Dr. Mohamed Bakr

Dr. Bakr received a B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 1992 with distinction (honors). In June 1996, he received a Master’s degree in Engineering Mathematics from Cairo University. In 1997, he was a student intern with Optimization Systems Associates (OSA), inc. He earned the Ph.D. degree in September 2000 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University. In November 2000, he joined the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory (CERL), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada as an NSERC Post Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Bakr received a Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) from the province of Ontario, Canada, in 2003. He also received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award in 2011. In 2014, he was a Co-recipient of Chrysler’s innovation award for a project on novel designs of hybrid cars. In 2020, he was a recipient of a Faculty Appreciation Award by the McMaster Engineering Society (MES). He was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions for Teaching and Learning from McMaster University in April 2021. In July 2021, he was awarded a Distinguished Engineering Educator honorific from the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University. He was also included in Stanford’s list of the top 2% most cited scientists for the years 2020-2022. His research areas of interest include optimization methods, computational electromagnetics, computer-aided design and modeling of power circuits and motors, microwave circuits, THz, and photonic devices, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and its applications, smart analysis of high frequency structures and efficient optimization using time/frequency domain methods. He served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, 2022-2025. He authored/coauthored over 300 journal and conference papers, two books on the optimization and CAD of high frequency structures, three book chapters on optimization, electromagnetic modeling, and artificial intelligence, and three patents.

Ph.D. Degree, 2000, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

M.Sc. Degree, 1996, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

B.Sc. Degree, 1992 (honors), Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

B.Sc. with Honors (1992)

TRIO Student Internship (1997–1998)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (1998–2000)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2000–2001)

Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) (2003–2009)

Sabbatical Leave with Research In Motion (RIM) (2008–2009)

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Award (2011–2014)

Co-recipient of Chrysler’s 2014 Innovation Award for project on novel designs of hybrid cars

Dean’s Teaching Honour Roll (2015–2019)

Dean’s Teaching Honour Roll for Large Classes (2019)

Leadership in Teaching and Learning (LTL) Fellowship from the McPherson Institute (2018)

Faculty Appreciation Award from the McMaster Engineering Society (MES), January 2020

Included in Stanford’s list of the top 2% most cited scientists (2020–2022)

Recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning, April 2021

Recipient of a Distinguished Engineering Educator honorific, July 2021

Selected as the Department Chair (2022–2025)

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