Prof. Abdellah Touhafi obtained his bachelor's degree in Electronics, option: Computer Systems at IHAM Antwerp. He has a master's degree in Electronics from the VUB Brussels and a PhD in Applied Sciences: Scalable Run-Time Reconfigurable Computing Systems, also from the VUB. He is currently a full-time professor at the VUB and the leader of the Rapptor Lab. His research interests mainly include acoustic sensor arrays, embedded systems, and reconfigurable computing.