M. Jamal Deen was born in Georgetown, Guyana, South America. He completed a Ph.D. degree (1985) in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.A. His Ph.D. 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 and used by NASA, Cleveland, USA. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holder of the Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology and Director of the Micro- and Nano-Systems laboratory, McMaster University. His research interests are icroelectronics/ nanoelectronics and optoelectronics and their emerging applications. Currently, he is leading or participating in several collaborative research projects on biomedical and environmental applications of nanotechnology and nanoscience.

Dr. Deen was a Fulbright Scholar (under the Latin American program) from 1980 to 1982, an American Vacuum Society Scholar from 1983 to 1984, and a NSERC Senior Industrial Fellow in 1993. Dr. Deen was awarded the 2002 Callinan Award from the Electrochemical Society; a Humboldt Research Award in 2006; and has won seven best paper awards. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society. Dr. Deen’s research record includes about 380 peer-reviewed articles (about 80 are invited), 14 invited book chapters and 7 awarded patents. Dr. Deen is currently an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Executive Editor of Fluctuations and Noise Letters.

Dr. Deen has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), a Fellow (Foreign) of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FINAE), a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of The Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (FECS), a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) and an Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation (HonMWIF)– the foundation’s highest honor.