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.
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· Sep 2024 – Present · Sep 2018 – Sept 2024 · Jan 2016 – Sept 2016 · Sept 2015 – Aug 2018 · July 2011 – Aug 2015 |
Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Professor and Associate Dean College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Acting Associate Provost Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Professor and Founding Head of the ICT Division College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Professor ECE Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK |
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· Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · July 2007 – June 2011 |
Co- Director MIT-HKUST Consortium Associate Professor ECE Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK |
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· July 2008 – June 2010 |
Director Computer Eng., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK |
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· July 2008 – July 2015 |
Director Master of Science (MSc) in Integrated Circuit Design |
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· July 2002 – June 2007 |
Assistant Professor ECE Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK |
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· Dec 2001 – June 2002 |
Senior Lecturer (obtained through promotion in less than 2 years service) School of Eng. and Maths, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia |
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· Jan 2000 – Nov 2001 |
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) School of Eng. and Maths, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia |
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· Dec 1998 – Dec 1999 |
Post-doctoral Fellow Center for very high-speed microelectronic Systems, ECU, Perth, Australia |
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· Jan 1998 – Nov 1998 |
Research Associate Advanced Computer Architecture Group, The University of York, York, UK |
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· Dec 1994 – Jan 1998 |
Research Assistant Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems, French National Research Centre (LAAS-CNRS) & Motorola-Toulouse, France |
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· Feb 2000 – July 2002 |
Part time Consultant Intelligent Pixel Inc, Connecticut USA DigiSensory Technology, Sydney Australia |
Microelectronics and Microsystems , PhD, SysNeuro: a Digital Multi-precision Systolic Neural Circuit for Classification Tasks, Paul Sabatier University
1 Sept 1994 → 1 Sept 1998
Award Date: 1 Sept 1998
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HBKU-OVPR-TG-03-42: AI-Assisted Smart Interventional Needles with Engineered Acoustic Surfaces for Robust Ultrasound Visualization
Bermak, A. (Principal Investigator), Biswas, K. H. (Principal Investigator), El Tanani, M. A. A. (Lead Principal Investigator), Abarqouni, D. S. (Principal Investigator), Khelif, A. (Principal Investigator) & Khial, I. (Research Assistant)
1/11/25 → 31/10/27
Project: Applied Research
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HBKU-OVPR-FRG-03-6: Integrated Aerial-Ground Intelligent Sensing and AI Platform for Resource-Efficient and Sustainable Agriculture in Qatar’s Arid Climate
Chawla, S. (Principal Investigator), Bermak, A. (Lead Principal Investigator), Wang, B. (Principal Investigator), Shannak, S.A.-H. (Principal Investigator), Baldacci, R. (Principal Investigator), Shoukath Ali, S. T. (Graduate Student), Haj Hmida, M. A. (Graduate Student) & Laiadi, O. (Post Doctoral Fellow)
10/07/25 → 9/07/27
Project: Applied Research
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EX-QNRF-ARG-69: Light and Sound for Improved Artificial Vision
Bermak, A. (Lead Principal Investigator), Wang, B. (Principal Investigator), samir, B. B. (Principal Investigator), Khelif, A. (Principal Investigator), Liu, Y. H. (Principal Investigator), Khelif, A. (Principal Investigator), Abubakar, A. M. (Post Doctoral Fellow), Shoukath Ali, S. T. (Graduate Student) & Haj Hmida, M. A. (Graduate Student)
1/04/24 → 1/04/27
Project: Applied Research
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Explainable AI-Driven Optimized LSTM for Heart Sound Classification and Diagnostic Support
Khan, F. A., Hassan, A., Anwar, L. & Bermak, A., 2027, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 24th International Conference, AIME 2026, Proceedings. Andreev, P., Van Woensel, W., Sauré, A. & Holmes, J. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 24-28 5 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16749 LNCS).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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A 4 nW 114 dB DR Electrochemical Sensing Interface IC with Digital-Intensive Regulation Loop
Awan, M. A., Farooq, M. H., Bermak, A., Akram, M. A. & Wang, B., 28 May 2026, ISCAS 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 4513-4517 5 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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A Comprehensive Analytical Approach to Introspect Efficient Miniaturized Circuit-Level Designs for Biomedical Signal Acquisition: A Tutorial Brief
Mohammad, U., Zhang, Y., Zada, M., Zhang, M., Tang, F., Guo, Y. & Bermak, A., 12 Jan 2026, In: IEEE Sensors Journal. 26, 5, p. 6567-6578 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Adaptive malware detection using sequential feature selection: A dueling double deep Q-Network framework for intelligent classification
Khan, N., Al-Tamimi, A., Bermak, A. & Khalil, I., Jun 2026, In: Journal of Information Security and Applications. 99, 13 p., 104407.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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