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Yehia Massoud (F’15) holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. He is currently a Professor and the Director of the Innovative Technologies Laboratories (ITL) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Massoud has held several experience at leading institutions of higher education and respected industry names including Rice University, Stevens Institute of Technology, WPI, UAB, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Synopsys Inc. From January 2018 to July 2021, he was the Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE), Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. Prior to Stevens, Massoud served as the head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) between 2012 and 2017. In 2003, Massoud joined Rice University as an assistant professor, where he became one of the fastest Rice faculty to be granted tenure in the department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science in 2007. Massoud was selected as one of ten MIT Alumni Featured by MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department in 2012. He was a recipient of the Rising Star of Texas Medal, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the DAC Fellowship, the Synopsys Special Recognition Engineering Award, and several best paper awards. He has published more than 350 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and conference publications. Massoud was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2014 to 2015. He has served as the Editor of the Mixed-Signal Letters - the Americas, as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, as well as a Guest Editor of a special issue of the IEEE TCAS-I. His research focuses on the design of state-of-the-art innovative technological solutions that span over the broad range of technical areas including smart cities, autonomy, smart health, embedded systems, nanophotonics, and spintronics.