BIOGRAPHY
Mohamad Sawan is the Chair Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, and Emeritus Professor in Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. He is the founder and director of the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advances-on-Chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech) in Westlake University, and of the Polystim Neurotech Lab in Polytechnique Montreal. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He is Co-Founder, Associate Editor, and was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2016-2019). He is the founder of the flagship IEEE International NEWCAS conference and co-founder of the International IEEE-BioCAS and IEEE-AICAS Conferences. He was General Chair hosting both the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and the 2020 IEEE International Medicine, Biology, and Engineering Conference (EMBC). He was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices (2001-2015) and was leading the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ), Canada (1999-2018). Dr. Sawan published more than 1000 peer-reviewed papers, one Handbook, three books, 13 book chapters, 12 patents, and 20 other patents are pending.
Dr. Sawan served over 2 terms as the CASS’s Board of Governors (2013-2018), founded, co-founded and Chaired the Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Technical Committee, and Chaired the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee, founded, co-founded NEWCAS, BioCAS, and ICECS conferences. He Chaired the Distinguished Lecture Program (2011-13) and served as a distinguished Lecturer for three consecutive years. In addition, he served in the Steering Committees of all the CASS Flagship conferences. He served within the Conference Division Committee, the Financial Division Committee, and the Publications Division Committee. He served TCAS-II as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief (DEIC) and contributed as Guest Editor of several Special Issues of CASS’s Journals. He led the organization of 2 editions of the CASS Forum on Emerging and Selected Topics. He hosted the IEEE-International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’16) in Montreal. He received several awards, which include the Barbara Turnbull Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),the J.A. Bombardier and Jacques-Rousseau Awards from the ACFAS, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the Medal of Merit from the President of Lebanon, the Shanghai International Collaboration Award, the Chinese Government Friendship Award, and the Hangzhou Outstanding Talent Award. Dr. Sawan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sciences of Canada (FRSC), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institutes of Canada, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and an “Officer” of the National Order of Quebec.