Dr. Eng. Sara Abou Chakra
She is a Senior Member of IEEE. She served as the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) – Lebanon Chapter from 2017 to 2018 and as the Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) – Lebanon Affinity Group from 2021 to 2024.
Dr. Sara is an Associate Professor at the Lebanese University.
She is a Founder and Steering Committee Member of the IEEE MENACOMM conference and the sole female member of the National Committee for the first Lebanese Nano-satellite.
She earned her BE in Computer and Communications Engineering from the Lebanese University – Faculty of Engineering in 2000, followed by an MSc in Electronics from the University Paris VI in 2001. She holds a PhD in Communications and Electronics from Telecom Paris, awarded in 2004.
Her research interests include localization, Integrated Sensing and Communications (6G-ISAC), as well as data modeling and analysis.