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Yehea Ismail's Home Page

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
Evanston , IL60208-3118
Phone: (847) 467-1849
Fax: (847) 467-4144
E-mail: ismail@ece.northwestern.edu

Yehea I. Ismail attended the school of engineering, Department of Electronics and Communications at Cairo University from 1988 to 1993 where he received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering with distinction and honors. During his study, he was a recipient of the outstanding student academic award for four consecutive years (1990-1993) from Cairo University . As a top student of his class, he was appointed as a teacher assistant at the Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering, CairoUniversity in August 1993. He received his first Masters degree in Electronics from Cairo University (distinction), Egypt on June 1996. He came to the University of Rochester on September 1996 where he received a second Masters in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and a Ph.D. in April 2000.

He was with IBM Cairo Scientific Center (CSC) from 1993 to 1996  and worked with IBM Microelectronics at East Fishkill, NY  from 1997 to 1999. He has co-authored more than 90 technical papers and a book. His primary research interests include interconnect, noise, innovative circuit simulation, and related circuit level issues in high performance VLSI circuits.

Yehea  I. Ismail served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, (2007-present)
an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, (2000-2006)
an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, (2000-2005)
and a Guest Editor for an IEEE TVLSI special issue on  "On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits" (2003)
Technical Chair of the  IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (2002, 2003)

Technical Chair for the Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large scale Integration-GLSVLSI (2004)

General Chair for the Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large scale Integration-GLSVLSI (2005)

Chair of the VLSI Track, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems-ISCAS (2006)

Chair of the Timing and Power subcommittee in The International Conference on Computer Aided Design-ICCAD (2005, 2006)

Member of the Design Automation Conference-DAC technical committee (2005, 2006)

Editorial board of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers-JSCS (2006-present)

Professor Ismail was selected as the 2002 IEEE circuits and systems society outstanding young author award winner.  (Pictures)

Professor Ismail won the National Science Foundation Career award for 2002.

Professor Ismail was given the best teacher award in the ECE department, Northwestern University in 2002-2003.

Professor Ismail served as the director of the Computer Engineering Undergraduate program 2003-2004.

Professor Ismail is the chair elect of the IEEE VLSI Technical Committee 2006-present.

Professor Ismail is the chair of the Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee 2006-present.

CV (February, 2007)

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