How to be Positive in Difficult Times Workshop by Dr. Lobna A. Said
July 13, 2021, Online workshop through Zoom about How to be Positive in Difficult Times. By Dr, Lobna A. Said is a full-time Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Nile University (NU).
She has been the Microelectronics System Design Master Program (MSD) director and the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research center (NISC) Co-director since September 2021. She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical communications from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively. She has over 125 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters.
She has an H-index of 22, as reported by the Scopus database. Her interdisciplinary research interests include modeling, control, optimization techniques, analog, and digital integrated circuits, fractional-order circuits and systems, Memristors, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory. Based on the Scival database, Dr. Lobna is in the top 5 authors worldwide for the research tracks " Fractional Order; Differentiators; Low Pass Filters (T.21555)" part of Topic Cluster TC.522 - Fractional; Fractional Order; Derivatives. She was involved in many national/international research grants as PI, Co-PI, or a Senior Researcher/ Member. She is the Vice-Chair of research activities at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter 2018-present.
She is the Counselor of the IEEE NU student branch 2018-present. She has been the Co-chair of WIE in the IEEE CAS Egypt Technical Chapter since 2021. She won the state encouragement award for the year 2019. She received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher education and Research in 2016. She won the Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for the outstanding researcher NU 2019 and 2020. She is one of the top 10 researchers at NU for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. Her name was in the Top 2% of Scientists According to Stanford Report for 2019, released in 2020.
She has received the Recognized Reviewer Award from many international journals. She was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor & Branch Chapter Advisor Award in 2021. In 2019, she was selected as a member of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) to empower and encourage young Egyptian scientists in science and technology and build knowledge-based societies.
In 2020, she was elected as the Co-Chair of EYAS. Furthermore, in 2020, she was selected to be an African Academy of Science (AAS) affiliate member. In 2020, she was also chosen to be a Member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). In 2021, she was selected to be a Member of the Council for future studies and risk management, ASRT, Egypt. Additionally, she served on the technical and organizing committees of many international conferences and organized special sessions.
