Ahmed M. Soliman was born in Cairo Egypt, on November 22, 1943. He received the B.Sc. degree with honors from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1964, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., U.S.A., in 1967 and 1970, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is currently Professor at Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt.

From September 1997-September 2003, Dr Soliman served as Professor and Chairman of Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt. From 1985-1987, Dr. Soliman served as Professor and Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates University, and from 1987-1991 he was the Associate Dean of Engineering at the same University. He has held visiting academic appointments at San Francisco State University, Florida Atlantic University and the American University in Cairo. He was a visiting scholar at Bochum University, Germany (Summer 1985) and with the Technical University of Wien, Austria (Summer 1987). In 2005, Dr Soliman was invited to visit Taiwan and gave lectures at Chung Yuan Christian University and at National Central University of Taiwan. Dr Soliman gave also a lecture at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr Soliman is a Member of the Editorial Board of the IET Circuits, Devices and Systems. Dr Soliman is a Member of the Editorial Board of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Dr Soliman served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Analog Circuits and Filters) from December 2001 to December 2003 and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing from January 2004-Now. In 1977, Dr. Soliman was decorated with the First Class Science Medal, from the President of Egypt, for his services to the field of Engineering and Engineering Education.