Dr. Falah Awwad received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada) in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Between August 2007 – Feb. 2013, he was an Assistant Professor with the College of Information Technology (CIT) at United Arab Emirates University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering – College of Engineering (UAE University). He is a member of the editorial Board of Journal of “Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology” and "Austin Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology". He is the recipient of the CIT Faculty Outstanding Service Award. The evaluation was done based on his professional and community service during the period 2009 - 2012. His scientific research interests are Low-Power High-Speed VLSI Systems including repeater-insertion methodologies for on-chip interconnects, Biomedical Imaging Systems, Network on Chip, Wireless Body Sensors/Sensor Networks, and Network Communication algorithms.

Dr. Falah Awwad 's research interests focus on: VLSI Design Medical Imaging Sensor networks Emerging Technologies