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Panel Sessions
TRACK 2 PANEL: DATA CENTERS AND IT MANAGEMENT Gamal Refai-Ahmed,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018 Co-Moderator, XILINX, San Jose, CA
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
ROOM: MASON I, SECOND FLOOR Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed, Life Fellow ASME, Fellow Canadian Academy of
Engineering, is a Distinguished Engineer and Adjunct Professor in the
Abstract: The panelists will present and discuss state of the art, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY Binghamton.
challenges, opportunities and future directions for the thermal He obtained the M. A. SC. and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering
management of high power servers. from the University of Waterloo. He is the author of more than 90 technical
papers and more than 100 US patents/International Patents/ Pending
Bahgat Sammakia, patents. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal Components and
Moderator, Binghamton University, State University of Packaging, IEEE and Journal of Thermal Sciences and Engineering and
New York, Binghamton, NY Applications, Transactions of the ASME.
Bahgat Sammakia, a SUNY distinguished professor of mechanical Amr Helmy,
engineering, is the Vice President for Research at Binghamton University. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
He is the founding director of the Small Scale Systems Integration and
Packaging Center, a New York State Center of Excellence, and is the Amr is a Professor in the department of electrical and computer
director of the Energy Efficient Electronic Systems Center, an NSF IUCRC engineering at the University of Toronto. Prior to his academic career, he
founded in 2011 with a focus on reducing the energy consumed by data held a position at Agilent Technologies, R&D division, in the UK between
centers around the world. Sammakia served as the interim president of 2000 and 2004. At Agilent his responsibilities included developing
SUNY Polytechnic Institute from December 2016 to June 2018. He is a InP-based photonic semiconductor integrated circuits and high-powered
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National submarine-class 980 nm pump lasers. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc.
Academy of inventors, and the IEEE. Sammakia holds 21 U.S. patents and from the University of Glasgow with a focus on photonic devices and
has published more than 250 peer-reviewed technical papers. Sammakia, fabrication technologies, in 1999 and 1995 respectively. He received his
who received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1993, in electronics and telecommunications
and Creative Activities in 2010, was honored with the 2010 ITherm engineering science. His research interests include photonic device
Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of semiconductor physics and characterization techniques, with emphasis on nonlinear
thermal management. Sammakia earned his bachelor’s degree from the optics in III-V semiconductors; applied optical spectroscopy in III-V
University of Alexandria in Egypt and his master’s and doctoral degrees optoelectronic devices and materials; III-V fabrication and monolithic
from the University at Buffalo. A former IBM senior technical staff member, integration techniques. Amr has served the community in numerous roles.
Sammakia joined Binghamton’s faculty in 1998. He has served as Vice President Membership for the IEEE Photonics
Society (2008-2010). He is currently the CLEO Program Chair (2018-2020),
Leila Choobineh, where he previously served as the chair for the Semiconductor Lasers
Co-Moderator, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY committee. He also serves as the Technical Program Chair for IPC
2016-2018, where he previously served as the chair for the committees on
Dr. Leila Choobineh is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Semiconductor Lasers, Optical Materials and Metamaterials as well as the
SUNY Polytechnic institute. She received the Ph.D. degree (2014) in committees on Photonic Integration and Packaging. He has served as an
mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her associate editor for the Photonics Journal and is currently an associate
research interests include the development of micro- and nano-scale editor for Optics Express.
sensors, thermal management of 3D integrated circuits, microelectronics,
flexible electronics, and microelectronics cooling. She has served as
session chair, topic chair and track chair at IMECE, IEEE ITherm and
InterPACK conferences during the last three years.
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