Keynote Speech

IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture

““Novel Time Domain Methods for Analyzing Photonic Devices””

Speaker:

Prof. Salah Obayya

Fellow IEEE, OSA, SPIE, AAS, ACES, HEA, IEE, IOP

UNESCO Chair

Director of General Research

Professor And Director of Center for Photonics and Smart Materials (CPSM) Zewail City of Science and Technology

Biography:

Over the past 25 years, Salah demonstrated an international distinction in the field of photonics among his peers, where he has prolifically published 322 journal papers, 277 conference papers in top international academic venues, 3 patents, and 3 textbooks which are taught in the top universities in the world. He led the team that developed a unique numerical package widely adopted by the academic community and industrial partners worldwide. He has supervised more than 150 Ph.D/M.Sc., and some of his ex-Ph.D now hold critical academic and industrial positions in UK, Egypt, Jordan, .. etc. He led more than 30 academic/industrial consortia funded by research councils and governmental agencies with a total of £3.64 Millions. These projects led to a paradigm shift in the photonics community, inducing impactful industrial applications. Over the years, he has established and directed two large impactful research centres; the centre for photonics and smart materials (CPSM), Zewail City (ZC), and the centre for photonics and broadband communications, University of South Wales, UK.

Abstract:

In this talk, an overview of the challenging facing “Computational Photonics” branch will be highlighted. In particular, the advantages and disadvantages of the existing time domain modelling techniques will be dismissed some new trends in time domain methods will be presented, and some supporting results will be provided.