Michel Nakhla, Ph.
D. (Waterloo), P.Eng.
Chancellor's
Professor
5170 ME,
Department of Electronics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - K1S 5B6
Ph: 613-520-5780; Fax: 613-520-5708
msn@doe.carleton.ca
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BRIEF
BIOGRAPHY
Michel S. Nakhla is a Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Carleton University. He received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1973
and 1975, respectively. From 1976-88 he was with Bell-Northern Research,
Ottawa, Canada, as the senior manager of the computer-aided engineering group.
In 1988, he joined Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada as a professor and the
holder of the Computer-Aided Engineering Senior Industrial Chair established by
Bell-Northern Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada. He is the founder of the high-speed CAD research group at
Carleton University and is a frequent invited speaker on the topic of
high-speed interconnects. He is one of the first pioneers to introduce the
concept of Harmonic Balance, which is the backbone of current RF and microwave
circuit simulators. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE 2002 Microwave prize in
recognition of the most significant contribution by a published paper to the
field of interest to the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He was
awarded the IEEE Fellowship in 1998 for his contributions to the development of
advanced computer-aided design techniques for microwave circuits and high-speed
interconnects. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers
that contributed significantly to the evolution of the Design Automation field.
He is serving on various
international committees, including the Executive Committee of the IEEE
International Signal Propagation on Interconnects Workshop (SPI), the Technical
Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the
Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical
Performance of Electronic Packaging and the CAD committee (MTT-1) of the IEEE
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Advanced Packaging and served as Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems and as Associate Editor of the Circuits,
Systems and Signal Processing Journal. He was the general Co-Chair of the 2002
and 2003 IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging
(EPEP). He served as member of the Technical Coordinating Committee of the
Canadian Microelectronic Center of Excellence (MICRONET). He is on the
Review Boards of various technical journals, including the IEEE Transactions on
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology and the
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters in addition to several non-IEEE
international publications. He has also served as a member of many Canadian and
international government-sponsored research grants selection panels He serves
as a technical consultant for several industrial organizations and is the
principal investigator for several major sponsored research projects. His
research interests include design automation, high-speed circuits and
interconnects, parallel processing, nonlinear circuits, multidisciplinary
optimization, thermal and electromagnetic emission analysis, MEMS and neural
networks.
Academic/Industrial Experience
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2003-present Chancellor's Professor: Department of
Electronics, Carleton University, |
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2001-2003
Chairman: Department of Electronics, Carleton University, |
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1988-2003 Professor: Department of
Electronics, Carleton University, |
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1983-1988 Senior
Manager: VLSI Design Automation, Bell-Northern Research/NORTEL, Canada |
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1980-1983 Manager:
Computer-Aided Engineering Group, Bell-Northern Research, Canada |
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1976-1980 Senior
Research Engineer, Bell-Northern Research, Canada |
Scholarly and Professional Activities
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Co-Chair, IEEE Topical Meeting on
Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging (EPEP), October 2002 and
October 2003. |
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Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems- Fundamental Theory and Applications (2001-04). |
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Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing Journal. |
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Associate Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology: Advanced
Packaging. |
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Guest-Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Special issue on “Advances in
Simulation of High-Speed Circuits and Interconnects,” May 2000. |
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Member of the Executive
Committee of the IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic
Packaging (EPEP); 2002-2005 |
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Member of the Executive
Committee of the IEEE International Signal Propagation on Interconnects
Workshop (SPI); 1998- present |
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Member of the Technical
Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS); 2000-present. |
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Invited “Distinguished
Scholar”, Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC), Singapore, November 2003. |
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Member of the Technical
Program Committee of the IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of
Electronic Packaging (EPEP); 1998-present. |
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Member of the CAD committee
(MTT-1) of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; 1999-present. |
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Member of the Information
and Communication Technology Strategic Grant Selection Panel, Natural Science
and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC); 2000-03 |
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Member of the Technical
Coordinating Committee of MICRONET; Canadian Microelectronic Center of
Excellence; 1996-2005. |
Honours
- Elected
IEEE Fellow in 1998 for contributions to the development of advanced
computer-aided design techniques for microwave circuits and high-speed
interconnects.
- Co-recipient
of the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Best Paper Award 2007.
- Co-recipient
of the IEEE 2002 Microwave prize in recognition of the most significant contribution
by a published paper to the field of interest to the Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society.
- Recipient
of IBM Faculty Award 2004.
- Recipient
of IBM Faculty Award 2005.
- Recipient
of Carleton University Research Achievement Award 2007..
- NORTEL/NSERC
Senior Industrial Chair in Computer-aided Engineering (1988-98).
- Recipient
of Carleton University Research Achievement Award, 1999.
- Recipient
of Carleton University Graduate Teaching Achievement Award, 1999.
- Recipent
of two NORTEL Outstanding Contribution Patent Awards.
Research Interests:
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Computer-Aided Design Tools and
Methodologies for Managing Complexity of High-Speed Circuits and Systems |
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Parallel
Computing |
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Design tools for mixed analog/digital high frequency circuits; |
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Modeling and simulation of high-speed interconnects; |
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Multidisciplinary optimization; Statistical simulation and design centring; |
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Thermal and EM emission analysis; |
Contact
Prof. Michel Nakhla,
Department
of Electronics,
Ph: 613-520-5780; Fax: 613-520-5708
Email: msn@doe.carleton.ca
URL: http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~msn
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