Dr. Fakhreddine Karray received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (89) in the area of Systems and Control. He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and the Associate Director of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence group.
He is recipient of a number of national and international awards pertinent to his profession. He has authored/co-authored more than 230 articles in journals and conferences proceedings and holds a dozen US patents in the field of intelligent systems and their applications. He is also the co-author of a widely adopted graduate textbook in soft computing and computational intelligence: Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design, Addison Wesley Publishing, 2004.

He serves on the editorial board of a number of eminent journals and has served as Chair/ co-Chair for more than 15 International Conferences and Technical Program Committees. He has chaired the Technical Program of ASTF’s major conference SRO since 2004. He is an active member of the IEEE Control Systems Society’s Technical Committee on Intelligent Control and is also the Kitchener Waterloo Chapter Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is the co-founder of two companies in Canada in the field of intelligent mechatronics and speech recognition and serves on the board of directors of few companies and foundations among which is ASTF.