[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Deen_Jamal.jpg” caption=”Jamal Deen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at McMaster and Canada Research Chair in Information Technology. File photo.”]Jamal Deen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at McMaster and Canada Research Chair in Information Technology, has been awarded the prestigious Thomas W. Eadie Medal by the Royal Society of Canada.

The Thomas W. Eadie Medal is awarded in recognition of major contributions to engineering or applied science, with preference given to those having an impact on communications, in particular the development of the Internet.

Deen's citation from the Royal Society of Canada reads, “Dr. Deen is a major contributor and world leader in microelectronics/ nanoelectronics and optoelectronics and has made significant contributions to communication systems hardware. He is the world's foremost authority in the modeling and noise of electronic and optoelectronic devices, particularly silicon transistors and high-speed photodetectors for application in wireless communication circuits and optical communication receivers.”

Deen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

He holds numerous additional awards and distinctions. Most recently, he returned from Germany where he conducted research on the modeling of nanoscale semiconductor devices and their applications to millimetre and microwave applications as a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

An awards banquet will be held by The Royal Society of Canada on November 15, 2008 at which time Deen will be presented with his award along with 11 other medal and award recipients. Newly elected fellows are also inducted to the Royal Society of Canada at the ceremony.