Education
Ph.D. Electrical Eng. - University of Toronto
- 2019 - Current
MASc. Electrical Eng. - University of Toronto
- Sept 2016 - 2019
- • Research Area: CMOS Optical Receiver Circuits
Major Technical Courses
- ECE 1352: Analog Circuit Design I
- • MOS Modelling, MOS Op-amps, Feedback compensation, Common Mode Feedback, Noise Analysis, Biasing, Oscillators, PLL and Comparators.
- ECE 1388: VLSI Design Methodology
- • MOS devices, Digital circuits, Layout, Logical Effort, Wire Engineering, Packaging, Digital Flow, Mixed-Signal Simulation Techniques
- • Final Group Project: Time-Interleaved SAR ADC
- ECE 1352: Sel. topics on Circuits and Systems: Wireless RF Integrated Circuits Design
- • MOS Modelling, MOS Op-amps, Feedback compensation, Common Mode Feedback, Noise Analysis, Biasing, Oscillators, PLL and Comparators.
- ECE 1365: High Frequency Integrated Circuits
- • RF and mm-wave integrated circuits for wireless and fiber optics. Device-circuit topologies, Layout optimization, noise, matching, stability and isolation techniques.
- • Projects: CMOS/BiCMOS device High-Frequency characterization, Power Amplifier, Monolithic Inductor design and modelling, Tuned LNA, VCO
- ECE 1392: Integrated Circuits for Digital Communications
- • Channel Equalization, Clock and Data Recovery, coding and modulation schemes.
BASc. Electrical Engineering (Co-op, Hons.) - University of Waterloo
Sept 2011 - June 2016Major Technical Courses
- ECE 444: Integrated Analog Circuits
- • MOS/Bipolar Op-amps, feedback compensation, stability, active loads, Active Filters
- ECE 477: Photonics Devices and Systems
- • Optical Waveguides, Optical Solitons, photonic sources and transmitters, lasers, transceivers, photonic Network
- ECE 404: Geometrical and Physical Optics
- • Electromagnetic waves and the nature of light.
• Geometrical optics, aberrations. Physical Optics: interference, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, polarization
- ECE 637: Digital Integrated Circuits (Graduate course)
- • CMOS Arithmetic Circuits; Detail MOS models and second order effects, miller capacitances
• Synchronizers and arbiters; Single-phase and two-phase clocking, Candence simulations, montecarlo, interconnect
- ECE 445: Integrated Digital Electronics
- • CMOS inverter, combinational CMOS circuit design - logic styles for low power, logical effort in high performance circuits
• Interconnect parasitic, clocking and timing considerations in digital VLSIs, sequential CMOS circuit design - flip-flops, Candence simulations
• Labs: 8-input AND gate, TSPC flip-flop design and timing specifications
- ECE 463: Power Electronic Converters
- • Power conditioning, waveform quality, input and output filter design, switching characteristics
• Power losses of power semiconductor devices, analysis, simulations, design, control and applications of power electronic converters
• Labs: Diode Rectifiers, Thyristors converter, DC-DC/AC-DC with IGBT, DC motor speed control with choppers,
- ECE 473: RF and Microwave Circuits
- • Scattering matrix, multiport RF networks, RF planar technology, lumped and distributed microstrip circuits
• Microwave couplers, Hybrids, resonators, filters, Low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), RF oscillators and mixers, CAD tools for RF
Certification
NI Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer - 2015
Expertise
Hardware:
• Experience with Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Laboratories
• Ocassionally worked in clean room facility
• Solid PCB design and soldering skills
Instruments:
• High-end Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers, VNA, Current Probes, Power Supplies, Pattern Generators, Frequency Counters, DMMs,
• Spectrometers, Solar Simulators, Tunable Light Sources and precision Optical stages/apertures
Communication Protocols:
• I2C, USB, SPI, JTAG, GPIB
Software:
EE software:
• Cadence Virtuoso (Schematics/Layout), Cadence Allegro/Orcad, Ltspice, HSpice, ADS, Labview, Qurtus, Altium, Eagle, Hyperlynx power-integrity
Programming and Web:
• java, c#, c, c++, matlab, python, vhdl, verilog, assembly, .net, html, css
Publishing Tools:
• Latex, MS office suit, inkscape