Karim S. Karim received his BASc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an MBA in Health Sector Management from the University of Toronto. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of KA Imaging, the Executive Director for the Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Since 1998, Karim has developed novel X-ray imaging devices and methods. He has trained over 40 PhD and MASc students, has co-authored 250+ publications and has 50+ patents. Karim has founded multiple companies in the past two decades including KA Imaging, a University of Waterloo spinoff that is commercializing his X-ray research including Reveal, the world’s only portable dual energy spectral X-ray detector that recently received US FDA 510(k) clearance and is now being used clinically in North America to detect lung cancer and pneumonia (including COVID-19). Some of the imaging circuit technology developed during Karim’s graduate work is also now used in ultrasonic fingerprint sensors in commercial mobile phones and tablets.