Shahriar Shahramian

Ba.A.Sc (1999-2003), Ma.A.Sc (2003-2004), Ph.D. (2004-Present)

 

 

 

 

 

Shahriar Shahramian (SM ’06 – ) received his B.A.Sc. (Hons) degree in computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada in 2003. He enrolled in the masters program in electrical engineering at University of Toronto in 2003 and transferred to the Ph.D. program in 2004. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Tony Chan Carusone and Professor Sorin P. Voinigescu. Shahriar’s research interests include the design of high-speed and mm-wave integrated circuits with focus on high speed A/D converters, wireline and wireless transceivers. He also completed an internship program at Alcatel-Lucent in 2008 where he worked on E-Band wireless transceivers.

 

Shahriar received the Aloha Award in recognition of his B.A.Sc. thesis. He was also the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 2003 and University of Toronto Fellowship from 2004-2006. He won the best paper award at the Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium in 2005. He has also received six teaching awards between the years 2005-2008 at University of Toronto.

 

Shahriar has been the lab manager of University of Toronto’s High Speed Integrated System’s Laboratory since 2004. He is responsible for training new graduate students in using mm-wave testing equipments as well as maintaining the state of the art testing equipment.

 

Shahriar’s expected graduation from the Ph.D. program is in early fall of 2009.

 

 

 

Shahriar Shahramian | shahriar.shahramian@utoronto.ca

 

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

 

09/2004 –        Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Present             University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Supervisors: Professor Tony Chan Carusone, Professor Sorin P. Voinigescu

Thesis: mm-Wave Data Converters: Technology Challenges and Architectures

 

09/2003 –        M.A.Sc Electrical Engineering

09/2004           University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Supervisor: Professor Tony Chan Carusone

Thesis: N/A (Transfer to Ph.D.)

 

09/1999 –        Ba.A.Sc Computer Engineering (Honours)

05/2003           University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Supervisor: Professor Jianwen Zhu

                        Thesis: Design, Manufacturing and Testing of a System-on-a-Chip Prototyping Board

 

 

AWARDS & HONOURS

 

  1. Viola Carless Smith Research Fellowship Award: 2008-2009
  2. Best Paper Award, CSICS International Conference - 2005
  3. Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS), Awarded in Years: 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
  4. Best Teaching Assistant Awards: Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2008
  5. University of Toronto Fellowship Awards, Years: 2004-2005, 2005-2006
  6. The Aloha Award (Best Ba.A.Sc Thesis Award – University of Toronto) – 2003
  7. Graduation with Honours in Computer Engineering from University of Toronto – 2003

 

 

WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

 

2003 –             University of Toronto (M.A.Sc – Ph.D.)

Present             High Speed and mm-Wave Integrated Circuits

 

•      Design, fabrication and testing of record breaking mm-wave integrated circuits using the state
of the art deep submicron CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS technologies:

 

o   E-Band Wireless Transceiver Building Blocks (Due for testing in May 2009)

o   Triple Band 80/160 GHz & 110 GHz PLL in SiGe BiCMOS (Due for testing in August 2009)

o   81-Gbps TIALA-Retimer in 65nm CMOS (CSICS’08)

o   4-bit, 35-GSample/Sec Flash ADC in SiGe BiCMOS (JSSC’09)

o   30-GSample/Sec THA in 0.13μm CMOS (Published CICC’06)

o   40-GSample/Sec THA in SiGe BiCMOS (Best Paper Award CSICS’05, Invited JSSC’06)

 

•      Lab Manager for University of Toronto’s High Speed Integrated Systems Laboratory

 

o   Train new graduate students in using mm-wave testing equipments

o   Maintain state of the art testing equipment

 

•      Teaching Experiences:

 

o   Third year Analog Electronics (ECE331) course instructor

o   Teaching Assistant, various courses between 2003 - 2008

§  Awarded six consecutive Best Teaching Assistant Awards

§  Nominated for the Best University of Toronto Teaching Assistant Award

 

2001 –             University of Toronto (Ba.A.Sc)

2003                Summer Research Internship

 

•      Silicon Photoluminance, exploring the use of silicon for future energy efficient solar panels

•      Design, testing and manufacturing of SoC development boards for future SoC architectures

 

2008                Alcatel-Lucent

                        Summer Intern

 

•      E-Band (71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz) Transceiver design for high bit-rate wireless communications

 

 

 

SKILLS

 

Software:        Cadence (HSPICE, Spectre), Calibre, MATLAB, Maple, Simulink,
Programming languages (C, C++, Java), Windows, UNIX

Equipment:     Highly experienced in using and maintaining high frequency equipment up to 170GHz

Oscilloscopes, VNAs, PSAs, Power Sensors, Mixers, Probe Stations, Signal Sources, BERTs,

Microcontrollers, FPGAs, ect.

Hobbies:         Building electronic projects using off the shelf microcontrollers and FPGAs

                        Photography, rock climbing, mountain biking

 

 

 

EXTRACURRICULAR

 

  1. ISSCC SARATOGA Group 2006, 2007, 2008

•      Student volunteer group who oversee the ISSCC sessions

  1. Volunteer researcher for Global Centre for e-Health Innovation.

•      Design and manufacturing of a blood detection and respiration monitor systems

 

  

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

[1]        S. Shahramian, S.P. Voinigescu, A.C. Carusone, “A 35-GS/s, 4-bit Flash ADC with Active Data and

Clock Distribution Trees”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. Accepted and in press, 2009

 

[2]        S. Shahramian, A.C. Carusone, S.P. Voinigescu, “An 81Gb/s, 1.2V TIALA-Retimer in Standard 65nm

CMOS”, IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium, Technical Digest, pp. 151 - 154,

Nov. 2008.     

 

[3]        S. Shahramian, S.P. Voinigescu and A.C. Carusone, “A 30-GSamples/Sec Track and Hold Amplifier in

0.13μm CMOS Technology,” IEEE CICC Digest, pp. 493-496, San Jose, CA, Sept. 2006.

 

[4]        S. Shahramian, A.C. Carusone, and S.P. Voinigescu, “Design Methodology of a 40-GSamples/Sec Track

& Hold Amplifier in 0.18μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. Vol. 41

No. 10, pp. 2233 - 2240, Oct. 2006. Invited journal paper

 

[5]        S.P. Voinigescu, T. Chalvatzis, K.H.K. Yau, A. Hazneci, A. Garg, S. Shahramian, T. Yao, M. Gordon,

T.O. Dickson, E. Laskin, S.T. Nicolson, A.C. Carusone, L. Tchoketch-Kebir, O. Yuryevich, G. Ng, B. Lai,

and P. Liu, “SiGe BiCMOS for Analog, High-Speed Digital and Millimeter-Wave Applications Beyond

50 GHz,” IEEE BCTM Digest, pp.223-230, Oct. 2006. Invited paper

 

[6]        S. Shahramian, A.C. Carusone, and S.P. Voinigescu, “A 40-GSamples/Sec Track & Hold Amplifier in

0.18mm SiGe BiCMOS Technology,” IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium,

Technical Digest, pp. 101 - 104, Nov. 2005. Awarded Best Paper Award

 

[7]        Shahriar Shahramian, Tony Chan Carusone (2004) Hardware Reduction by Combining Pipelined A/D

Conversion and FIR Filtering for Channel Equalization. International Symposium of Circuits and Systems

(ISCAS). pp. 489 - 92 Vol.3.

 

[8]        Shahriar Shahramian, Tony Chan Carusone (2004) Hardware Reduction by Combining Pipelined A/D

Conversion and FIR Filtering for Channel Equalization. Micronet Workshop. Poster Presentation.

 

[9]        Shahriar Shahramian, Payam Fakhri (2003) Design, Manufacturing and Testing of a System-On-a-Chip

Prototyping Board. Technical Document, 110 Pages. Awarded the Aloha Award

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Citizenship:     CANADA

Date of Birth:       1981