Bahgat G. Sammakia is an educator and academic administrator who currently serves as Vice President for Research at Binghamton University.

[1] In June 2018, State University of New York senior vice chancellor for research and economic development, Dr. Grace Wang was appointed as SUNY Polytechnic Institute Interim President.

[4] The title of his doctoral dissertation is "Transient natural and mixed convection flows and transport adjacent to an ice surface melting in saline water".

[8] Dr. Bahgat Sammakia is the interim president at SUNY Polytechnic Institute beginning November third 2016.

Sammakia was the editor of the Journal of Electronics Packaging, which is published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.