Prof. Dr. Falah Awwad

Falah Awwad received MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada) in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He was a Post- Doctoral Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Between Aug. 2007 and Feb. 2013, he was an assistant professor with the College of Information Technology at United Arab Emirates University. Currently, he is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering - College of Engineering (UAE University). He has published over 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He is the principal investigator and co-PI of more than 20 research projects and has supervised several postgraduate students. His primary scientific research interests include sensors, circuits, and devices, in addition to hardware security and biomedical applications. He is a member of the steering committee of ICM and session chair and a technical program committee member of several international conferences, including the International Conference on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in the Nanoscale Era, ISCAS, IT Innovations Conference, MWSCAS, EMBC, and IEEE Sensors conference. He is also a regular reviewer for several journals such as Microelectronics Journal, Journal of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology, TVLSI, and Biosensors and Bioelectronics.