Dr. Mohamed Bakr is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University. He also worked for the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Victoria in Canada as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Bakr received a Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) from the province of Ontario in 2003. He also received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award in 2011. His research interests include optimization methods, computer-aided design, modeling circuits and photonic devices, nanotechnology, neural network applications, smart analysis, and efficient optimization using time/frequency domain methods. He is the author/co-author of over 200 journal and conference papers, two book chapters on optimization and electromagnetic modeling, and two patents.