Dr. Mohamed Elmasry

Mohamed Elmasry, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo has invented, developed and helped introduce into industry several new technologies influencing the growth of microelectronics in Canada and abroad. His scholarly research has resulted in no less than five distinct generations of integrated circuit designs. His revolutionary work on low-energy logic circuits some 20 years ago is now finding wide applications in portable telecommunications devices. Elmasry has done pioneering work in artificial neural network chip design, leading to self-learning chips, speech and character recognition systems, vocoders and echo cancellation systems. He holds 9 patents and is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 250 scientific publications.