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UBAID M. AL-SAGGAF received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering and the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in mathematics from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1980, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, USA, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 1986 and then an Associate Professor in 1991. He was on leave from 1992 to 2010 and worked for the Ministry of Defense and Aviation as an Executive Technical Advisor for the Research and Development Department. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, in 2010, where he is currently a Professor. He is also the Director of the Center of Excellence in Intelligent Engineering Systems (CEIES), and the Director of Innovation and Prototyping Center (IPC) both at King Abdulaziz University. One of his main tasks and interests is transferring research to products and commercialization. His field of interests and specializations covers a wide spectrum from theoretical to practical aspects of engineering, including systems, control, signal processing, communications, and optronics. He has published several journals and conference papers and supervised and co-supervised several M Sc. and Ph. D. students.