Prof. Amine Bermak received the Masters and PhD degrees, both in electrical and electronic engineering, from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He has held many positions in various continents including full Professor at HKUST Hong Kong, Senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University Australia and a Post-doc at York University, England in a project funded by British Aerospace. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean at the College of Science and Engineering (CSE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. 

Prof. Bermak has made fundamental and seminal contributions that range from theory, circuit design techniques, and applications to working systems in the areas of ultra-low power sensory systems, applied to vision, olfaction, temperature sensors, wearable devices and AI systems. He is the recipient of 6 best papers awards and the winner of the 2011 Michael G. Gale Medal for distinguished teaching at HKUST and the “Engineering School Teaching Excellence Award". He is the recipient of the best researcher award at CSE in 2019 and best innovator award at HBKU in 2022; the service excellence award at HBKU in 2023 and research excellence award at HBKU in 2024. Prof. Bermak has 13 patents and over 500 articles in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has supervised and graduated 38 PhD and 34 MSc students and designed with his students over 50 VLSI chips. He has been very actively involved in many research and industrial projects in collaboration with Motorola-France, TI, Intel, 3D plus- France, British Aerospace-UK, Intelligent Pixel Inc. – USA, ASTRI- Hong Kong; with a research grant portfolio of over 20M USD. He has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems; IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Nature Scientific Reports. He was the general chair of numerous international conferences such as IEEE BioCAS 2009; IEEE Delta 2010 and IEEE ICM 2024. Prof. Bermak was the co-director of MIT-HKUST Consortium. He is an IEEE distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of AAIA and a Fellow of IEEE. He is also the chair of HBKU University Senate.

IC design and VLSI Systems; IC design for signal and image processing; Smart image, olfactory and temperature sensors; E-Nose Microsystems; Wearable and printed Electronics; Edge Intelligence and AI Circuits and Systems.