Jim Haslett - A Brief Biography

JAMES HASLETT holds the position of “University Professor”, and is also a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has been an academic staff member at the University of Calgary for the past 39 years, and was the Head of the department from 1986-1997.

Dr. Haslett is currently the Director of the iCORE-funded Advanced Technology Information Processing Systems (ATIPS) Lab at the University of Calgary, and is also co-director of the Advanced Micro/nanosystems Integration Facility (AMIF) at the University. He held the TRLabs/iCORE/NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Wireless Communications from 2002 to 2007, building a team of researchers specializing in radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design for wireless communications applications. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and holds 12 patents, many of which have been licensed to industry. He has graduated over 40 MSc and PhD students during his career.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He and his students have won numerous national and international awards for their research work. Dr. Haslett is currently a member of the Editorial Review Committees of five IEEE Transactions, is a member of several technical and executive committees of international IEEE Conferences, and is also a member of the provincial iCORE internal review committee which establishes research chair programs in Alberta.