was then appointed as a teaching assistant at the same university. He received his MSc degree from the same university in 2006.

He then joined the Optical Communication Research Group (OCRG) at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and achieved his PhD in 2012. In the same year, he joined the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport as a lecturer, and in 2013, he founded the Photonic Research Laboratory (PRL).

He became an associate professor in June 2016 and a professor in June 2020. He supervises many research students in Egypt and the UK and has published over 50 papers. He was appointed as the Vice Dean for student affairs in the College of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology AAST and acted as Vice Dean for practical training, as well as Vice Dean for higher education and research, in November 2019. In February 2023, Prof. Ahmed was appointed as the Head of the Electronics and Communications Department at the College of Engineering and Technology.

He is a reviewer for several IEEE and IET conferences and journals, as well as an invited speaker at international conferences. He has also helped in organizing a few IEEE conferences and is currently a member of the technical committee of IEEE conferences. His research interests involve Passive Optical Networks, Optical Communications, All-Optical Routing, LTE, Radio over Fiber (RoF), Free Space Optics (FSO), Visible Light Communications (VLC), Photonic Devices, Li-F, Photonic Signal Processing, LED-LED, and optical in Biomedical Applications.

Prof. Ahmed has been the IEEE AAST-Student Branch Alexandria Counselor since summer 2015. The branch won many prizes as the best branch and best events in the Egypt section and the region 8.