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IBRAHIM N. HAJJ

 

Brief Biography

IBRAHIM N. HAJJ received the B.E. degree (with distinction) from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, the M.S. degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.

He is currently professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He served as the Dean of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut from 2000 to 2010, and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at AUB from 2010 to 2014.  From 1978 to 2000 he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

His current research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, design for reliability and low-power synthesis, physical design, and testing. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers and book chapters on these subjects.  

Dr. Hajj is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. In 1992, he was co-recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Best Paper Award. He also received, together with his students, four best conference paper awards. He served on the Board of Governors of Circuits and Systems Society. He received a Golden Jubilee Medal of CASS in 1999.