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Dr. Peter Jamieson completed his doctorate and masters studies at the University of Toronto and his bachelor’s degree at the University of Ottawa, all in the field of Computer Engineering.

Before joining ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he was a research associate at Imperial College in London, U.K in a partnership with Nokia.

Throughout these positions, Dr. Jamieson researched an array of topics including parallel systems, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture and computer aided design (CAD), and low-power mobile computing.

He helped develop an open-source tool called Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) that helps FPGA researchers and industrial partners such as Motorola and Toyota evaluate ideas related to FPGAs. Dr. Jamieson is the creator of another open-source tool Odin II, which is a Verilog synthesis tool fundamental to the VTR flow.

In 2009, Dr. Jamieson joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and has focuses his research efforts in a number of synergistic directions. First, he continues his contributions in FPGA research, collaborating with other researchers around the world. In 2017-18, he joined researchers at Boston University to look into FPGAs as part of cloud computing. His focus was on how OpenCL can help design hardware for cloud applications, and he implemented a number of agent-based simulation applications in high performance computing (HPC) domain.

Recently, his research focus is on Genetic Algorithms for solving optimization problems, accelerating audio encoders on FPGAs, improving overlay architectures implemented on top of FPGAs, and leveraging AI within each of these domains.

Finally, Dr. Jamieson’s research focuses on engineering education and serious games. He investigates how various technologies as related to computer engineering can impact higher education. For example, he has investigated how Arduino and RaspberryPi boards are used in undergraduate education, and how graph theory can be applied to providing evidence of learning in mind maps. He created a game, called verilogTown, that allows players to solve city traffic flow problems by writing the Verilog hardware control for the traffic lights.