Dr. Mehboob Alam received his B.Sc. (Hons.) from the University of Engineering and Technology, his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2007. He is an Associate Professor and Chairman at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Pakistan. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, and as an NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He also served as a faculty member at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, and Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan. He received the Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Canada Postgraduate Scholarship (2002–2003). He received the Canadian Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC Industrial Collaboration Award (SMC Award) in 2003. His research interests include Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, VLSI Signal Processing, and Model Order Reduction (MOR) for Large-scale Linear, Non-linear, and Stochastic On-chip Interconnect systems.