the B.Sc. degree from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran,
in 1990, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada,
in 1994 and 1999, respectively, all in electrical and
computer engineering.
In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, where
he is currently a Professor. His research interests are
in the areas of analog and digital integrated circuits,
high-speed signaling, and VLSI memory design. He
currently supervises two active research groups in the areas of high-speed signaling and VLSI memories. He has collaborated with industry on various VLSI
design research in the past few years, including work with Nortel and Mosaid,
Canada, and with Fujitsu Labs of Japan and America. He spent his 2005–2006
research sabbatical year with Fujitsu Labs of Japan and Fujitsu Labs of America.
Dr. Sheikholeslami served on the Memory Subcommittee of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2001 to 2004, and on
the Technology Directions Subcommittee of the same conference from 2002
to 2005. He currently serves on the Wireline Subcommittee of ISSCC and on
the executive committee of the same conference. He presented a tutorial on
ferroelectric memory design at ISSCC 2002 and a tutorial on high-speed signaling at ISSCC 2008. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I: REGULAR PAPERS. He was the program chair
for the 34th IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL
2004) held in Toronto, Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in the
province of Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Sheikholeslami has received the Best Professor of the Year Award four
times (in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2007) by the popular vote of the undergraduate
students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Toronto. He received the 2005–2006 Early Career Teaching Award and the
2010 Faculty Teaching Award, both from the Faculty of Applied Science and
Engineering at the University of Toronto, in “Recognition of Superb Accomplishment in Teaching”.
Behrooz Abiri is the Chief Technology Officer of GuRu Inc. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree from Caltech. He also received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and the M.S. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. His research interests are incorporating circuit design techniques in silicon photonics, RF and high-speed interconnect circuits.
Mr. Abiri was awarded the Edward S. Rogers scholarship, Caltech PhD Fellowship, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award and Solid State Circuits Society Pre-doctroal Achievement Award. He is also the Gold Medal winner of the 16th Physics Olympiad, South Korea.