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Leonard MacEachern

HomeAcademic introduction, current work, contact details, and principal destinations.
AboutBiography, research perspective, appointments, education, and short biography.
Career & LeadershipCareer narrative, appointments, academic leadership, institutional work, and research renewal.
ContactGraduate-study, media, research, industry, and expert enquiries.

Research

Programs and detailed work

Research overviewCurrent priorities, research outlook, and a career-spanning visual history.
High-Speed Optical and Electrical InterconnectsLinks, front ends, equalization, timing, SerDes, CDR, microring models, and predistortion.
Analog Circuits and Data ConversionADCs, calibration, sampling, timing, and adaptive analog interfaces.
- AI-Assisted VCO-ADC Calibration and Profile ValidationCalibration profiles, validation loops, physical implementation, and engineer-in-the-loop design.
Hardware for Next-Generation AINeuromorphic, spiking, binarized, ternary, quantized, FPGA, and ASIC hardware.
- Projection-Aware Approximation for Efficient AI AcceleratorsOutput-aware GELU approximation, candidate selection, and routed implementation evidence.
Detector Electronics and Radiation-Aware CMOSMALTA front ends, asynchronous MAPS readout, surrogate models, timing, and radiation-aware design.
- MALTA2 Boundary-Loss Surrogate for Asynchronous MAPS ReadoutCharge sharing, pixel grouping, address encoding, and tracking-loss modelling.
Theoretical FoundationsQuantization, synchronization, clocks, spectra, graphs, and application-level limits.
Emerging Research DirectionsHierarchical intelligence, observable-aware surrogates, AI-assisted design, telemetry, and stochastic processes.
- Hierarchical In-Circuit Intelligence for Optical TransceiversSupervisory adaptation, link observables, actuator assignment, and fast local control.

Scholarly record

Work and supervision

Publications and PatentsSelected work and the complete normalized scholarly record.
Students and SupervisionCurrent students, the complete graduate register, supervised theses, research lineages, and training approach.

Teaching and practice

Education and collaboration

TeachingCourse descriptions, the complete course record, invited presentations, curriculum, capstones, and educational initiatives.
Industry, Research and ConsultingCollaborative research, consulting, expert work, and technical implementation capabilities.
- Ways to work togetherCollaborative research, consulting, technical assistance, and expert work.
- Technical areas for discussionInterfaces, sensing, PCB, ASIC, FPGA, algorithms, and AI-assisted design flows.

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Supporting pages

News and Current ActivityDated research, teaching, student, and departmental developments.
DocumentsBiography, photograph, and printable academic overviews.

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Academic introduction and the main pathways into the site.

AboutBiography, research perspective, appointments, and education.
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Research

Current priorities and the historical development of the research program.

High-Speed Optical and Electrical InterconnectsOptical and copper links, front ends, equalization, timing, and correction.
Analog Circuits and Data ConversionADCs, calibration, sampling, timing, and adaptive analog interfaces.
- AI-Assisted VCO-ADC CalibrationProfile validation, physical implementation, and engineer-in-the-loop design.
Hardware for Next-Generation AINeuromorphic, quantized, FPGA, and ASIC hardware.
- Projection-Aware ApproximationOutput-aware GELU approximation and routed implementation evidence.
Detector Electronics and Radiation-Aware CMOSMALTA front ends, MAPS readout, timing, and radiation-aware design.
- MALTA2 Boundary-Loss SurrogateCharge sharing, grouping, encoding, and tracking-loss modelling.
Theoretical FoundationsQuantization, synchronization, spectra, graph consistency, and performance limits.
Emerging Research DirectionsHierarchical intelligence, surrogates, design telemetry, and stochastic processes.
- Hierarchical Optical TransceiversSupervisory adaptation, observables, actuator assignment, and local control.

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Publications and Patents

Selected work, the complete catalogue, intellectual property, and scholarly profiles.

Selected workRepresentative publications and the contribution of each.
In-progress submissionsCurrent scholarly work in progress.
Publication catalogueSearchable books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers.
Patents and inventionsRepresentative intellectual-property record.
External scholarly recordsORCID, Google Scholar, and institutional publication profiles.

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Students

Current and former supervision, theses, collaborations, and project lineages.

Current graduate studentsCurrent and confirmed incoming students organized by research track.
Complete graduate supervision registerCurrent, completed, withdrawn, and discontinued programs.
Research lineagesConnections across optical interfaces, conversion, timing, and intelligent hardware.
Supervised thesesDegree, year, title, and available library record.
Supervision and training approachHow physical, circuit, digital, and application evidence are connected.
MOSAIC GroupDetailed group members, projects, and ongoing technical work.

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Teaching

Courses, curriculum development, design projects, and educational initiatives.

Teaching overviewIncreasing design responsibility across courses and projects.
Course descriptionsSelected undergraduate, graduate, capstone, and directed-study courses.
Complete recorded course listThe normalized teaching record with latest offering terms.
Recent invited presentationsTeaching, AI, and professional-practice presentations.
Curriculum and capstone lineagesProgram development and selected supervised design projects.
Educational initiativesPhotonics, FPGA, AI, and high-performance-computing learning infrastructure.

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Career & Leadership

Career narrative, appointments, sabbaticals, and academic leadership.

Career narrativeA first-person account of the academic and technical trajectory.
Appointments and academic leadershipAppointments, department leadership, and graduate-program leadership.
Program and institutional workCurriculum, facilities, committees, and shared educational capacity.
Research renewalSabbaticals and forward-looking technical study.

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Industry

Collaborative research, consulting, expert work, and technical practice.

Ways to work togetherCollaborative research, consulting, technical assistance, and expert work.
Technical areas for discussionInterfaces, sensing, PCB, ASIC, FPGA, algorithms, and AI-assisted design flows.
Representative patentsIntellectual-property work and selected inventions.

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Contact

Guidance for graduate-study, media, research, industry, and expert enquiries.

Graduate-study enquiriesInformation prospective students should provide.
Media enquiriesSubject, audience, deadline, format, and intended attribution.
Mailing addressDepartment of Electronics, Carleton University.
Institutional emailleonard.maceachern@carleton.ca

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