Dr. Majid Ahmadi has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Windsor 1980, currently a University Professor and Director of the Research Center for Integrated Microsystems.
His research interests include digital signal processing, machine vision, pattern recognition, neural network architectures and VLSI implementation as well as computer arithmetic. He has co-authored the book, Digital Filtering in 1-D and 2- Dimensions; Design and Applications (New York: Plennum 1989) and has published more than 400 articles in the above areas.
Dr. Ahmadi is the regional editor for the journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers and the Associate Editor for the Pattern Recognition journal. He was the IEEE-CAS representative on the Neural Network Council and the Chair of the IEEE-CAS Neural Systems Application Technical Committee. He was the recipient of an Honorable Mention award from the editorial Board of the Pattern Recognition journal in 1992 and received the Distinctive Contributed Paper award from Multiple-Valued Logic Conference Technical Committee and the IEEE Computer Society in 1999. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of IET (UK).
Dr. Ahmadi received the BSc degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University (formerly known as Arya Mehr University), Tehran, Iran, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College of London University in 1971 and 1977 respectively.