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Nagi N. Mekhiel is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), where he teaches courses including Digital Systems, Microprocessors, Advanced Computer Architecture, and Parallel Computing. His office is located in the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at 245 Church St., Toronto.
Dr. Mekhiel received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Assiut University, Egypt (1973), M.A.Sc. from University of Toronto (1981), and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from McMaster University (1995). Prior to academia, he worked as a Biomedical Engineer at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children (1981-1987), Senior Hardware Engineer at Definicon Systems Corporation (1987-1990), and Senior Member of Technical Staff at Yarc System Corporation (1996-1998).
His research focuses on solving fundamental computer industry challenges, particularly the processor/memory speed gap and scalability of parallel processors. His work spans computer architecture, parallel processing, high-performance memory systems, VLSI, and performance evaluation. Mekhiel's research has been cited in patents by major tech companies including IBM, Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and others.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong trajectory toward quantum computing applications, orbital data processing architectures, and memory system innovations for big data applications. His work consistently addresses the processor/memory speed gap through novel architectural solutions, with increasing emphasis on quantum information representation and parallel time computing models.
- Intel Xeon+FPGA system access via Intel's Hardware Accelerator Research Program
- Senior Member of IEEE
Dr. Mekhiel has supervised numerous graduate students who have co-authored publications with him in areas including facial recognition systems, quantum computing implementations, and parallel processing architectures. His research has received industry support through patent licensing agreements with Intellectual Ventures US. He leads a research group focused on advanced computer architecture solutions, with current projects involving quantum bit encoding, reconfigurable memory systems, and orbital network architectures for scalable multi-core processing.
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