Dr. Mohamed M. Atia received B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in computer systems from Ain Shams University in 2000 and 2006 and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston in 2013. He held several full-time positions in the industry developing algorithms for natural language processing, online speech recognition, and real-time embedded multi-sensors navigation, guidance, and control systems. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Atia is a recipient of the Alberta Innovate Association Award in 2011, the IEEE Excellence in Ph.D. research in 2013, Mitacs Elevate Industrial Postdoc Award in 2014, NSERC PDF Award in 2015, and Queen’s University Teaching Award in 2016.