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Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
About Mohamed Elmasry
- Mohamed Elmasry (Arabic: ???? ???????) (born December 24, 1943) is a Canadian engineering professor, imam, and has been a leader in the Canadian Muslim community.
- He was born in Cairo, Egypt and received his Bachelor of Science in 1965 from Cairo University.
- He continued his studies in Canada earning masters and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa in 1970 and 1974.
- He has worked in the area of digital integrated microchip design for over four decades. From 1965 to 1968, Elmasry worked for Cairo University and from 1972 to 1974 for Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Since 1974, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario where he is a founding Director of the VLSI (Microchip) Research Group. As a spokesperson for Muslim causes through the Canadian Islamic Congress, he has been a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail.
- His remarks, especially those concerning the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, have drawn significant attention in the Canadian media.
- He has accused some of his opponents of being anti-Islam. Elmasry has authored and co-authored more than 500 research papers and 16 books on integrated circuit design and design automation, as well as having several patents to his credit.
- He has edited the following books for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Digital MOS Integrated Circuits (1981); Digital VLSI Systems (1985), Digital MOS Integrated Circuits II (1991) and Analysis and Design of BiCMOS Integrated Circuits (1993).
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