Lobna A. Said (Senior Member IEEE 2020) is a full-time Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Nile University (NU). She is the Director of the Microelectronics System Design Master Program (MSD) and the former Co-Director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center (NISC) (2021–2024). She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively.

She has over 230 publications distributed among high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She has an H-index of 37 according to the Scopus database. Her interdisciplinary research interests include smart systems, hardware accelerators, data encryption, energy harvesting, fractional-order circuits and systems, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory. She has been involved in many national and international research grants as a PI, Co-PI, Senior Researcher, or Research Member.

She is the Vice Chair of the Technical Chapters of the IEEE Egypt Section and the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter. She is also Vice Chair of the IEEE Systems Council Egypt Chapter. She has served as the Counselor of the IEEE NU Student Branch since 2018 and has been the Co-Chair of WIE in the IEEE CAS Egypt Technical Chapter since 2021. She is a Member of the IEEE CASS Digital Communications Standing Committee. In 2025, she was elected IEEE Africa Council Secretary.

She won the State Encouragement Award in Engineering Science for 2019. She received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher Education and Research in 2019 for her Ph.D. thesis completed in 2016. She won the Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for Outstanding Researcher at Nile University in 2019 and 2020. Her name appeared in the Top 2% of Scientists according to the Stanford Report for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2024. She has received Recognized Reviewer Awards from many international journals. She was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor & Branch Chapter Advisor Award in 2021. In 2022, she received a Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) Award. In 2023, she received the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) Fellowship from the University of Pretoria and the Global Young Academy, with support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. In 2025, she received the U.S.-Africa Frontiers Fellowship Award.

In 2019, she was selected as a member of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) to empower and encourage young Egyptian scientists in science and technology and to help build knowledge-based societies. She served as Co-Chair of EYAS from 2020 to 2023. In 2020, she was selected as an Affiliate Member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and as a Member of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). She served on the AGYA Steering Committee from 2022 to 2024 and was Co-President of AGYA from 2023 to 2024.

She was selected as a Member of the Council for Future Studies and Risk Management, ASRT, Egypt (2021–2028), and as a Member of the Egypt-U.S. Exchange Alumni Council (2025–2026). She serves on the Advisory Board of the Skills and Employability Enhancement Center (SEEC) at Nile University. In 2023, she was elected a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). In 2025, she was elected as a Regional Member representing the Arab Region on the OWSD Executive Board.

Additionally, she has served on the technical and organizing committees of numerous international conferences, organized special sessions, and was selected as a TWAS Young Affiliate. In 2022, she joined the editorial boards of five journals published by Elsevier, MDPI, and Frontiers.