Mohamed F. Hassan was born in Cairo, Egypt on June 21, 1947. He received the B.Sc.  and M.Sc. degrees in  Electrical Engineering  from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt in 1970 and 1973 respectively, and D.Sc. (Doctor d’Etat) in Systems Science and Automatic Control from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, 1978. He has been a faculty member in Electronics and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University since 1978 till now where he held the positions of Assistant Professor from 1978 to 1983. Associate Professor from 1983 to 1988 and Professor from 1988 till now. Currently he is on leave from Cairo University and joined Kuwait University where he is  a Professor of Control Engineering in College of Engineering and Petroleum. Prof. Hassan  was also  the  Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Computer Education Program, Department of Public Service, The American University in Cairo from 1985 to 1994. He was the recipient of many outstanding research prizes and medals from Egypt and USA. His research activities are in the areas of large scale systems, optimization theory, stochastic control theory, estimation theory and adaptive control. In addition to that ,  he   supervised  many projects sponsored by Egyptian government and US- Aid. Prof Hassan is a co-author of one book, author of many book chapters and encyclopedia chapters . Moreover, he is an author and co-author of more than 117 technical papers in most of the international journals and conferences.