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Farid Najm, vice-chair of the University of Toronto's ECS department, received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). After working at Texas Instruments until 1992, Najm returned to UIUC to serve as a professor. His research interests include CAD for integrated circuits, with an emphasis on circuit-level issues related to power dissipation, timing, and reliability. Najm, a fellow of the IEEE, received the IEEE Transactions on CAD Best Paper Award, the NSF Research Initiation Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He is associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on CAD and was associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI. 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. | 