Omar M. Ramahi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
He received the BS degrees in Mathematics and
Electrical and Computer Engineering (summa cum
laude) from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR,
and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He held visiting fellowship
position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign and then worked at Digital Equipment
Corporation (presently, HP), where he was a member
of the alpha server product development group. In
2000, he joined the faculty of the James Clark School of Engineering at
the University of Maryland at College Park as an Assistant Professor and
later as a tenured Associate Professor. At Maryland he was also a faculty
member of the CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center. Presently,
he is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
and holds the NSERC/RIM Industrial Research Associate Chair, University of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He holds cross appointments with the Department
of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and the Department of Physics
and Astronomy. He has authored and co-authored over 240 journal and
conference papers. He is a co-author of the book EMI/EMC Computational
Modeling Handbook, 2nd Ed. (Springer-Verlag, 2001). Presently, he serves as
an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging and
as the IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Ramahi served as a
consultant to several companies and was a co-founder of EMS-PLUS, LLC
and Applied Electromagnetic Technology, LLC
