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Mottaqiallah Taouil received his Master of Science and PhD (with honors) from Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. During doctoral research he developed 3D-COSTAR, which received the Hipeach Technology Transfer Award in 2015. After his PhD, he continued as a post-doctoral researcher at the Computer Engineering Lab of the same university and in 2018 was appointed an assistant professor. He has been collaborating with academic and industrial partners such as ESA (the Netherlands), IMEC (Belgium), etc. His research focuses on two domains: dependability (including reliability, testability, hardware security) and emerging computer paradigms (3D stacked ICs, resistive architectures). Taouil has published over 90 journal and conference papers on a variety of topics, with a total citations of 693, h-index = 16 and i10-index = 25. He has reviewed articles for many major journals and conferences and received several best papers awards in a variety of topics. Taouil has been involved in teaching courses such as VLSI Test Technology & Reliability, Algorithms and Data Structures, System Programming in C and has developed a new course on hardware security. Furthermore, he has been involved in many professional activities such as organizing conferences and summer schools, where he held several positions such as Program Chair, Publication Chair, Web Chair, etc.