Samar Elmaadawy

Biography

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

From 2016 to 2018, she served as a junior teaching assistant at GUC, supporting undergraduate courses in communications and systems engineering. In 2018, she began research in steganography, image processing, and RFID antenna characterization systems, gaining hands-on experience with experimental design and implementation.

In 2019, she joined the Hardware Security Department at Fraunhofer AISEC in Munich, Germany, while also working as a research student at the Chair of Security in Information Technology, TUM. Her work focused on hardware-based cybersecurity and secure embedded systems. In 2022, she earned her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

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

Selected Honors and Awards

• Young Scientist Award – International Union of Radio Science, Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, August 2025
• Best Paper Award – International Telecommunication Conference, Egypt, July 2025
• Research Scholarship – Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (MARIE Project), June 2025–May 2026
• IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) “Four-Minute Thesis (4MT)” Competition Finalist – IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2025
• ICM²TS Talent Travel Award – International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems, January 2025
• IEEE ComSoc 4MT Competition Finalist – IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2024
• IEEE ComSoc Travel Grant – IEEE Future Networks World Forum, November 2023
• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant – ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), August 2023
• First Place, Student Design Contest – IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS), July 2019
• Leadership Development Experience Award – November 2017
• Academic Outstanding Achievement Scholarship Award – German University in Cairo (GUC), July 2015
• Academic Scholarship – University of Science and Technology, Zewail City, July 2015

UN Lab Publications

S. Elmaadawy, D. Bodet, P. Nganga, O. Motherway, N. Manoj, J. Ryu, H. Fang, M. K. Stachowiak, and J. M. Jornet, “Cerebral Organoids Respond to Sub-Terahertz and Terahertz Radiation,” to appear in the Proc. of the 2025 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, August 17-22, 2025.

S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “Thermal and SAR-Based Limits for Human Skin Exposed to Terahertz Radiation,” in the Proc. of the 5th International Telecommunications Conference (ITC- Egypt’2025), July 2025. [Best Paper Award]

S. Elmaadawy, Isaac Chan, and J. M. Jornet, “The Potential of Terahertz Technology to Revolutionize Cardiac Healthcare,” in the Proc. of the International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), Feb. 2025. PDF

S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “Photothermal Effects of Implanted Terahertz Biosensing Networks,” in the Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Dec. 2024. PDF

S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “Unveiling the Potential of Terahertz Technology for Non-Invasive Biomonitoring of Liver Tissue,” in the Proc. of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom), Nov. 2024. PDF

S. Elmaadawy and J. M. Jornet, “Photothermal Impact of Terahertz Radiation for Brain Therapy: Applications in Neuromodulation and Hyperthermia,” in the Proc. of the 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), Oct. 2024. PDF

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.

UN Lab Teaching

• EECE 5698: Terahertz Communications for 6G

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:

• International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICM²TS 2025)
• IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom 2024)

TPC Member for:

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