Muhannad S. Bakir has been appointed as the editor-in-chief for the Electronics Manufacturing section of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT). This publication is the flagship journal for matters related to advanced packaging, 2.5D and 3D integrated circuit technologies, and heterogeneous integration.  

A professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Bakir is a past recipient of the IEEE CPMT Outstanding Young Engineer Award and is currently an IEEE CPMT Distinguished Lecturer. He leads the Integrated 3D Systems Group and is a member of the Georgia Tech Center for Co-design of Chip, Package, System (C3PS).

Bakir has been on the ECE faculty since 2010, and prior to that time, he was a research engineer in the Microelectronics Research Center and the Nanotechnology Research Center from 2003-2010.