Dr. Magdy Attia is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, the Founding Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department and the Founding Director of the Technology Center at Johnson C. Smith University.

He is the 2006 recipient of the Dr. Richard Neel Career Achievement Award of the Information Technology Charlotte, the recipient of the Nations Bank Par Excellence Teaching award, the O'Herron Distinguished Faculty Award, the Carolinas Associate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Carolinas, and the Distinguished Service Award at Johnson C. Smith University.

Dr. Attia is credited for building the new department of Computer Science and Engineering and moving it to be the first among all schools in the Carolinas in producing African Americans in computer science and information systems and to be ranked the twenty second nationally for the same category.

Dr. Attia has a broad spectrum of experience at the national and international levels; he is an educator and a researcher in technology areas that covers electrical and computer engineering, microwaves and millimeter-waves technologies, wireless telecommunications systems, the solution of inverse problems, microwave measurements, non-destructive testing, computer networking, modeling, software engineering and process design and analysis. Dr. Attia has a broad experience in designing and implementing  assessment plans for academic programs; which are applicable for businesses.

Dr. Attia has a long and deep experience in grant writing and implementation. He received federal and private grants in technology and educational areas from NASA, NSF, DOD, DOEd, UNCF, Duke Energy Foundation, Packard Foundation in addition to other private sector grants.

Dr. Attia has served and is serving on the Advisory Board of the College of IT at UNC Charlotte, the Executive IT Summit, the Board of Trustees of Johnson C. Smith University, the Advisory Board of the School of Science and Technology of Benedict College in South Carolina, the Steering Committee and several other committees of the Charlotte Chamber ITC. He has a broad and strong experience in strategic planning and administration.

Dr. Attia received his PhD in microwaves technologies from the world renowned Moscow State University in Russia and received his Masters and Bachelors degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Attia is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE since 1991. He has over 30 publications in referred journals, National and international Conferences in a broad spectrum of technology fields.