Tareq Al-Naffouri received the B.S. degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering (with first honors) from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford in 2004. He was a visiting scholar at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 2005 and summer 2006 and a  Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California in 2008. He was Faculty at the Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM 2005-2012. He is currently a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research interests lie in the areas of sparse, adaptive, and statistical inference/learning and their applications to wireless communications, localization, smart cities, and smart health.  He has over 370 publications in journal and conference proceedings and 24 issued/pending patents. He has won the IEEE Education Society Chapter Achievement Award (2008), Almarie Award for Innovative research in communication (2009), and AbdulHameed Shoman Prize for innovative research in IoT (2022).