Karim A. Tahboub is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine. His research is in the areas of dynamic systems and control,  robotics, human-machine interaction,  artificial intelligence, and physiological control systems.

Dr. Tahboub received the B. Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yarmouk University, Jordan in 1983, the M. Sc. degree in Dynamic Systems and Control from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 1986, and the Dr.-Ing. degree (with highest distinction) in Robotics from the University of Wuppertal, Germany in 1993. He was a visiting scholar / professor at  Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier in 1995, at the Intelligent Machines Lab of the MIT in 1998,  at the Institute of Perception, Action, and Behavior of the University of Edinburgh in 2001, and at the Artificial Intelligence Institute of the University of Freiburg in 2003.

Currently, Dr. Tahboub is a visiting professor in the Neurology Department of the School of Medicine at the University of Freiburg, Germany. There he teaches courses on  dynamic systems and physiological control systems and does research in the field of Neuro-Robotics and human movement control.