Feras Al-Dirini (Member, IEEE) recieved the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electronics engineering from Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2015.
He joined the Electrical Engineering Department, KFUPM, in September 2017, as an Assistant Professor, coming from the University of Melbourne in Australia - where he was working with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, since 2015. From 2009 to 2010, he was an Exchange Student with the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA, and in the Summer of 2009, he was a Research Intern with the Institute for Microsystems Technology, Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg, Germany. His research interests are in nano electronics, nanotechnology, intelligent electronics, and intelligent sensors. Since joining KFUPM, in 2017, he has focused his efforts towards establishing a research program on Intelligent Electronics (next-generation hardware technologies for energy-efficient machine intelligence) and their use in novel applications, such as Intelligent Sensing. He was a recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award and the National ICT Australia Ph.D. Top-Up Scholarship, from 2011 to 2015. He also received numerous prestigious regional awards by the IEEE, such as the IEEE Darrel Chong Award, for his volunteer leadership service during his early years as a student for a number of impactful regional contributions he made, such as his inception of the IEEE Middle East Student Branch Congress (ME-SBC), in 2009, which later developed to become the IEEE MESYP. He also received the Princess Sumaya Scholarship, from 2007 to 2011, and the Edexcel International High Achiever Award, in 2006, for topping all A-Level GCE examinees in Jordan. He is a member of IEEE and the Australian Nanotechnology Network.