Dina Reda Eldamak
Assistant Professor at the German University in Cairo
Assistant Professor at the German University in Cairo
Biography
Dina Eldamak is an assistant professor at the German University in Cairo (GUC) since september 2022. From September 2020 to August 2022, she was an assistant professor Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering (NANENG) Program & Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) Program at the University of Science and Technology at Zewail City in Egypt. From August 2016 to August 2020, She was WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the USC Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratories, and a faculty member of the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things at the Viterbi School of Engineering. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2012 and 2015 respectively under the supervision of Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan. After receiving her doctoral degree, she spent one year as a postdoctoral associate at the MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories supervised by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan while collaborating with Prof. Tomas Palacios, Prof. Giovanni Traverso, and Prof. Robert S. Langer.
Her research interests include energy harvesting, power management circuits, ultra-low power biomedical devices, low power data converters and circuit design using emerging technologies. She has published in major conferences and journals in the field including ISSCC, VLSI Circuits, and Technology, IEDM, JSSC, Nanoletters, and Nature Biomedical Engineering. Her research work was featured by several media outlets including MIT News Office, CNBC, Electronics Weekly, and IEEE Spectrum.
Dr. Eldamak is a senior member of the IEEE since June 2019. She was the recipient of Texas Instruments Graduate Woman's Fellowship for Leadership in Microelectronics for the academic years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 at MIT. She was selected as one of the women rising stars in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley in 2014. She was an elected member of the Viterbi School of Engineering Faculty Council and a member of its research infrastructure committee from 2018-2020. She is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE-USA Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) from 2019 till now. She is an organizer of a special event at the IEEE-USA International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2019 till now. She is one of the organizers of the 2023 IEEE Germany Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) Conference.
Dina Eldamak is an assistant professor at the German University in Cairo (GUC) since september 2022. From September 2020 to August 2022, she was an assistant professor Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering (NANENG) Program & Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) Program at the University of Science and Technology at Zewail City in Egypt. From August 2016 to August 2020, She was WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the USC Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratories, and a faculty member of the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things at the Viterbi School of Engineering. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2012 and 2015 respectively under the supervision of Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan. After receiving her doctoral degree, she spent one year as a postdoctoral associate at the MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories supervised by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan while collaborating with Prof. Tomas Palacios, Prof. Giovanni Traverso, and Prof. Robert S. Langer.
Her research interests include energy harvesting, power management circuits, ultra-low power biomedical devices, low power data converters and circuit design using emerging technologies. She has published in major conferences and journals in the field including ISSCC, VLSI Circuits, and Technology, IEDM, JSSC, Nanoletters, and Nature Biomedical Engineering. Her research work was featured by several media outlets including MIT News Office, CNBC, Electronics Weekly, and IEEE Spectrum.
Dr. Eldamak is a senior member of the IEEE since June 2019. She was the recipient of Texas Instruments Graduate Woman's Fellowship for Leadership in Microelectronics for the academic years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 at MIT. She was selected as one of the women rising stars in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley in 2014. She was an elected member of the Viterbi School of Engineering Faculty Council and a member of its research infrastructure committee from 2018-2020. She is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE-USA Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) from 2019 till now. She is an organizer of a special event at the IEEE-USA International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2019 till now. She is one of the organizers of the 2023 IEEE Germany Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) Conference.
Education
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2015
Minor in Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Thesis title: “Power Management Circuits for Ultra-Low Power Systems”
Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2012
Thesis title: “Design of Ultra Low Power ADC for Ambulatory EEG Recording”
Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
GPA: 5.0/5.0
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2015
Minor in Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Thesis title: “Power Management Circuits for Ultra-Low Power Systems”
Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2012
Thesis title: “Design of Ultra Low Power ADC for Ambulatory EEG Recording”
Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
GPA: 5.0/5.0
Honors and Awards
- Zewail City President Certificate of Recognition, May 2022.
- Elevated to IEEE Senior member, June 2019.
- University of Southern California Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Gabilan Assistant Professorship, 2016 - 2020.
- Golden Beaver Group Award - MIT Student Leader Awards, Co-recipient among the MIT Egyptian Student Association Executive Board Members, 2015.
- Featured Talk Award, MTL Annual Research Conference (MARC), 2015.
- Poster Presentation Award – Circuits and Systems, MTL Annual Research Conference (MARC), 2015.
- Rising Stars in EECS – Invited Participant at UC Berkeley, 2014.
- Texas Instruments Graduate Woman’s Fellowship for Leadership in Microelectronics (2012-2013, 2013-2014).
- William L. Stewart, Jr. Group Award – MIT Awards Convocation, Co-recipient among the MIT Egyptian Student Association Executive Board Members, 2014.
- Bridge Builder Group Award - MIT Student Leader Awards, Co-recipient among the MIT Egyptian Student Association Executive Board Members, 2014
- Graduate Studies Scholarship by Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University (2007-2010)
- Best Technical Paper Award, Mentor Graphics Higher Education Program Workshop, Egypt, 2007 (Co-author).
- Third Place at the International Electronics Design Contest for Students (IEDCS), Egypt, 2007 (Co-author).
- Annual Academic Distinction Award by Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt, (2003 to 2007).
Invited Talks
- "Advancements in Ultra-low Power Biomedical Devices", Invited Talk, The American University in Cairo, May 2022.
- "Empowering the Internet of Things”, Invited Talk, University of Science and Technology at Zewail City, Egypt, June 2019.
- "Empowering the Internet of Things”, Invited Talk, Egypt Military Technical College (MTC), Egypt, June 2019.
- "Empowering the Internet of Things”, Invited Talk, USC WiSE Research Horizons Symposium: A Showcase of Cutting Edge Research in Health, Nano Science, and Sustainability, March 2018.
- “Power Management Circuits for Ultra-Low Power Systems,” Invited Talk, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, CA, April 2016.
- “Empowering the IoT: Energy Scavenging and Ultra-low Power Processing,”Invited Talk, KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for a Sustainable Future, Jeddah, March 2016.
- “Empowering the IoT: Energy Scavenging and Ultra-low Power Processing”, Invited Talk, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, December 2015.
- “Empowering the IoT: Energy Scavenging and Ultra-low Power Processing”, Invited Talk, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, May 2015.
- “Energy-Efficient Power Processing Circuits for Autonomous Sensors and Wearable Devices”, Invited Talk, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, January 2015.
- “A 93% Efficiency Reconfigurable Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Using On-Chip Ferroelectric Capacitor”, Invited Talk, Maxim Integrated, San Jose, CA, February 2013.
