Ali Assi was born in Doueir Village, Lebanon, in 1957. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique De Montreal, in 1994 and 1998 respectively. In January 1998, he joined Texas Instruments in Ottawa, where he worked as an ASIC Applications support engineer. In June 1999, he moved to Texas Instruments in Dallas as an ASIC design engineer. In September 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as a lecturer at the American University of Beirut (AUB). In September 2001, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as an assistant professor at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). In 2007, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor at UAEU. He served as an associate professor at UAEU from 2007 to June 2012. He moved to Lebanon in September 2012, where he served as a full professor at the Lebanese International University (LIU) until September 2018. In October 2018, he moved to the Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL), where he served as a part-time faculty member. Currently, professor Assi is a senior researcher, and his current research interests include all types of renewable energy, in particular photovoltaics/solar cells. He has published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed books, journals, and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the IEEE