Diaa Khalil

Prof. Diaa Khalil has over 35 years of experience in micro photonics systems, including integrated optoelectronics and optical MEMS technology. He obtained his PhD from INPG France in 1993. Diaa Khalil is a Professor of photonics in the Faculty of Eng., Ain Shams University since 2004. In 2015 He was the Head of the ECE Dept., and in 2017 He became the Vice dean of Research and Post Graduate. From 2019 to Feb. 2021, he was the Acting dean of the School of Engineering. From 2021 he was the Chief Advisor of the Innovation cycle and iHUb @ Ain Shams University. He was the CEO of the Innovators Support Fund ISF in the Ministry of higher education and scientific research in Egypt from April 2023 to July 2024. He introduced the courses of Integrated Optics, Optical MEMS, and Applied Optical Engineering for the post-graduate engineering students. He is also leading a group of scientists working in the fields of Photonic microsystems. He supervised more than 80 MSc and PhD thesis in the fields of: Optics, Optoelectronics, Applied Spectroscopy, Optical MEMS and integrated Optics. Diaa Khalil was also the CTO of the Optical MEMS Division in Si-Ware Systems from 2007 - 2020, leading a group of talented engineers developing an innovative FTIR MEMS spectrometer, a unique product that gained the Prism award in the Photonics West conference 2014 in SF USA. Prior to joining SWS, he worked with MEMScAP company as the head of the optical MEMS design group where he led the design and characterization of a 2×2 switch, and introduced a novel VOA (variable Optical Attenuator) achieving the world record of minimum PDL reported for wide dynamic range. Prof. Diaa Khalil is a holder of the Egyptian state incentive prize in engineering sciences in 1998, and the Egyptian State Appreciation prize in 2021. He is a senior member in the OSA, the SPIE, the IEEE Photonic Society, and the URSI. He is associate editor in the Journal IEEE- PTL and a member in the editorial board of the journal, “Light: Science and Applications - Nature Publishing Group NPG. He is inventor of about 20 granted international patents and more than 10 other patent applications. He is author and co-author of more than 330 publications, in international journals and conferences, in addition to 5 book chapters and 1 ebook published by SPIE. Specialties: R & D management, innovation