Prof. Ahmed Sharif is a Professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh. After obtaining his PhD in 2005, he subsequently became Professor and Head of the Department in 2014. He is also a Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed (SCI listed) papers in leading international journals on soldering and ferroelectric materials research and has been invited to numerous international conferences to present keynote lectures. Recently, he has edited a book on Harsh Environment Electronics which was published by Wiley. He has received numerous awards including the IEEE-CPMT Young Scientist Award (for his paper at the IEEE-conference in Japan) and the Outstanding Researcher Award from City University of Hong Kong.