Before returning to AUB, Hazem was a principal engineer at Intel Corporation. At Intel, he led research and development for Intel’s manufacturing automation, where he received several patents, and numerous Intel Achievement Awards. On the academic front, Hazem received his bachelor degree in electrical engineering from AUB in 1987 with distinction, and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, where he also received several teaching awards, including the University Teaching Excellence Award. Between 2009 and 2013, Hazem directed AUB’s Intel Middle East Energy Efficiency Research (MER) Center, and is currently leading the project on Opinion Mining in Arabic. Hazem’s research interests include Data Mining, Energy-Aware and High Performance Computing with special interest in Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition, and Context-aware Mobile Sensing.