Professor Elmasry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), a Fellow of
the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), and a Fellow of the International
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Elmasry was selected as Canada’s top engineering professor of the year 2000
by Canadian Business. He is also listed in several editions of Who’s Who as one
of the world top experts in digital integrated circuits. He was the winner of the
$50,000 Canadian national award in 1994 for his contributions to digital microchip
design.
Since 1974, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada where he is now a Professor
Emeritus.
He has authored or co-authored more than 500 research papers and 16 books on
integrated circuit design and design automation.
At the University of Waterloo, Dr. Elmasry is also a founding member of the
Middle East Studies and founding co-ordinator of the Muslim Study Group. He is
active in the local and national Canadian Muslim community, having served as Program
Chair for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Canadian Conference, and
President of the Kitchener-Waterloo Islamic Association. Dr. Elmasry is also founding
president and the current chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Islamic
Congress (CIC).
Dr. Elmasry authored the bestseller, "1,000 Questions on Islam" (available in both
Arabic and English), "Islamic Spirituality", “Spiritual Fitness For Life”,
“Passion for Justice”, “The Qur’an: 365 Selections For Daily Reading” and
“Divine Love”. He has served as a member of the Canadian and the Ontario Multifaith
Committee and has presented numerous public lectures on issues in Islam and Islamic
culture to churches, schools, universities and social organizations.
He has been honoured with the Volunteer Service Award by the Ontario Interfaith
Council on Spiritual and Religious Care and Chaplaincy Services, and by the Ontario
Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
He has been invited to lecture on Islam, as well as on Microelectronics, in more
than 40 countries -- including China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
Russia, the former USSR, the Arab world, Europe, United States and Canada.
Professor Elmasry’s editorials on religious, national and international issues are
regularly featured in leading Canadian newspapers, including the Globe and Mail,
Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, the Egyptian Gazette as well as in
local-regional dailies such as the K-W Record. He has been a frequent guest on TV
and radio shows in Canada, Egypt, the UK, Australia and Kuwait.
STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Professor Mohamed Elmasry of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo who was inducted as a fellow in the prestigious Royal Society of Canada in Ottawa on November 20, 1998.
Professor Elmasry was invited to join this elite group due to his invention, development and his help in the industry introduction of several new technologies influencing the growth of microelectronics in Canada and abroad.
His research has resulted in five distinct generations of integrated circuit designs, and his revolutionary work on low-energy logic circuits some 20 years ago is now finding wide application in portable telecommunications.
Professor Elmasry has done pioneering work in artificial neural network chip design, self-learning chips, speech recognition systems, vocoders and echo cancellation. He holds nine patents and is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 250 scientific publications.
I congratulate Professor Elmasry on his new fellowship and wish him well in the future.
