Provost Dawy has been serving as AUB’s chief academic officer since 2021 and is responsible for advancing the university’s academic and research mission. He has broad oversight of the many dimensions of academic and campus life, including teaching and learning, scholarship and research, student and faculty affairs, assessment and continuous improvement, strategic initiatives, and outreach. He oversees the university’s faculties/schools, office of student affairs, libraries, museums, interdisciplinary research centers and institutes, and the academic support units. He works closely with the president, vice presidents and chief officers, deans, directors, and the office of the provost team.
Provost Dawy joined AUB in 2004 and is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA). His research and teaching interests span wireless communications, internet of things, and biomedical engineering. He is an AUB alumnus where completed his undergraduate studies in engineering, after which he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
At AUB, Provost Dawy held numerous leadership positions during the last decade, serving as interim provost (during 2020-2021), associate provost (2017-2020), chair of the University Research Board (2015-2020), chair of the Graduate Council (2017-2020), founding coordinator of the joint MSFEA/FM (Faculty of Medicine) Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program (2015-2020), co-founder of the joint FHS (Faculty of Health Sciences)/MSFEA Humanitarian Engineering Initiative (since 2017), and co-chair of the taskforce that played an instrumental role in the restoration of tenure at AUB (2015-2019).
Provost Dawy is the recipient of AUB’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2008. Internationally, he has been recognized for his research contributions with the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers (2012), the IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region (2011), and several professional service recognitions. He currently serves as a member of the Higher Education Council at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon and as the Chair of the Higher Education Strategy Committee at the Universities Association of Lebanon (UAOLB).