John Long - 2022/2023

John Long - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor John Long has made exceptional contributions to mentoring graduate students, teaching, and research in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His stellar record of graduate student supervision, 62 Master’s and 26 PhD students graduated, speaks for itself. Dr. Long has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal papers and 136 conference publications, most of which were co-authored with his graduate students. He has also 7 US patents on his name. In 2015 Dr. Long was inducted as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions towards the development of on-chip and silicon radio-frequency integrated circuits. He also served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE RFIC Virtual Journal for 8 years. Dr. Long’s dedication to teaching and supervision of graduate students is highly regarded by students and colleagues. He has always promoted his graduate students to be independent and encouraged a culture of student-centric research ownership. Dr. Long’s former students hold high positions in industry and academia, and many of them attribute their success to the excellent training and guidance they received from him. His mentoring and support of graduate students extend well past their graduation. As one former student put it, “..I never lost contact with him..”.  The University of Waterloo is fortunate to have Professor John Long as a mentor, researcher, and educator in the Faculty of Engineering.