Khaled Bounar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in New York and is an IEEE senior life member. He worked as a Senior Principal in systems engineering architecture and design at an international aerospace company. He intends to apply mathematics and advanced signal processing algorithms in the design, modeling, simulation, and evaluation of engineered systems.

As Chief Technical Lead for TSI, Ms. Kutrubes uses her M.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA, and nearly 40 years of experience, to solve challenging geotechnical, environmental, infrastructure, and hydrogeologic problems. As President and Founder of Radar Solutions International, Inc., she has been on tens of thousands of assignments across the world, but her passion is finding potable sources of water and locating sources of contamination that threatens them. During her long career, Ms. Kutrubes has consulted with GSSI, Inc., the world’s leading GPR manufacturer, to beta-test their GPR software, RADAN © , and her firm was one of the first commercial entities in the U.S. to integrate GPS-guidance with GPR and other instrumentation, and image GPR results in 2D and 3D depth slice formats using GPR-Slice ©.

Dr. Mohammed Rachedine’s experience extends over 30 years and includes positions in academia and industry, as well as government. Currently, he is a primary patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Before joining the USPTO, he worked as an RFIC design engineer at Motorola Corporation and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. His principal responsibilities included designing, testing, and evaluating integrated transceivers for cellular phones. Prior to joining Motorola, he was a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at Hampton University. Dr. Rachedine holds several patents and has published multiple articles in professional engineering journals.

Rabah Seffal holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He recently retired from Caterpillar after a 24-year career as a senior engineering specialist. He is the current financial director of TSI and is also the treasurer of the Amazigh Cultural Association in America.

Jane Hosie-Bounar is a Product Manager at an international software company. She is also an author, and has written a number of software textbooks, as well as an award-winning novel. She is passionate about social justice, and is excited about the opportunities TSI will help to provide to communities in need.