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Dr.
M. El-Sherif, President & CEO
 Dr.
Mahmoud El-Sherif is the Founder, President & CEO of Photonics
Laboratories, Inc. and Photonics GTT Inc. (Global Technology Transfer).
From 1989 to 2003 Dr. El-Sherif has served as
a Research Professor of Materials,
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University,
as well as the Founder and Director of the Fiber
Optics and Photonics Manufacturing Engineering Center (FOPMEC) at
Drexel University, which was named a Center of Excellence for the
State of Pennsylvania, USA.
Dr.
El-Sherif is a leading inventor in the area of fiber optics and opto-electronics,
as well as smart and intelligent materials and structures. He is the
creator of the on-fiber active optical tunable coupler, switch and
modulator for optical communication systems. In addition, he is the
inventor of the on-fiber chemical sensor, smart parachute and smart
soldier’s uniform, with embedded fiber optic sensors for detection
of stresses and biological threats. He has developed the processing
techniques for manufacturing smart structures of metallic, ceramic
and polymer materials, using embedded fiber optic sensors for health
monitoring and real-time characterization.
Dr.
El-Sherif served as the Principal Investigator (PI) of several
U.S. Federal and State Research and Development Programs with
the NASA Lewis Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center,
U.S. Department of Defense (Army, Navy and Air Force), and U.S.
National Science Foundation. Additionally, he has served as the
PI for a number of industrial projects with various companies,
including the David Sarnoff Research Center (formally RCA), General
Electric, General Motors, Smith and Nephew Richards, Inc., and
Vickers, Inc. Dr. El-Sherif has served as Project Director for
several international collaborative projects with Japan, China,
France, Germany, Egypt, and Brazil. He has written over 100 publications
on fiber optics and smart materials and structures, supervised
Ph.D. and M.S theses on fiber optics and smart materials and structures,
and served on the committees of numerous Ph.D. and M.S engineering
students.
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