NRL Edison Patent Award 2005 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2007 Elected Fellow of The Optical Society 2007 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015 Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society 2017 American Chemical Society Hillebrand Prize 2018 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences 2021 Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering Select publications References 1948 births Living people Egyptian scientists Rice University alumni University of Houston alumni Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of Optica (society) Fellows of SPIE Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Women materials scientists and engineers Women in optics