Prof. Diaa A.M. Khalil

Prof. Diaa Khalil has over 40 years of experience in micro photonics systems, including integrated optoelectronics and optical MEMS technology. He obtained his PhD from INPG France in 1993 and since 2004 he is a full Professor of photonics in the Faculty of Eng., Ain Shams University. He is inventor of about 20 granted patents in the US patent office and similar numbers in the Europe, China and Japan patent offices in addition to more than 20 patent applications. He is author and co-author of more than 400 publications, in international journals and conferences, in addition to 5 book chapters and 1 ebook published by SPIE. He is also a member in the editorial board of the journal, “Light: Science and Applications - Nature Publishing Group NPG. He supervised more than 80 MSc and PhD thesis in: Optics, Optoelectronics, Spectroscopy, Optical MEMS and integrated Optics.
He was the CTO of the Optical MEMS Division in Si-Ware Systems from 2007 to 2020, leading the development of a unique FTIR MEMS spectrometer, that gained the Prism award in the Photonics West Conf. 2014 in SF USA. He also 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 engineering science in 2021 and Ain Shams Appreciation prize in 2022. He is a senior member in the OSA, the SPIE, the IEEE Photonic Society, and URSI. He was the Head of the ECE Dept., in the Engineering school at Ain Shams and in 2017 He became the Vice dean of Research and Postgraduate and from 2019 to Feb. 2021, the Acting dean of the School of Engineering. From 2023 he became the CEO of the Innovator Support Fund reporting to the ministry of Higher education in Egypt.