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Sherif Sedky was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1969. He received the B.Sc. degree, with honors, in electronics engineering in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in engineering physics in 1995 both from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics in 1998 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In 1995 he joined the MEMS group of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven (Belgium). During the academic year 1999-2000, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and a visiting professor at the same university during Summer 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2002 he was a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In Summer 2009, 2010 and 2011 he was a visiting Professor at Stanford University. In February 2004 he has been promoted to associate professor and to full professor in 2008. He served as the director of Yousef Jameel Science and Technology Research Center, and associate dean for graduate studies and research at The American University in Cairo.
In 2012 Dr. Sedky has been selected by late Nobel Laureate Dr. Ahmed Zewail to serve as the founding Provost of Zewail City, Egypt’s National Project for Scientific Renaissance. Then in 2015, he served as the Provost of The American University in Cairo. In 2017, he was appointed as the Executive president of Zewail City where he is currently leading this position.
The research expertise of Dr. Sedky is centered around the design, modeling fabrication and characterization of micro/nano electromechanical systems where he managed to have a significant contribution to the field as reflected in more than 100 scientific papers published in prestigious international journals and leading international conferences in the field. In addition, Dr. Sedky holds 19 patents related to the development of the miniaturized devices that are critical for strategic applications such as night vision systems, high precision motion sensors, energy harvesters. The high precision motion system that Dr. Sedky developed had an extremely high resolution reaching the physical limits of the device. Such device has been transferred to Saudi Arabia within the collaboration framework with King Abdulla University for Science and Technology. His H-index is 24 and his work was cited more than 2100 times according to Google Scholar.
He is a member in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He holds thirteen patents and authored and coauthored over one hundred international publications and a book chapter in the field of design, fabrication and monolithic integration of MEMS with the driving electronics using polycrystalline silicon germanium as a structural material. He is the author of the book titled: “Post-processing techniques for integrated MEMS”. He established a MEMS fabrication facility at The Science and Technology Research Center at The American University in Cairo.
He is a recipient of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize in 2014, and the 2007 Excellence in research and creative endeavors award. He is also a recipient of the Egyptian state merit award in advanced technological sciences in 2002, and the graduate studies award from Cairo University in 1996. He served on the scientific committees of several international conferences.
Dr. Sedky served on the board of the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), the board of the National Center of Electronics Research and the board of Delta University.
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