HASSAN MOSTAFA (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (Hons.) in electronics engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011. He is currently working for Synopsys as a Staff Design Engineer since Oct. 2023 with main focus on SERDES Tx blocks such as DAC and Clock Drivers.

He is a former Associate Professor with the Nanotechnology and Nano-Electronics Program, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt, on leave from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Cairo University. He was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. His postdoctoral work includes the design of the next generation FPGA in collaboration with Fujitsu Research Labs, Japan/USA. He has authored/coauthored over 250 papers in international journals and conferences and he is the author/coauthor of five published books. His research interests include neuro-morphic computing, the IoT hardware security, software defined radio, reconfigurable low power systems, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), low-power circuits, sub-threshold logic, variation-tolerant design, soft error tolerant design, statistical design methodologies, next generation FPGA, spintronics, memristors, energy harvesting, MEMS/NEMS, power management, and opto-electronics.

Dr. Mostafa has been a member of the IEEE Technical Committee of VLSI Systems and Applications (TC-VSA), since 2017. In addition, he was an associate editor and a guest editor of several journals and also he has been the conference technical chair and the track chair of various conferences, since 2015. He was a recipient of the University of Toronto Research Associate Scholarship, in 2012, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship, in 2011, the Waterloo Institute of Nano-technology (WIN) Nano-Fellowship Research Excellence Award, in 2010, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), in 2009, and the University of Waterloo SandFord Fleming TA Excellence Award, in 2008.