Mounir Boukadoum is professor of microelectronics engineering at The University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, Texas, USA. He has a background in both physics and electrical engineering, with an emphasis on biomedical applications, and his current research covers the applications of artificial intelligence and nature-inspired techniques to analysis and design problems, particularly in relation to biomedical outcomes. Pr. Boukadoum has held managerial positions at all academic cycles and is currently the executive director of the Quebec Strategic Alliance for microsystems (ReSMiQ), a research consortium of 10 Quebec universities and engineering schools. He is a cofounder of the NEWCAS conference, now a regional flagship conference of the IEEE CAS Society. Pr. Boukadoum has been an active member of IEEE for over 25 years, with involvement in the organization of several major IEEE conferences. He is a member of the IEEE NEWCAS, ICECS, LASCAS and ICM conferences’ steering committees, and of the IEEE Neural Systems and Applications technical committee (NSA-TC). He has published over 250 refereed journal and conference papers and has received both the outstanding teaching career award and the outstanding research career award from UQAM.