Professor Yehea Ismail
academic title
Director of the Center for Nanoelectronics and Devices
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Email: Yismail@zewailcity.edu.eg
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Professor Yehea Ismail is the director of the Center for Nanoelectronics and Devices (CND) at Zewail City of Science and Technology and the American University in Cairo.
He was a tenured professor with Northwestern University in the United States 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 was 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 the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), the International Workshop on System-on-Chip (IWSOC), and the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). He was also the chief scientist of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt.
Ismail majored in engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He earned his first Master of Science degree in electronics from Cairo University. He then moved to the University of Rochester in the United States where he obtained his second Master of Science degree in VLSI circuit design in addition to his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Ismail has received several awards such as the U.S. National Science Foundation Career Award, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Outstanding Author Award, Best Teacher Award at Northwestern University, and many other best teaching awards and best paper awards. Professor Ismail is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE CASS. He is an IEEE fellow.
Ismail has published more than 200 papers in top refereed journals and conferences and many patents. He coauthored five books: On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits, Handbook on Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design, Temperature-Aware Computer Architecture, Arbitrary Modeling of TSVs for 3D Integrated Circuits, and Circuit Design Techniques for Microscale Energy Harvesting Systems. 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.
Ismail majored in engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He earned his first Master of Science degree in electronics from Cairo University. He then moved to the University of Rochester in the United States where he obtained his second Master of Science degree in VLSI circuit design in addition to his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Ismail has received several awards such as the U.S. National Science Foundation Career Award, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Outstanding Author Award, Best Teacher Award at Northwestern University, and many other best teaching awards and best paper awards.
- Y. I. Ismail and E. G. Friedman, “Effects of Inductance on the Propagation Delay and Repeater Insertion in VLSI Circuits,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 195 – 206, April 2000. (IEEE CAS Outstanding Author Award).
- Y. I. Ismail, E. G. Friedman, and J. L. Neves, “Equivalent Elmore Delay for RLC Trees,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 83-97, January 2000.
- Y. I. Ismail, "Improved Model Order Reduction by Using Spacial Information in Moments," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 900-908, October 2003.
- Long, J.; Ku, J. C.; Ogrenci Memik, S.; Ismail, Y.; “SACTA: A Self-Adjusting Clock Tree Architecture for Adapting to Thermal-Induced Delay Variation,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI), vol. 18, no. 9, August 2010, pp. 1323-1336.
- Yehya H. Ghallab and Yehea Ismail” CMOS Based Lab-on-a-chip: Applications, Challenges and Future Trends”, published at IEEE Circuit and Systems Magazine, pp. 27-47, Q2 issue, June 2014.
I joined Zewail City because I share the same vision as Dr. Zewail: that education is the key for improving Egypt's situation. Dr. Zewail is one of the few people who can lead such an undertaking in a credible way.