Biography

Dr. Karam received the B.S. (2012) and M.S. (2016) degrees in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, USA in 2017.

From 2012 to 2017, he was with the L. Stokes Cleveland VA Hospital, Advanced Platform Technology Center (APTC) as a Biomedical Engineer, where he developed novel algorithms and hardware for processing bladder pressure signals. In 2017 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor, where he conducts research in the areas of hardware security, reconfigurable computing, and algorithm and hardware co-design for implantable devices and wearables.

Dr. Karam is a member of the IEEE (EMB and CAS Societies) and ACM (SIGDA), and has served as a reviewer for several IEEE journals, including Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS) and Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS). He received an NSF Award for Young Professionals Contributing to Smart and Connected Health at the 2016 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), as well as a Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS).