Professor Lutfi Albasha
American University of Sharjah
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Lutfi Albasha received his education in the U.K., earning his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Leeds. He began his career at Sony Corporation, where he contributed to the development of numerous electronic products and commercial chipsets for mobile handsets. He later joined Filtronic Semiconductors, where he established and led an IC design team that enabled foundry design support for mass production and successfully delivered the company’s first commercial MMIC products—helping position Filtronic as Europe’s largest MMIC foundry at the time.
He subsequently returned to Sony, where he contributed to the development of highly integrated RFCMOS and BiCMOS transceivers for cellular and digital television (DTV) applications. His designs were among the most commercially successful products for mobile handsets at the time. He later joined the American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, where he is currently a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Albasha founded the Product Design Program at AUS, an interdisciplinary initiative integrating engineering, creativity, art, and entrepreneurship, and he continues to advance work in circular design for sustainable products. His research interests include mmWave design, wireless power transfer, energy harvesting, and portable radar systems for healthcare and telecommunication applications.
He has published extensively in these fields and holds two AUS-sponsored international patents. Dr. Albasha has received numerous awards from both industry and academia. He serves on the technical boards of several leading journals, has chaired the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) UAE Chapter for three terms, and was the General Chair of the 26th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC).
In addition to his research, Dr. Albasha lectures on product design philosophy and human interaction. He is particularly interested in wearable technologies and comes from a family with a long-standing tradition in international jewelry and Swiss watchmaking businesses.