Staff Profile

Prof. Diaa Abdel Majeed Mohamed Khalil

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Biography

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Diaa Khalil obtained his PhD from INPG France in 1993. He is Professor in the Faculty of Eng., Ain Shams University since 2004. He was the head of the Optical MEMS group in MEMSCAP from 2000 to 2004 and the founder of the RET group in Mentor Graphics Egypt from 2004-2007. Since 2007 he is the CTO of the MEMS division at Si-ware Systems leading a group developing an innovative optical MEMS spectrometer, a product that gained the Prism award in the Photonics west conference 2014 in SF USA. Prof. Diaa Khalil is a member in the SPIE, and a senior member in the OSA and IEEE photonic society. He is inventor of about 15 patents, author of more than 190 scientific publications and holder of Egyptian state prize in engineering sciences in 1998. He is currently head of the Dept of Electronics and Comm. Eng. in the Faculty of Eng. Ain Shams University and head of commission D in the National Radio Science Committee, NRSC, in the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology ASRT in Egypt.