Biographical Sketch of Prof. M. Jamal Deen
Dr. M. Jamal Deen was born in Georgetown, Guyana, South Ameriica. He
completed a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics at the
From 1978-1980, Dr. Deen was an Instructor of
Physics at the University of Guyana, and from 1980 to 1983, he was a Research
Assistant at Case Western Reserve University. He was a Research Engineer
(1983-1985) and then an Assistant Professor (1985 -1986) at Lehigh University,
Dr. Deen was a Visiting Scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,, National Research Council,
Dr. Deen has published extensively
in microelectronics/nanolectronics and
optoelectronics. Dr. Deen’s research record includes
more than 500 peer-reviewed articles (about 20% are invited), two
textbooks on Silicon
Photonics—Fundamentals and Devices (Wiley, 2012), Fiber Optic Communications – Fundamentals and Applications (Wiley 2014), 20 authored/edited
books and conference proceedings, 16 invited book chapters, six awarded patents
that have been used in industry, and 13 best
paper/poster/presentation awards. He has given one hundred and forty-eight invited/keynote/plenary
conference presentations. He has also served as a consultant to the
semiconductor industry in Canada, the USA and Japan. His research interests
include nanoelectronics, optoelectronics,
nanotechnology, and their emerging applications in health and environmental
sciences.
Dr. Deen is/was an
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001-2010); a founding
Executive Editor of Fluctuations and Noise Letters (2001-present); and a Member
of the Editorial Boards of the following journals - Interface, The Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the International Journal of
High Speed Electronics and Systems, the Microelectronics Journal and the Open
Journal of Applied Physics. He is also the Regional Editor for
Dr. Deen's students are
well-respected in industry. For example, his students now work at several major
national and international companies such as AT&T Bell
Labs (USA), Conexant Inc.
(USA), Intel (USA), Texas
Instruments (USA), Siemens
Corporation (Germany), Glenayre Electronics
R&D (Canada), Nortel
Networks (Canada), Perkin-Elmer
(Canada) and PMC Sierra (Canada).
Dr. Deen is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical Engineering honor society. As
an undergraduate student, he was the top physics and mathematics student,
winning both the Chancellor’s
medal as the second best graduating student (in the
university) and the Irving
Adler prize as the best mathematics student (1978). As a
graduate student, he was a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar from
1980 to 1982 and an American
Vacuum Society Scholar from 1983
to 1984. He was awarded a NSERC
Senior Industrial Fellow in 1993.
Dr. Deen is a Distinguished Lecturer of
the IEEE Electron Device Society; was awarded the 2002 Thomas D. Callinan
Award (2002) as well as the Electronics and Photonics Division Award (2011) from the Electrochemical Society; the Distinguished Researcher Award, Province of Ontario in July 2001; a Humboldt Research Award (2006) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation;
an IBM Faculty Award in 2006; the Eadie Medal
from the Royal Society of Canada in 2008, the McNaughton Gold Medal in
2013, the Fessenden Silver Medal in 2011, as well as the Ham Education Medal in 2014, all from IEEE Canada..
Dr. Deen has been elected
by his peers as Fellow/Member of ten national academies and professional
societies - Fellow of The Royal Society
of Canada (FRSC) -
The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Member
(Academician) - European Academy of Sciences and Arts (MEASA).a
Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FINAE-Foreign), a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of
Sciences India (FNASI-Foreign); a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of The American Physical Society (FAPS), a
Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (FECS), a Fellow of The
American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS), a
Fellow of The Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC)
and an Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation (HonMWIF) – the foundation’s highest honor.
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