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Glenn E. R. Cowan received the B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. During his graduate studies, he was an Intern with Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA. In 2005, he joined the Communications Technology Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research activities included CMOS circuits for high-speed communication, design for manufacturability, and circuits for the measurement

of process variability. His current research activities include low-power mixed signal circuits for electrical and optical links, and mixed-signal computation.

At Columbia, he was a recipient of the Analog Device’s Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2003. He was a recipient of the Columbia’s Eliahu I.

Jury Award for outstanding achievement by a graduate student in the areas of systems, communications, or signal processing in 2005.