Hassan B. Diab received his BSc in Communications Engineering in 1981, his MSc in Systems Engineering in 1982, and his PhD in Computer Engineering in 1985. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon and has over 23 years of experience. He has 117 publications in internationally refereed journals and conferences. His research interests include cryptography on high performance computer systems, modeling and simulation of parallel processing systems, embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, simulation of parallel applications, and the application of simulation for engineering education. He has served as member on 40 organizing committees of international conferences and refereed over 300 papers for over 50 different international journals and conferences as well as acting as an external referee for many promotion applications and research proposals. He served as the Associate Editor of the SIMULATION Journal, Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, USA. From 2005 – 2006, he was a member of the Scientific Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman. Professor Diab received 13 international and regional awards including the Fulbright Research Award (1988), and the 1992 Young Arab Scientists Shuman prize in Engineering. He was seconded by AUB to serve as Dean of the College of Engineering and Acting President of Dhofar University, Oman (2004 –2005), and later as Founding President and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering (2005 – 2006). Effective October 2006, he was appointed as Vice President for Regional External Programs at AUB. He is a Founding Member of the first Arab Computer Society established in 2001 as well as the Founding Member of the IEEE Student Branch at AUB in 1997. Professor Diab is a Fellow in the IEE and the IEAust, as well as a Senior Member of the IEEE.