Farid N. Najm has a Ph.D. degree (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He worked at Texas Instruments until 1992, then was a professor at UIUC until 1999, when he joined the ECE Department at the University of Toronto, where he is now Professor, having sered as Department Chair from 2009-2019. Dr. Najm received the IEEE Transactions on CAD Best Paper Award in 1992, the NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993, and the NSF CAREER Award in 1996. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on CAD 2001-2009 and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI 1997-2002. He has served as General Chairman for the ISLPED-99 conference and as Technical Program Co-Chairman for ISLPED-98. He has also served on the technical committees of ICCAD, DAC, CICC, ISLPED, and ISQED. His research is on CAD for integrated circuits, with an emphasis on circuit level issues related to power dissipation, timing, and reliability. Dr. Najm is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
