dr.lobna Said

Dr. Lobna A. Said

Program Director of Microelectronics System Design (MSD)

Faculty Office Ext.

1757

Faculty Building

UB2

Office Number

S17

Biography

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 has been 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 185 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She has an H-index of 29, 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 the 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 2023, She received the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) fellowship from The University of Pretoria and the Global Young Academy, with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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 as a TWAS Young Affiliate. In 2022, she was elected as a steering committee member of AGYA. In 2022, she joined the editorial board of Four journals belonging to these publishers: Elsevier, MDPI and Frontiers.

Achievements

1) Lobna Said received The Stat Encouragement Award 2019 in engineering science. for Research Award from the Ministry of Scientific Research - Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

2) Lobna Said received the Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for the outstanding Researcher, NU for 2019/ 2020. for Research Award from Nile University.

3) Lobna Said received The 2nd Place Best paper award Prize in ICM Conference, Jordon 2020 for Research Award from ICM Conference.

4) Lobna Said received the Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for the outstanding Researcher, NU for 2018/ 2019. for Research Award from Nile University.

5) Lobna Said received the Best Thesis Supervisor for the M.Sc. student Esraa Hamed, Nile University, 2019. for Research Award from Nile University.

6) Lobna Said received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher education and Research 2016 for Research Award from the Center for the Development of Higher education Research.

7) Lobna Said received the Best paper award (electronic section) at the MOST Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017. the paper titled “FPGA Realization of Caputo and Grünwald-Letnikov Operators for Research Award from MOCAST Conference.

8)Lobna Said being as  Arab Co-President of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities 
(AGYA)  for this year Nov 23 to nov 24

9)She was elected as the Co-president of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in 2023

Recent Publications

FPGA implementation of integer/fractional chaotic systems

Chaotic systems have remarkable importance in capturing some complex features of the physical process. Recently, fractional calculus becomes a vigorous tool in characterizing the dynamics of complex systems. The fractional-order chaotic systems increase the chaotic behavior in new dimensions and add extra degrees of freedom, which increase system controllability. In this chapter, FPGA

Circuit Theory and Applications

Numerical Simulations and FPGA Implementations of Fractional-Order Systems Based on Product Integration Rules

Product integration (PI) rules are well known numerical techniques that are used to solve differential equations of integer and, recently, fractional orders. Due to the high memory dependency of the PI rules used in solving fractional-order systems (FOS), their hardware implementation is very difficult and resources-demanding. In this paper, modified versions of the PI rules are introduced to

Circuit Theory and Applications

Fractional-order Memristor Emulator with Multiple Pinched Points

The paper proposes voltage-controlled first-and second-order memristor emulators. The emulators are designed using an operational-transconductance amplifier (OTA) and voltage multiplier blocks plus a fractional-order capacitor. The presented second-order emulator provides two pinched points controlled by order of the employed fractional-order capacitor. Numerical and PSPICE simulation results

Circuit Theory and Applications

A novel image encryption system merging fractional-order edge detection and generalized chaotic maps

This paper presents a novel lossless image encryption algorithm based on edge detection and generalized chaotic maps for key generation. Generalized chaotic maps, including the fractional-order, the delayed, and the Double-Humped logistic maps, are used to design the pseudo-random number key generator. The generalization parameters add extra degrees of freedom to the system and increase the

Circuit Theory and Applications

Fractional-Order Generalized Gene Regulation Model CCII-Based Practical Emulator

This paper presents a practical emulator of a generalised fractional-order model for gene regulation process, in an analog platform. The presented emulator is based on the second-generation current conveyor (CCII) and implemented using AD844 chips. The emulator realises a proposed generalised mathematical model for gene expression. The model sums up three different single models; the constitutive

Circuit Theory and Applications

A general emulator for fractional-order memristive elements with multiple pinched points and application

In this paper, X-controlled universal fractional-order memelements (FOMEs) emulator is proposed. The emulation circuit is realized using second-generation current conveyor (CCII) and analog voltage multiplier (AVM)/divider block with two switches to control the type of memelements and emulator mode. The effect of the fractional-order capacitor (FOC) on the pinched hysteresis loop (HL) area and the

Circuit Theory and Applications

Design and Implementation of an Optimized Artificial Human Eardrum Model

This paper introduces a fractional-order eardrum Type-II model, which is derived using fractional calculus to reduce the number of elements compared to its integer-order counterpart. The proposed fractional-order model parameters are extracted and compared using five meta-heuristic optimization techniques. The CMOS implementation of the model is performed using the Design Kit of the Austria Mikro

Circuit Theory and Applications

A study of the nonlinear dynamics of human behavior and its digital hardware implementation

This paper introduces an intensive discussion for the dynamical model of the love triangle in both integer and fractional-order domains. Three different types of nonlinearities soft, hard, and mixed between soft and hard, are used in this study. MATLAB numerical simulations for the different three categories are presented. Also, a discussion for how the kind of personalities affects the behavior

Circuit Theory and Applications

Fractional calculus definitions, approximations, and engineering applications

The basic idea behind fractional calculus is that it considers derivatives and integrals of non-integer orders giving extra degrees of freedom and tuning knobs for modeling complex and memory dependent systems with compact descriptions. This paper reviews fractional calculus history, theory, and its applications in electrical engineering. The basic definitions of fractional calculus are presented

Circuit Theory and Applications
Research Tracks
  • Analog integrated circuits.
  • Digital integrated circuits.
  • Fractional order circuits and systems.
  • Chaos Theory and Nonlinear systems.
  • Fractional-order biomedical applications.
  • Fractional calculus.
  • Renewable energy.
  • Wastewater treatment and agriculture
Projects
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Research Project

Wireless Monitoring of Fruit Growth Using an Electrical BioImpedance Sensor Device

The idea of this project is to graph the quality of fruits and vegetables similar to ECG in humans. The purpose of this project is to build a prototype for a portable wireless electronic device capable of measuring live tissue with fruits or vegetables using bioimpedance and some mathematical & electrical models then transmitting data to the base station. This project will add scientific and
Chaotic
Research Project

Software Algorithm and Hardware Implementations of Information Security Using Number Theory and Chaotic Systems

The project aims at proposing novel software algorithms for information security and their hardware implementations. The algorithms will utilize different methods based on number theory and chaos theory. Cryptography and information hiding systems will be developed for different media data types such as text, image, audio and video. The project will investigate different classes of symmetric
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Research Project

Smart Agriculture in Internet of Things Era

Efficient management of the Earth’s water resources has surged in urgency due to the confluence of several factors, including population growth, climate change, urbanization, etc. Irrigation stands out as one of the major sources of water utilization that can benefit drastically from novel approaches to water management. The nominal method for smart irrigation is to use some weather conditions to
3
Research Project

Fractional-order Complex Chaotic Systems: FPGA Implementation and Applications

Fractional calculus (FC) has been proved through numerous research examples to be a superior tool for system description to the narrow integer order domain. This is achieved through the extra parameters introduced by allowing the differential or integral orders to take non-integer values. The promising capabilities of fractional-order devices challenge the research to find a way to simulate its
3
Research Project

FPGA/FPAA Implementation of Fractional-order Systems

Fractional Calculus (FC) has been proved through numerous research examples to be a superior tool for system description to the narrow integer order domain. This is achieved through the extra parameters introduced by allowing the differential or integral orders to take non-integer values. The promising capabilities of fractional-order devices challenge the research to find a way to simulate its
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Research Project

Ternary Logic Gates Design

Nowadays, the demand for building CNTFET-based ternary systems has been increasing. The current two-level binary logic and MOSFET technology have been facing limitations in chip size, design complexity, and power consumption. In this proposal, the method to design Ternary logic gates based on CNTFET and Memristor is proposed. Implementing Ternary Full-Adders and Multipliers is also discussed in
3
Research Project

Two Port Fractional-order Oscillators and Filters Suitable for Tissue Modeling

Objective: This project aims to study the relation between the mathematical fundamentals of fractional calculus and the concept of two-port circuit networks in the design of oscillators and filters with their analyses. These concepts will be applied to the Cole-Cole model, suitable for agriculture and biomedical applications tissue modelling. Outcomes: Literature Surveys (2 Journals + 2 Chapters)
Research Project

Efficient Implementation of Reconfigurable Machine Learning IP Cores on FPGA

This project's aim is to develop a working flow providing a better and an efficient way for implementing Machine Learning algorithms having a balance between high performance and low power consumption. Objective/Contributions: Software Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms Hardware Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms Efficient Power Consumption Reconfigurable Design of ML FPGA IP
Research Project

Multi-stage Low-cost Treatment of Dyes and Paints Wastewater by Coagulation, Adsorption, and Filtration for Reuse in Several Application

Objective/Contributions: Designing and constructing a low-cost, efficient, rapid environmentally friendly treatment system for textile and paint industries' recycling and treatment. Conducting a comprehensive literature database of all the reuse and treatment methods, in paints wastewater treatment and all the pilot plants, and treatment plants used success stories that successfully reduce the
Research Project

Multi-purposes Reading IoT-based Smart Platform

Objectives/Contributions: The project aims to introduce a solution for a multi-protocol environment. The proposed device that represents the ultimate goal of the project will act as an interpreter between different communication media, representing the project’s main deliverable. Furthermore, we propose to have a smart device to estimate the channel performance and decide the optimum communication
Research Project

Making Graduates in Egypt, Libya and Palestine Ready for the Job Market

Objectives/Contributions: Many Arab countries have to deal with discrepancies between the educational output and the actual needs of their labour markets. Introducing capacity-building trainings for new graduates is an optimal approach to bridge this gap, improve their skills and increase their marketability for industry or academia, which is the aim of the project by the AGYA Working Group Arab
Research Project

Improving Job Market Skills of Graduates

In Egypt and its neighbouring countries, a mismatch between educational output and training requirements of the labour market has been a significant constraint on economic development. Pre-employment skills are essential to prepare newly graduated students for the job market in the industry as well as academia. AGYA members Dr. Lobna Said, Dr. Mohamed Abou El-Enein, Dr. Shadi Albarqouni and Dr