Mounir Boukadoum received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He is currently a Professor of microelectronics engineering at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada. He studied physics in Algeria before switching to electrical engineering in the United States, with an emphasis on medical applications. His research interests focus mainly on the application of artificial intelligence to analyse design problems, particularly in biomedical outcomes. He is the Director of the Quebec Strategic Alliance for Microsystems research consortium, and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on the Operationalization of Sustainable Development, all based in Montreal. He is an active member of IEEE, with involvement in three international conference steering committees and the Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee. He cofounded the international NEWCAS conference, now an IEEE CAS interregional flagship conference, and was Co-General Chair of the 2012, 2018, and 2020 editions. In 2020, he was also Local Arrangements Chair of EMBC in Montreal and Co-Finance Chair of ICECS in Glasgow.