Mohamed Nafea is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Before joining Missouri S&T, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at University of Detroit. Prior to that, he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, ECE. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University Park in December 2018, under supervision of Prof. Aylin Yener. He also received a masters degree in mathematics from Penn State in 2017. His research lies at the intersection of statistical learning, information and data sciences, and causal reasoning, and aims to solve problems in responsible artificial intelligence including issues of fairness, privacy, security, and explainability of learning systems. He is a recipient of the 2023 NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award in support of his research in fair machine learning.