The Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Khaled Nabil SALAMA - one of its 1997 alumni - and who is currently a leading researchers in Electronics wprldwide. Dr. SALAMA presented a very interesting tutorial on MERMISTORS, and invited the audience to join the hot research currently underway in this very new domain. Following is a short description of the tutorial and a brief biography for the speaker.

Abstract:
The tutorial is divided to two parts: an initiation and a more in depth treatment. Attendants will learn about the history of the memristor, how it is modeled at various levels of abstractions, its use as memory element, its use in digital and analog circuits, and its future potential.
The tutorial assumes basic Electronics background and will be a good initiation for interested researchers.

Speaker's Biography:

Dr. Khaled Nabil Salama is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST. He assumed his duties in July 2009.
The author of 68 papers and six patents, Dr. Salama works on developing devices, circuits, systems, and algorithms to enable inexpensive portable analytical platforms for a variety of industrial, environmental, and biomedical applications. His work on low-light fully integrated CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors for molecular detection has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), awarded the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators Challenge Award in biological sciences and was recently acquired by Lumina Inc. He is the organizer of various conference special sessions and journal special issues on biosensors, low-power mixed-signal circuits for intelligent sensors, and medical instrumentation.