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Dr. Irene Samy is an Associate 9781032404691Professor in the Industrial and Service Engineering and Management department, Nile University Cairo, Egypt and the American University in Cairo. Irene has several scientific publications related to investigation of Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymers, reinforcement of Plastic Waste with Treated Natural Fibers, and characterization of natural polymeric nanocomposites. She participated in the Fulbright Junior Faculty program for renewable energy, 2016 and participated in Entrepreneurship and leadership Program, 1000Women, Goldman Sachs, 2016. She received the Newton Mosharfa institutional link award for two years in collaboration with Nottingham University, UK. for manufacturing plastic bags from natural materials. Irene is interested in studying sustainability concepts and is a volunteer in the IEEE Smart Village committee. She is also an active member in the organizing committee for IEEE Conferences such as IEEE Power Africa 2017, where Irene plans to extend the IEEE smart village committee in Egypt to supply solar electricity in poor villages. She is also one of the members in the Events Committee of the IEEE Humanitarian Activities, 2018. She is also the technical chair for the first IEEE SIGHT Egypt ideation camp 2018.

Dr. 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 Co-director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research center (NISC) since September 2021. 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 160 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She has an H-index of 27, as reported by the Scopus database. Her interdisciplinary research interests include modelling, control, optimization techniques, analog and digital integrated circuits, fractional-order circuits and systems, Memristors, 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 technical Chapters of the IEEE Egypt Section and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter 2018-present. She is the Counselor of the IEEE NU student branch 2018-present. She has been the Co-chair of WIE in the IEEE CAS Egypt Technical Chapter since 2021. She won the state encouragement award for the year 2019 in engineering science. She received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher education and Research in 2019 for the best Phd thesis in 2016. She won the Dr Hazem Ezzat Prize for outstanding researcher NU 2019 and 2020. Her name was in the Top 2% of Scientists, According to Stanford Report for 2019, 2020, and 2021. She has received the Recognized Reviewer Award from many international journals. She was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor & Branch Chapter Advisor Award in 2021. In 2022, she received the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) from Fulbright. 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. In 2020, she was elected as the Co-Chair of EYAS. Furthermore, in 2020, she was selected to be an African Academy of Science (AAS) affiliate member. In 2020, she was also chosen to be a Member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). In 2021, she was selected to be a Member of the Council for future studies and risk management, ASRT, Egypt. Additionally, she served on the technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, organized special sessions, and was selected to be a TWAS Young Affiliate. In 2022, she was elected as a steering committee member of AGYA. In 2022, she joined the editorial board of three journals belonging to these publishers: Elsevier, MDPI and Frontiers in Electronics.