Dr. Nasir Alfaraj is a KAUST Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellow at The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, 2019), Saudi Arabia. He received his BSc (2013) and MSc (2015) degrees from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, and KAUST, respectively, in electrical engineering. Dr. Alfaraj is a member of the Helmy Group, and his research interests include the growth, fabrication, and characterization of CMOS-compatible semiconductor nanostructures and devices for nano-photonic devices/circuits using hybrid metallic architectures.