1. Hani Esmaeelzadeh
University of California, Los Angeles
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Ph.D. Student
(Updated on 6/16/2016)
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Hani Esmaeelzadeh
Education
2014-2019 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Circuits and Embedded Systems)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
GPA: 4/4
2011-2013 M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics)
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
GPA: 17.48/20 (3.65/4)
2007-2011 B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics)
K.N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Tehran, Iran
GPA: 18.22/20 (3.9/4)
Research Interests
- RFICs and Wireless Transceivers
- Analog and Mixed-Mode Circuits Design
- Microwave and Millimeter-Wave IC Design
- Data Converter Circuit Design
Research Experiences
2014-Present Graduate Student Researcher in University of California, Los Angeles:
- Conducting research on CMOS Oscillators, Phase-Locked Loops, and Synthesizers.
2011-2014 Research Assistant in AICDL (Advanced Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory), Sharif University of Technology:
- Low-Power Reconfigurable Pipeline ADC for Multi-Standard Communication.
- Design of a power efficient pipeline ADC employing a novel capacitor sharing technique.
2010-2011 Research Assistant in Microelectronic Circuit Laboratory, KNTU:
- Design and Implementation of active RFID tag and reader in 2.4-GHz band.
Publications
- Esmaeelzadeh H., Sharifkhani M., "A Low-Power 10-bit 40-MS/s Pipeline ADC Using Extended Capacitor Sharing,"
Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’14).
Honors and Awards
- Broadcom Foundation Fellowship 2016.
- MediaTek Fellowship -Finalist 2015 and 2016.
- UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship 2014.
- Selected as one of the exceptional talented undergraduate students, awarded by the president of KNTU.
- Selected as one of the top five electrical engineering students of KNTU.
- Ranked 1st among students in the total high school era.
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2. Selected Projects
2013 Design and Simulation of a Reconfigurable Pipeline ADC targeting a variety of communication standards such as
WiFi, LTE, Wimax, and WCDMA in 90-nm CMOS technology, M.Sc. Thesis.
2013 Design and Simulation of a power-efficient 10-bit 40-MS/s pipeline ADC employing a proposed capacitor sharing
technique in 90-nm CMOS technology
2012 Design and Simulation of a complete GSM transceiver (LNA, Mixer, Oscillator, frequency synthesizer, base-
band amplifiers, active filters, and Class-E power amplifier) in 0.18-µm CMOS technology, Course Project for
"RFIC Design".
2012 Design and Layout of a 32-bit multiplier (a complete ASIC design flow written in Verilog, synthesized in Synopsys
Design Vision, and placed & routed in SoC Encounter), Course Project for "VLSI Systems Design".
2011 Design and Simulation of one-stage and two-stage CMOS amplifiers, Course Project for "CMOS IC Design".
2011 Design and Layout of a 2.4-GHz LC Oscillator in 0.18-µm CMOS technology, Course Project for "IC-CAD".
2011 Design and Implementation of an active RFID tag and reader, B.Sc. Thesis.
2011 Design and implementation of various FIR and IIR digital filters, Course Project for "Automated Digital Circuit
Design".
2011 Design and Implementation of ATmega-32 AVR microcontroller in VHDL on Xilinx Virtex4 FPGA, Course Project for
"Automated Digital Circuit Design".
2010 Design and Implementation of an ASIC Processor on FPGA, Course Project for "Computer Architecture Lab".
2009 Design and Discrete Implementation of an AM/FM radio receiver, Course Project for "Communication Circuits".
Relevant Graduate Courses
Spring 2016 Theory and Design of Digital Filters
Analog Microsystem Design
Winter 2016 Noise and Distortion in Circuits
Winter 2015 Analysis and Design of RF Circuits and Systems
Fall 2014 Analog Integrated Circuit Design
Spring 2013 Neural Modeling
Fall 2012 Optical Integrated Circuits
Semiconductor Technology
Spring 2012 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Data Convertors
VLSI Systems Design
Fall 2011 Design of CMOS Integrated Circuits
Digital Electronics
IC Computer-Aided Design Lab
Computer and Software Skills
Circuit
CAD-Tools
CADENCE (Spectre, Composer Schematic, SpectreVerilog, Virtuoso Layout Editor, and Calibre), ADS, HSPICE,
Altium Designer, PSPICE
Programming C, Assembly, Matlab
HDL Tools Xilinx ISE (VHDL & Verilog), Modelsim
Auxiliary
Tools
Microsoft Office, Latex programs (TeXwork, WinEdit)
Selected Certificates
- "Writing Scientific Journal Articles," Conferred by Springer and Edanz.
- "mm-Wave and THz Theory and Applications," conducted by Prof. Ehsan Afshari, Cornell University, Sharif
Conference On Future Electronics, 5-7 March 2013.
- "Teaching English As a Foreign Language," Conferred by KishAir Cultural and Educational Institute.
* Additional Information will be provided upon request.
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