Farid Touati received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Monastir College of Engineering, ENIM, Tunisia (1988) and M.S.  in Electrical Engineering Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, 1995. He has over 20 years’ experience in industrial electronics. He is working as an Associate Professor in Qatar University. He has over 20 years’ experience in industrial electronics. He has more 200 papers and several books/book chapters. He is carrying 7 QNRF research grants (worth $8.0 million). He was involved in NSF-­‐EPSCoR/NSF 00-­‐43 Grant, Alabama Research Infrastructure on “Integrated MEMS Photonics for Computer and Communication Systems: develop new integrated MEMS photonic devices and optical interconnection for parallel processing systems”, 2001-2004.

Farid Touati research interest includes: Sensors, Embedded system design, Biomedical systems (u-healthcare), Organic electronics