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Professor rings up award for telecom work

Jamal Deen, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University, was recently presented with the 2011 IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Award at the 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering held in Niagara Falls.

May 24, 2011

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Jamal Deen, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University, was recently presented with the 2011 IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Award at the 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering held in Niagara Falls.

The R.A. Fessenden silver medal is presented to outstanding Canadian engineers
recognized for their important contributions to the field of telecommunications
engineering. The award was established in 2000 to remember the work of Canada's
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden [http://www.fessenden.ca], “the father of radio”, who
discovered how to transmit the sound of the human voice without wires.

Deen, cited for his “pioneering contributions in electronics and optoelectronics for
communications”, is one of the world's leading authorities in modeling and noise of
electronic and optoelectronic devices for communication systems. His practical models
for high-performance optical detectors and experimental innovations for reliability
prediction have contributed to the design and manufacture of reliable photodetectors
for fiber optic communications. He has also had considerable success in transferring
engineering and circuit models for designing communication circuits to numerous
companies.

Deen is a Fellow of IEEE and seven other societies including The Royal Society of
Canada, the American Physical Society (FAPS), and the Electrochemical Society, and is an
Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation. His other awards include the
2002 Callinan Award from the Electrochemical Society; a Humboldt Research Award
from the Humboldt Foundation, Germany in 2006; the Eadie Medal from The Royal
Society of Canada in 2008; and the Electronics and Photonics Division (EPD) Award from
the Electrochemical Society in 2011. His research record includes approximately 430
peer-reviewed articles, seven best paper awards and six patents used in industry.

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
is the world's largest professional society with over 400,000 members in more
than 160 countries. IEEE Canada is the Canadian arm of IEEE as well as the constituent
society of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for the technical fields of electrical,
electronics, and computer engineering.