Academic Experiences:
- General Chair of 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 2013.
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (2010- now).
- Postdoctoral scientific researcher, Delft Univ. of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands (2008-2009)
- Design and implementation of ultra-low-power analog-to-digital converters for biomedical implantable devices
- Design and implementation of a 6-10 bit 1-200 kS/s SAR ADC
- Lecturing a graduate course
- Design of Nyquist-rate data converters
- Associate Professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (2010-now) (Assistant Professor (2004-2010))
- Head of Electrical Engineering Department (Jan.2010-now)
- Teaching Graduate Courses
- Design of CMOS analog integrated circuits
- Design of integrated data converters
- Advanced analog IC design
- Design of CMOS digital integrated circuits
- Teaching Under-Graduate Courses
- Electric Circuits-I
- Principles of Electronics-I
- Principles of Electronics-II
- Principles of Electronics-III
- Digital and Pulse Circuits
- Practical Electronics
- Physics of Semiconductor Devices
- VLSI Circuits
- Supervising PhD Dissertations:
- Low-Voltage High-Efficiency Analog Power Techniques
- Ultra-Low-Power A/D Converters for Biomedical Applications
- Analysis and Design of Biomedical Sensor-Interface Circuits
- Design for Reliability of Nano-Scale Digital Integrated Circuits
- Analysis and Design of Asynchronous A/D Converters
- Analysis and Design of High-Speed Successive-Approximation ADCs
- Design of Low-Power CMOS Image Sensors
- Supervising M.Sc. theses:
- Design of power-efficient level-translating circuits
- Design of power-efficient LDO regulators
- Design of sensor-interface circuits for resistive pressure sensor arrays
- Design of active pixel image sensors
- Design of integrated neural stimulators
- Low-power design of high-speed flash A/D converters
- Design of biomedical sensor interface circuits
- Design of signal-specific successive-approximation ADCs
- Design of clock-less (asynchronous) A/D converters
- Low-power design of algorithmic A/D converters
- Low-power design of integrating A/D converters
- Mismatch/nonlinearity-insensitive pipelined A/D converters
- Ultra-low-power design of digital integrated circuits
- High-speed low-voltage D/A converters
- Background calibration of high-resolution A/D converters
- Design of MOSFET-only A/D converters
- Design of low-voltage high-resolution switched-opamp pipelined A/D converters
- Design of wide-band continuous-time Sigma-Delta modulators
- Low-power design of very-low-voltage high-speed high-resolution A/D converters
- Optimization of low-voltage high-speed high-dynamic-range Gm-C filters for wireless applications
- Supervising BSc projects:
- Design and implementation of a smart control system for home heating system
- Design and implementation of a solar tracker system
- Systematic design for optimization of pipelined A/D converters
- Developing CAD tools for high-performance analog integrated circuits
- Design of MOSFET-only switched-capacitor and switched-opamp filters
- Design of high-performance ultra-low-voltage comparators
- Design of high-performance LDOs
- Design and implementation of a C-V analyzer
- Design and implementation of a simple RF-ID system
- Design and implementation of road markers using solar cells
- Advisor of FUM IEEE Student Branch (2009-2011)
- Head of Electronics-Engineering Group (Sept.2004-Sept. 2006)
- Founder and Director of Integrated Systems Lab. (Jan 2005-Jan 2008)
- Technical reviewer of:
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II
- Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, (Springer)
- Integration, the VLSI Journal, (Elsevier)
- IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
- IEEE Intl. Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
- IEEE Intl. Conference on VLSI Design
- Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE)