Mohamed Atef (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering, electronics and communications from Assiut University, Egypt, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, he got a research scholarship from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Microelectronics, he worked on the improvement of quantum dot optical properties. He received his PhD in 2010 from Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering, and then worked as a post-doctoral researcher until the end of 2012. Dr. Atef visited the School of Microelectronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, from 2015 to 2017. Mohamed Atef has been an Associate Professor at Assiut University, Egypt since 2016. In 2020 he joined Electrical Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, and he is still serving there as an Associate Professor. His research interests are in the areas of optoelectronic integrated circuits, and biomedical circuits and system. He is an author of two Springer books, "Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers: Integrated Optical Receiver Technology" and "Optoelectronic Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technology” and an author and co-author of more than 75 scientific publications. Mohamed Atef served as a TPC member in many IEEE conference, as a lead editor for Sensors Journal special issue (2019-2020), TBioCAS WFISEDIT 2019 and TBioCAS ISICAS 2020 special issues, and as an associate editor for TBioCAS (2020-present). Mohamed Atef is a member of the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (2018-present). He was awarded the State Encouragement Award in Advanced Technological Sciences Serving the Engineering Sciences for 2018 from the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).