Dr. Ouakad received his B.Sc. degree with honors in Mechanics and Structures in 2007 from Tunisia Polytechnic School. In 2008, he received his master’s degree in Computational Mechanics from a joint graduate program between Tunisia Polytechnic School, Tunisia, and Virginia Tech, VA, USA. Afterward, he joined the MEMS characterization and Motion Lab of the State University of New York at Binghamton (NY, ISA), where he received his Ph.D. degree in 2010. In January 2011, he joined the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Texas A&M University in the Education City of Doha, State of Qatar, as a postdoc research assistant. In September 2011, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of King Fahd University as an assistant professor. Since September 2018, he has worked as an associate professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman where he currently heads the Mechanical Systems Laboratory. Dr. Ouakad was the recipient of the Excellence in Research Award from the Deanship of Scientific Research at KFUPM back in May 2018. Dr. Ouakad is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). He currently serves as an associate editor for the eminent journals of Vibration and Control, the IEEE ACCESS Journal, and Springer Microsystem Technologies.