M. Jamal Deen was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, in 1978, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, in 1982 and 1985, respectively. From 1978 to 1980, he was an Instructor of physics with the University of Guyana, and from 1980 to 1983, he was a Research Assistant with CWRU. He was with Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, as a Research Engineer from 1983 to 1985 and an Assistant Professor from 1985 to 1986. In 1986, he joined the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, as an Assistant Professor, and from 1993 to 2002, he was a Full Professor. Since 1999, he has been a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. In July 2001, he was appointed Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, in the summer of 1986, and he spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scientist at Northern Telecom, Ottawa, during 1992–1993. He was a Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, in the summer of 1997 and a CNRS Directeur de Recherche with the Physics of Semiconductor Devices Laboratory, Grenoble, France, in the summer of 1998 and with the Université de Montpellier II, France, during 2002–2003. He has edited two research monographs and eight conference proceedings. He has also written 14 invited book chapters, published more that 340 peer-reviewed articles, and given more than 70 invited/keynote/plenary conference presentations. He is also the holder of six patents. His current research interests include microelectronics/nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.

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