Stephen Brown received the Ph.D and M.A.Sc degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and his B.A.Sc
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
He joined the University of Toronto faculty in 1992, where he is
a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering. He is also the Director of the
University Program
at the Intel Programmable Solutions Group (formerly the Altera Toronto
Technology Centre), a world-leading research and development site for CAD software and FPGA architectures.
His research interests include field-programmable VLSI technology,
CAD algorithms, and computer architecture. He is a principal investigator
in the LegUp
project, which provides an open-source high-level synthesis
framework.
He won the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Councils 1992 Doctoral Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Canada.
He has won multiple awards for excellence in teaching electrical
engineering, computer engineering, and computer science courses. He is
a coauthor of more than 100 scientific research papers and three textbooks:
Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design
,
Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design , and
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays .