Dr. Kahrizi is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. His research spans a wide spectrum under the umbrella of Material Sciences, Solid State Devices, Microelectromechanical Systems, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has been actively involved to investigate the fundamental issues related to micro and nano structures, designing and fabricating micro/nano devices with applications in biomedical, sensors, and energy storage. Most recently, he is involved with researches to develop low cost fabrication of semiconductor nanowires, like silicon, ZnO and TiO2 with applications to develop greenhouse gas detectors, hydrogen storage and detection of micro molecules in water. He is the author and coauthor of almost 200 journal and conference articles.