Rate My Professor Mahmoud Rasras

Mahmoud Rasras is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi and Global Network Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He received his PhD in physics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2000, with doctoral research at IMEC focused on a spectroscopic photon-emission microscopy technique to study CMOS device reliability, earning the Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award at the 1999 International Electron Devices Meeting. Rasras brings over 11 years of industrial research experience as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent in New Jersey, where he developed photonic components for next-generation optical and microwave photonic networks, including silicon photonics, optical transceivers, all-optical logic technologies for high-speed data encryption, and a linearized optical FM discriminator for microwave photonic applications. Before joining NYUAD, he served as an Associate Professor at Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi and directed the SRC/GlobalFoundries Center of Excellence on Integrated Photonics, collaborating on multi-axis opto-MEMS accelerometers with GlobalFoundries and A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore.

At NYUAD, his research focuses on silicon photonics, integrated photonic circuits for mode- and polarization-division multiplexing, hybrid integration of 2D materials on silicon photonics platforms for precise phase tuning, and applications in neuromorphic computing and high-speed transceivers beyond 400 Gb/s. He has authored over 200 journal and conference papers, including works in Nature Communications, ACS Photonics, Optics Express, and IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology; holds 34 US patents; and edited the book MEMS Accelerometers (MDPI, 2019). Rasras has supervised several PhD and MSc students, served on technical program committees for conferences such as Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science, and acted as Associate Editor for Optics Express. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists, Member of Sigma Xi, and Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance.