Fakhreddine Karray (S'89–M'90–SM'00) received the Ing. Dipl. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989.
He is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, and the Associate Director of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory. He is a coauthor of a textbook on soft computing entitled Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design (Addison-Wesley, 2004). He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, the International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, and the International Journal of Image Processing.. He has served as Chair/Co-Chair of more than 12 international conferences and technical programs and was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Conference on Logistics and Automation, China, in 2008 and the General Co-Chair of the International Conference on Systems, Circuits and Signals, Tunisia, in 2009. He is the holder of 13 U.S. patents in the areas of mechatronics and intelligent systems. His research interests are in autonomous systems and intelligent man-machine interfacing and mechatronics design, on which he has extensively authored. He is the local Waterloo Chapter Chair of the IEEE Control Systems and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Societies. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.