Prof. Yehea Ismail

Yehea Ismail is the director of the Nanoelectronics and Devices Center at Zewail City and the American University in Cairo. He was a tenured professor with Northwestern University, USA from 2000 to April 2012. Professor Ismail is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) and the chair elect of the IEEE VLSI technical committee. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, and a guest editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems on “On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits”. He has also chaired many conferences such as GLSVLSI, IWSOC, ISCAS. He is the Chief Scientist of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt.

Professor Ismail has several awards such as the USA National Science Foundation Career Award, the IEEE CAS Outstanding Author Award, Best Teacher Award at Northwestern University, and many other best teaching awards and best paper awards. Professor Ismail is the distinguished lecturer of IEEE CASS. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Professor Ismail has published more than 200 papers in top refereed journals and conferences and many patents. He co-authored three books: On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits, Handbook on Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design, and Temperature-Aware Computer Architecture. He has many patents in the area of high performance circuits and interconnect design and modeling. His work is some of the most highly cited in the VLSI area and is extensively used by industry.