Amara Amara (Senior Member, IEEE) received the HDR (Confirmation of Leading Research Capabilities) degree from Evry University and the Ph.D. degree from Paris VI University in 1989. In 1988, he joined the IBM Research and Development Laboratory, Corbeil-Essonnes, as a Visiting Researcher, where he was involved in SRAM memory design with advanced CMOS technologies. In 1992, he joined the Paris Institute for Electronics (ISEP) in charge of the Microelectronics Laboratory, where he headed a joint team (Paris VI and ISEP) involved in highspeed GaAs VLSI circuit design. He established the LISTE Laboratory composed of more than 40 researchers in the fields of micro and nano electronics, image and signal processing, and big data processing and analysis. He is the coauthor of three books on Molecular Electronics, Double Gate Devices and Circuits, and Emerging Technologies. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 conference papers and journal articles. He was also the advisor of more than 20 Ph.D. students. He was the Deputy Managing Director of ISEP in charge of Research and International Cooperation since March 2017. He then joined in June 2017 “Terre des hommes” (Tdh) an international NGO specialized in child protection where he was in charge of ICT for Development (ICT4D) and Artificial Intelligence for Health. He was the President of the CAS Society from 2020 to 2021. He is the former IEEE France Section Chair and the Co-Founder and the Chair of the IEEE France CASS Chapter.