• Professor, Department of ECE, University of New Mexico, NM                                                   2020–present
• Associate Professor, Department of ECE, University of New Mexico, NM                                  2012–2020
• Visiting Professor, Department of EE, Universidad de Concepción, Chile                                     Fall 2016
• Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, University of New Mexico, NM                                   2006–2012
• Senior Research Engineer, DSM Solutions Inc., Los Gatos, Calif.                                                 2006–2009
• Senior Research Engineer, LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, Calif.                                              2001–2006
• Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia                                       1996–2001

   
        °   Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (Sept. 1996–March 2001)
            Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Overall GPA of 4.0
            Dissertation: Global Interconnect Modeling for a Gigascale System-on-a-Chip (GSoC)
 

        °    Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (June 1992–June 1994)
             M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Overall GPA of 3.8
             Thesis: An Analog High Frequency CMOS Monolithic Filter Using Sampled-Data Technique
 

        °    Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran (Sept. 1988–June 1992)
              B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with honors), Overall GPA of 3.6

 

 

• Analog and digital VLSI circuit designs
• High-performance and low-power VLSI designs
• Statistical modeling of VLSI systems
• Fault tolerance and yield enhancement design techniques
• Novel nano-electronic devices such CNFETs

 
   

• Author or co-author of 109 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings including IEEE transactions on VLSI systems, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, The IBM Journal of Research and Development, Symposium on VLSI Technology, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), and Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC)
• Inventor or co-inventor of procedures resulting in 20 patents
• Author of a book chapter and coauthor of a book
• Served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education from 2015 to 2019
• Served as industry liaison for LSI Logic corporation with Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) from 2001 to 2006
• Serving as reviewer of several articles submitted for publication in top-ranked journals and conferences such as Science Magazine, IEEE transactions on VLSI systems, and Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• Serving as technical program committee member of System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) since 2001
• Serving as technical program committee member of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) since 2009

 
   

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

   

• 2019, ECE Outstanding Teacher Award
• 2017, 2018, and 2019 STC.UNM Innovation Award
• 2017 ECE Lawton-Ellis Award
• 2014, ECE Outstanding Research Award
• 2009, ECE Outstanding Teacher Award
• 2003/2005, LSI Logic’s Best Author/Inventor Award
• 1997, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society

   

• Member, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE), 2010
• Chair, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE/EE), 2019
• Chair, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE/EE), 2018
• Member, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE), 2017
• Member, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE), 2010
• Chair, ECE Security Committee, Feb. 2008 – Present
• Member, ECE Computer Usage Committee (CUC), Oct. 2006 – 2010
• Member, ECE Faculty Search Committee (CompE), 2008
• Chair, Microelectronics Area, 2008 – Present
• Member, ECE CompE Faculty Committee, 2006 - 2015
• Member, ECE Graduate Committee, 2006-2007
• Member, ECE Undergraduate Committee, 2007-2012
• Member, ECE EYES Program Committee, 2006-2007

 
   

• ECE 638, Special Topic: VLSI Testing
• ECE 595, Advanced VLSI Design
• ECE 520/424, VLSI Design
• ECE 523/421, Analog Electronics
• ECE 321L, Electronics I
• ECE 203, Circuit Analysis I

 
   

• Ph.D. students: Nishchay Sule, Josh Trujillo, Jorge Canales Verdial, Zahra Abedi (co-advise), and Jonathan Milton (co-advise)
• M.S. students: Ricardo Del Toro
  

   

• Ph.D. students: Rogerio Cugler Fiorante, Ali Arabi Shahi, Rakesh Mahto, Javad Ghasemi, Mohammad Uzzal, Amir Shirkhorshidian
• M.S. students (with Thesis): Rani A. Ghaida, Aahlad Mallajosyula, Jason Hamlet, Cameron Stark, Vallabh Srikanth Devarapalli, Naveen Nischal Purushotham, Anahita Khoshakhlagh, Manoj Kumar Ramalingam Rajasekaran, Jiawei Xu, Thomas LeBoeuf, Matthew Briggs, Preyom Dey, Amanda Bonnie, and Abdelrahman Elshafiey