M. JAMAL DEEN

M. JAMAL DEEN (S’81–M’86–SM’92–F’03) was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, in 1978, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, in 1982 and1985, respectively. His dissertation was on the design and modeling of a new CARS spectrometer for dynamic temperature measurements and combustion optimization in rocket and jet engines and was sponsored by NASA, Cleveland.

From 1978 to 1980, he was an Instructor of physics with the University of Guyana, and from 1980 to 1983, he was a Research Assistant with CWRU. He was with Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, as a Research Engineer from 1983 to 1985 and an Assistant Professor from 1985 to 1986. In 1986, he joined the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, as an Assistant Professor, and from 1993 to 2002, he was a Full Professor. Since 1999, he has been a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. In July 2001, he was appointed Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, in the summer of 1986, and he spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scientist at Northern Telecom, Ottawa, during 1992–1993. He was a Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, in the summer of 1997 and a CNRS Directeur de Recherche with the Physics of Semiconductor Devices Laboratory, Grenoble, France, in the summer of 1998 and with the Université de Montpellier II, France, during 2002–2003. He has edited two research monographs and eight conference proceedings. He has also written 14 invited book chapters, published more that 340 peer-reviewed articles, and given more than 70 invited/keynote/plenary conference presentations. He is also the holder of six patents. His current research interests include microelectronics/nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.
Dr. Deen was a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar from 1980 to 1982, an American Vacuum Society Scholar from 1983 to 1984, and an NSERC Senior Industrial Fellow in 1993. He was a recipient of the 2002 Thomas D. Callinan Award from the Dielectric Science and Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society; the Distinguished Researcher Award, Province of Ontario, in July 2001; and the Humboldt Research Award in 2006. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society, an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONSON ELECTRON DEVICES, an Executive Editor of Fluctuations and Noise Letters, and a member of the Editorial Board of Interface and The Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.