Samer Al Kork received a PhD degree in Bioengineering from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA in 2009. Since then he has held numerous academic positions form 2009 until 2015, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Information System at UIC, and the ITT-Tech Institute, USA, and the ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Pierre Marie Curie University, France. In 2015, he joined the American University of the Middle East (AUM), Kuwait, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Electrical Engineering Department Chair. Dr. Samer Alkork is a leading expert in areas of biomedical engineering, mobile and aerial robotics, robotic vision, artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics supervising and co-supervising multiple masters and PhD students and a founding member of AUM's Robotics Center. Dr. Alkork was the the lead principle investigator of two European projects (i-treasures and noba) with over a 6-million-euro budget. He has authored and co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and 1 book chapter on wearable technologies in biomedical and Biometric applications. He is serving on the steering committee and technical chair for international conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART) since inception, and is a regular reviewer for top-tier academic journals.