Khaled Nabil Salama is a full professor in the CEMSE division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communications, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He was an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA, between 2005 and 2009. He joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in January 2009 and was the founding program chair until August 2011. Currently, he is the director of the KAUST SENSORS INITIATIVE, a consortium of nine universities (KAUST, MIT, UCLA, GATECH, Brown University, TU Delft, Swansea University, the University of Regensburg, and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)). In addition, he has been the chair of the Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) for two consecutive years (2019–2020) at KAUST. His work on CMOS sensors for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded molecular detection, which was awarded the Stanford–Berkeley Innovators Challenge Award in biological sciences and was acquired by Ilumina Inc. He is the author of over 300 publications and the inventor/co-inventor of 20 issued US patents on low-power mixed-signal circuits for intelligent, fully integrated biosensors.
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