Lobna Said

Biography

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 the director of the Microelectronics System Design Master Program (MSD) and the former co-director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center (NISC) (2021-2024). She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD in electronics and electrical communications from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively. She has over 225 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. Her interdisciplinary research interests include smart systems, hardware accelerators, data encryption, energy harvesting, fractional-order circuits and systems, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory.

She was involved in many national/international research grants as a PI, co-PI, or senior researcher/member.

She is the vice-chair of the technical chapters of the IEEE Egypt Section and the chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter. She is vice chair of the IEEE System Council Egypt Chapter. She has been the counsellor of the IEEE NU student branch since 2018. She has been the co-chair of WIE in the IEEE CAS Egypt Technical Chapter since 2021. She is a Member of the IEEE CASS Digital Communications Standing Committee. In 2025, she was elected IEEE Africa Council Secretary.

She won the State Encouragement Award in Engineering Science for 2019. She received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher Education and Research in 2019 for her best PhD thesis, completed in 2016. She won the Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for Outstanding Researcher at NU in 2019 and 2020 She has received the recognised reviewer award from many international journals. She was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counsellor & Branch Chapter Advisor Award in 2021. In 2022, she received a Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) award. In 2023, she received the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) fellowship from the University of Pretoria and the Global Young Academy, with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. In 2025, she received the U.S.-Africa Frontiers Fellowship Award.

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. She was elected as the Co-Chair of EYAS (2020-2023). Furthermore, in 2020, she was selected as an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). In 2020, she was also chosen as a Member of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). She was elected to serve on the AGYA steering committee for two years (2022-2024). From 2023 to 2024, she served as the co-president of AGYA. She was selected to be a Member of the Council for Future Studies and Risk Management, ASRT, Egypt (2021-2028). She was chosen to be a Member of the Egypt-US Exchange Alumni Council (2025-2026). She serves on the Advisory Board of the Skills and Employability Enhancement Center (SEEC) at Nile University. In 2023, she was elected a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). In 2025, she was elected as a Regional Member to represent the Arab Region on the OWSD Executive Board.

Additionally, she served on the technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, organized special sessions, and was selected as a TWAS Young Affiliate. She joined the editorial boards of Four journals published by Elsevier, MDPI, and Frontiers.

Awards