Ali Darwish is a professor of electronics and communications engineering at The American University in Cairo. Professor Ali Darwish received his BSc and MSc in electrical engineering, with honors, from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1996. In 1990, he joined COMSAT Labs where he conducted the experimental work for his MSc thesis. In 1992, he served as a research assistant in the optics and quantum electronics group at MIT. In 1997, he co-founded Amcom Communications, Inc. a leading supplier of high power microwave devices. In May 2003, he joined a U.S. government research lab where he conducted research on wide bandgap materials (GaN), thermal analysis of active devices, and novel MMIC concepts. In September 2006, he joined the University of Sharjah as a visiting faculty member. In September 2007, he joined The American University of Cairo as a full-time faculty member. He received a promotion to associate professor in September 2009. Darwish is an inventor and the author of 60 technical journal and conference papers. He served on the Electronics Coordinating Group (ECOG) of the Army Research Office (ARO), a prestigious board of top army and university scientists that sets the research priorities and recommended funding for the defense labs, funding institutions, and research initiatives. He also drafted several winning proposals on new product ideas. He won and directed a four-year $1 million dollar Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) grant on three-dimensional microwave circuits (MMIC and Hybrid). He won grants from AUC, and the European Union, Research and Development Initiative (RDI) to develop characterization tools for building materials. 

New product development (NPD) Water and energy conservation Thermal effects in microelectronics Wide bandgap semiconductor materials Novel concepts in microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs)