Roman Genov received the B.S. degree (highest honors) in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, NY in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electronics Group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Genov held engineering positions at Atmel Corporation, Columbia, MD in 1995 and Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY in 1996. He was a visiting researcher in the Robot Learning Group at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in 1998 and in the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1999. His research interests include analog and digital VLSI circuits, systems and algorithms for parallel signal processing and adaptive computation with application to pattern recognition, focal-plane imaging, autonomous system design, and low-power instrumentation.

Dr. Genov is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He received a Best Presentation Award at IEEE IJCNN'2000 and a Student Paper Contest Award at IEEE MWSCAS'2000.