Hadi has been at AUC since 2000 when he was appointed professor in the mathematics department. In 2006, he was appointed vice provost and director of graduate studies and research. He is an active member of the university community and, in addition to serving on numerous academic committees, was also instrumental in the creation of a new major in actuarial science at AUC.

Prior to joining AUC, Hadi served as a Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Statistics at Cornell University. He is currently professor emeritus at Cornell University where he was chair of the Department of Social Statistics. He was also a member of Cornell's Graduate Field of Statistics and the Department of Statistical Science.
 
Sedky received the award for the diverse, cutting-edge quality of his work. The committee noted that Sedky is “enormously productive and is making huge advances internationally. He has received patents for his work, attesting to the links his work has with the industry.”

Sedky, who was awarded the prestigious Egyptian National Award in Advanced Technological Sciences in 2002, has been a constant contributor to the field of Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) since its emergence in the mid-1990s. MEMS combines mechanical and electronic technology on a dramatically reduced scale to enable ground-breaking advances in the automotive, communication, satellite and health industries, among many others.

Sedky received his BSc and his MSc degree from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. In 1995, he began an association with the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium and earned his PhD degree in microelectronics in 1998 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he later became post-doctoral fellow and visiting professor. From 1999 to 2002 he served as assistant professor at Cairo University and in 2002 he served as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sedky is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Materials Research Society. He holds six patents and has authored and coauthored more than 50 international publications in the fields of design, fabrication and monolithic integration of Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS). He is also the author of Post-processing Techniques for Integrated MEMS. Currently, he is establishing a MEMS fabrication facility at AUC’s Science and Technology Research Center (STRC).