Dr. Mansour Assaf joined the University of the South Pacific (USP) in 2010. Before joining USP, he was associated with the Centre for Information and Communications Technology at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). Prior to that, he served as a Research Scholar and Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa (UOO) in Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UOO, where he also received his M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and B.A.Sc. in Telecommunications. Dr. Assaf’s research interests span computer architecture, mixed-signal analysis, hardware/software co-design and testing, fault-tolerant computing, sensor networks, image processing, and RFID technology. He has published over 82 refereed journal articles and conference papers, 42 of which are in high-impact factor journals. He also authored one book. Dr. Assaf is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a professional member of Engineers New Zealand, and a professional member of Engineers Fiji. In 2003, he was awarded the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.