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Biography

Dr. Hassen M. Ouakad was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1983. He received the B.Sc. degree, with honors, in Mechanics and Structures in 2007 from Tunisia Polytechnic School. In 2008 he received a master degree in Computational Mechanics from a joint graduate program between Tunisia Polytechnic School, Tunisia, and Virginia Tech, VA, USA. Then he joined the MEMS characterization and Motion Lab of the State University of New-York at Binghamton (NY, ISA), where he received the Ph.D. degree in 2010. In January 2011, he joined the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Texas A&M University in the Education City of Doha, State of Qatar, as a Postdoc Research Assistant. In September 2011 he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of King Fahd University as an Assistant Professor. He got promoted to the rank of Associate Professor since April 2016. Since September 2018, he joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of Sultan Qaboos university in Oman as Associate Professor where he currently heads the System Dynamics and Control Laboratory. Dr. Ouakad is the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in research award granted by the Watson School of the State University of New-York at Binghamton, NY, USA. He was also awarded both the excellence in teaching and the excellence in academic advising from the Engineering College of King Fahd University in May 2016 and April 2017 respectively. Moreover, He was awarded the excellence in Research Award from the Deanship of Scientific Research at KFUPM back in May 2018. Dr. Ouakad developed numerical/experimental techniques to characterize miniaturized devices rely on non-parallel plates electric actuating fields. He authored and co-authored more than ninety scientific articles published in highly ISI ranked international journals and referred conference proceedings. His work has been cited more than 1000 times and his H index is 14. Dr. Ouakad is a member in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS Journal, the Springer Microsystem Technologies, the Journal of Vibrations and Control, the International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering (IJAME) and serve in the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Computational Mechanics (JAMC). In addition, he served on few scientific committees of national and international symposiums and conferences.