Mohamed A Swillam

Mohamed Swillam received the B.Sc. degree with honors in Electronics and Communications Engineering and the M.Sc. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He received his Ph. D from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2008. After graduation he worked as post doctoral fellow in the same group. In October 2009, he joined the photonic group and the institute of optical sciences at the University of Toronto where he works as a research fellow. In September 2011, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the department of Physics, the American University in Cairo (AUC). His research interests include design optimization and sensitivity analysis of active and passive nanophotonic and plasmonic devices and systems, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, integrated optical systems and lab on chip, nano-antenna, optoelectronics, metamaterials, and solar cells. The main applications include biomedical integrated systems, energy harvesting, and telecommunications. He authored more than 380 technical papers in highly ranked journals and conferences in these areas. Dr. Swillam is a recipient of the Nortel Ontario graduate scholarship in science and technology (OGSST), and Ontario graduate scholarship (OGS) in May 2007 and April 2008, respectively. He is also the recipient of best student paper award from IEEE/LEOS Ottawa section for Photonics North 2007 and from ACES 2009 and the Dean’s graduate student award of knowledge translation and innovation from McMaster University in 2009. He recently won the competition for Ontario ministry of research (MRI) fellowship round 5 for 2011. He is also a senior member of the IEEE Photonic society. He is also the founder and the advisor of the optical society of America chapter in the AUC and the vice president of the Egyptian Unit.