Ali E. Abdou – Technical Advisor, Halliburton, Houston, USA. Dr. Abdou was born in Egypt, on March 03, 1969, obtained his B.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Alexandria University in 1992 with degree of honor, M.Sc. degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2002, M.Sc. in Computational Sciences in 2003, and Ph.D. in 2005 all from the University of Wisconsin Madison in Madison Wisconsin USA. He worked as a Nuclear Core Design Engineer at INVAP S.E. Argentina from 1994 to 1997, a Senior Process Development Engineer at Intel Corporation from 2005 to 2009, assistant professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University from 2009 to 2013, the founding director of the Nanotechnology Program at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt from 2013 to 2015 and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait from 2015 to 2017. From 2017 to 2018 he was adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Nuclear Technology group at Halliburton as a technical advisor leading the company’s R&D work to develop their pulsed neutron generators. His current interests is focused on sealed off neutron tube development, nuclear fusion, radiation transport, thin film, nanofabrication and finite element modeling. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ANS, AVS, APS-DPP and SPWLA.