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IBRAHIM N. HAJJ |
Dean of Engineering and Architecture
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street
Beirut, Lebanon
Phone: 961–1–347–952
Fax: 961–1–744–462
OR
American University of Beirut
305 E. 47th Street, FL 8
New York, NY
10017–2303
E–mail:
ihajj@aub.edu.lb
Message from Dean 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 the Dean of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1978 to 2000 he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Bechman 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, member of ACM, Sigma Xi, and a member of the
Computer-Aided Network Design (CANDE) Technical Committee of the
Circuits and Systems Society (CASS).
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 (CASS) from January 1997 until December
1999, and served as the CASS Administrative Vice-President from
January 2000 to December 2001.