Program Director
Lobna A. Said (Senior Member IEEE 2020) is a full-time Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Nile University (NU). She is currently the director of the Microelectronics System Design Master Program (MSD) and the co-director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center (NISC) 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 150 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She has an H-index of 26, as reported by the Scopus database. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, including modelling, control, optimization techniques, analog and digital integrated circuits, fractional-order circuits and systems, Memristors, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory.
She was involved in many national/international research grants as PI, Co-PI, or a senior researcher/ member. She is the vice-chair of the Technical Chapters of the IEEE Egypt section, and the vice-chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter since 2018. She has been the counselor of the IEEE NU student branch since 2018 and the co-chair of WIE in the IEEE CAS Egypt Technical Chapter since 2021.
Lobna A. Said has been recognized by different entities for her continuous hard work; 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 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 2022, she received the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) from Fulbright.
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 many technical and organizing committees of many international conferences and organized special sessions, and was selected to be a TWAS Young Affiliate. In 2022, she was elected as a steering committee member of AGYA.