Samar Elmaadawy

Samar Elmaadawy
Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

Office: 648A5 EXP

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Biography

Samar Elmaadawy received her B.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering with highest honors from the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt. For her bachelor thesis and project, she focused on enhancing a model-based safety analysis tool for aircraft systems, which she conducted at the Flight System Dynamics (FSD) Institute, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a Junior Teaching Assistant at GUC. In 2018, she began her research in steganography and image processing and gained hands-on experience as a working student in the Hardware Security Department at Fraunhofer AISEC in Munich, Germany. In 2019, she continued her academic journey as a research student at the Chair of Security in Information Technology at TUM.

Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Josep Miquel Jornet at Northeastern University. Her research includes modeling the thermal effects of terahertz radiation on the human body, spanning multiple scales—from the nanoscale (proteins) to the macroscale (whole body).

Selected Honors and Awards

Travel Grants:

  • IEEE ComSoc Travel Grant: IEEE Future Networks World Forum – November 2023
  • US National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant: ACM NanoCom – August 2023

Awards:

  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) 2019 Student Design Contest First Place Award, July 2019
  • Leadership Development Experience Award, November 2017
  • GUC Academic Outstanding Achievement Scholarship Award, July 2015
  • University of Science and Technology, Zewail City Scholarship Award, July 2015

UN Lab Publications

S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “The Potentials of Using Terahertz Technology in Revolutionizing the Future of Heart Health Care,” to appear in the Proc. of the International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), Feb. 2025.
S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “Photothermal Effects of Implanted Terahertz Biosensing Networks,” to appear in the Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Dec. 2024.
H. Elayan, S. Elmaadawy, A. W. Eckford, R. Adve, J. M. Jornet, “A Thermal Study of Terahertz Induced Protein Interactions,” IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, early access, 2024. PDF
S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “The Thermal Impact of Wireless Sub-Terahertz Radios on the Human Eye in Next-Generation Extended Reality Headsets,” in the Proc. of the 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Baltimore, MD, USA, Nov. 2023. PDF
H. Elayan, S. Elmaadawy, A. W. Eckford, R. Adve, and J. Jornet, ‘‘The Thermal Impact of THz Signaling in Protein Nanonetworks,” in the Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, ser. NANOCOM ’23, Coventry, United Kingdom: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, pp. 8–13. PDF
I. V. K. Reddy, S. Elmaadawy, E. P. Furlani, and J. M. Jornet, “Photothermal Effects of Terahertz-Band and Optical Electromagnetic Radiation on Human Tissues,” Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 14643, 2023. PDF

Other Publications

  • Y. Abdalla, M. Wasfy, S. Elmeadawy, N. Abdelhadi, and H.F. Hammad, “An Antenna Characterization Demo System Using an RFID Hemispherical Dome [Education Corner],” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 107-123, 2020.
  • S. Elmeadawy, A.A. Abdellatif, and F. Holzapfel, “Utilization of Constraint Satisfaction Problem Algorithms in Model-Based Safety Analysis [MBSA],” AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM, p. 3215, 2020.
  • Y. Zaghloul, M. Wasfy, S. Elmeadawy, N. Abdelhadi, and H.F. Hammad, “Investigation and comparison of several commercially available UHF RFID tags’ performance,” 2019 International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), IEEE, pp. 1-3, 2019.
  • S. Elmeadawy, and R.M. Shubair, “6G Wireless Communications: Future Technologies and Research Challenges,” 2019 International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), IEEE, pp. 1-5, 2019.

Other Teaching

Research Mentor:

  • Northeastern University Young Scholars’ Program (YSP) – Summer 2024
  • Northeastern University Research Experiences for Undergraduates program (REU-Pathways) – Summer 2024

Junior Teaching Assistant at the German University in Cairo:

  • System and Control Lab
  • Electric Circuits II Lab
  • Signal and System Theory Lab
  • Introduction to computer programming
  • Introduction to Computer Science

Keynotes, Seminars and Tutorials

  • “Developing Guidelines for Safe Human Exposure to Terahertz Radiation,” The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, November 21, 2024.

Service

Session Chair in:

  • IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom 2024)

TPC Member for:

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2025)
  • IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2024)