George Atia is an associate professor at the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he directs the Data Science and Machine Learning Lab. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, he received his doctoral degree at the from Boston University where he was also a member of the Information Systems and Sciences Lab and the Center for Information and Systems Engineering. He received his master’s degree and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Alexandria University in 2003 and 2000, respectively.