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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