Kareem received his PhD degree in the Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he was recognized as the 2020 Outstanding PhD Student awardee and Research Excellence awardee in 2018 & 2019. His PhD work was focused on simulating, fabricating, and characterizing flexible and reconfigurable liquid-metal electronics that address environmental challenges. In a parallel track, Kareem worked as IC designer, with a large team of physicists and engineers, for Belle-II-Experiment chips (particle collider, KEK, Japan) and NASA projects. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering. His Masters thesis was on modeling the interactions between light waves and nano-structured optical metamaterials to achieve controllable light absorption, which can be utilized for solar applications. After finishing his Masters, he worked on a wide spectrum of research projects at the University of California Berkeley, IBM-Egypt Nanotechnology Center, and Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Examples of these projects include micro and nano fabrication techniques, printed electronics, soft lithography, photonic sintering.