Mohammad Sadegh Jalali
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
Phone: (1) 416 978 3381
E-mail: Sadegh@eecg.toronto.edu
Web page: http://ece.ubc.ca/~sadegh
Education:
High School Degree: Pretoria Boys High School, South Africa, 2003
First three semesters: University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2004-2005
B.Sc.: University of Tehran, Iran, 2005-2008
Electronic Engineering
BS project: Analyses and design of an oscillator in the WiMax standard
Supervisor: Prof. Nasser Masoumi
GPA: 19.01/20, 95.05%
MASc.: University of British Columbia, Canada, 2008-2010
Supervisor: Prof. Shahriar Mirabbasi
GPA: 94.6%
Ph.D. : University of Toronto, Canada, 2010-current
Supervisor: Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami
Areas of Interest:
Analog design
o Gbps Serial links
o Clock and Data Recovery Circuits
o Phase Lock Loops and Delay Lock Loops
o Equalizers
o Active inductor design
o RFID tags
Radio Frequency
o High frequency oscillators and their phase noise
o Wide Range Varactors
Honors and Awards:
Winning the Headmaster’s Award of Academic Excellence, 2003, Pretoria Boys High School
Winner of the Physical Science and Business Economics Prize, 2003, Pretoria Boys High School
Winner of the Merit Award (Gold)- ranked first- of the department of Electrical, Electronic and
Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria for First Year of Engineering, 2004.
Winner of the FOE (Faculty of Engineering) Award-ranked first in the second year of engineering
at the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran, 20042005.
Winner of the FOE (Faculty of Engineering) Award-ranked first in the third year of engineering at
the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran, 2005-2006.
Winner of the FOE (Faculty of Engineering) Award-ranked first in the fourth year of engineering
at the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran, 20062007.
Winner of the FOE (Faculty of Engineering) Award -ranked first overall in the graduate class of
Electrical Engineering at the department of electrical and computer engineering at the university
of Tehran, 2008.
Winner of the Graduate Entrance Scholarship at the department of electrical and computer
engineering at the university of British Columbia, 2008.
Winner of the Partial International tuition waiver award at the department of electrical and
computer engineering at the University of British Columbia, 2008.
Winner of the Partial International tuition waiver award at the department of electrical and
computer engineering at the University of British Columbia, 2009.
Winner of the University Graduate Fellowship at the department of electrical and computer
engineering at the University of British Columbia, 2009.
One of the three winners of the teaching assistant award at the department of electrical and
computer engineering at the University of Toronto, Fall 2010.
University of Tehran Courses:
Graduate Courses: RFIC Design Technology; Grade: 19/20
Relative Courses: Electronic I (20/20), Electronic II (20/20), Electronic III (20/20), Logic Circuit
(19.6/20), Microprocessors (20/20), Industrial electronics (20/20), Communication (19.6/20), Linear
Control systems(19/20), Pulse technique (20/20), Modern physics (19.5/20), Electric circuits II
(20/20), Electronic Physics (18/20), Communication Circuits (19.5/20), Bachelor’s project (20/20),
Electric Filters (18.6/20), Signals and systems (17/20), Digital electronics (17.8/20)
University of British Columbia Courses:
EECE 479: Introduction to VLSI Systems, Prof. Steve Wilton: 100 %
EECE 480: Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis, Prof. David Pulfrey: 100%
EECE 577: Solid-State Electronic and Photonic Devices, Prof. David Pulfrey: 97%
EECE 579: Advanced Topics in VLSI Design, Prof. Resve Saleh and Dr. Brad Quinton: 96%
EECE 563: Wireless Communication systems, Prof. Lutz Lampe: 87%
EECE 509: Advanced Microsystems Design, Prof. Edmond Cretu: Audited
EECE 588: Analog Integrated Circuits Design, Prof. Shahriar Mirabbasi: 96%
EECE 564: Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise, Prof. Robert Schober: Audited
University of Toronto Courses:
ECE 1520: Data Communication, Prof. Ravi Adve
ECE 1500: Stochastic Processes, Prof. Raymond Kwong
ECE 1352: Analog Circuit Design I, Prof. Tony Chan Carusone
ECE 1392: Integrated Circuits for Digital Communications, Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami
ECE 1365: High Frequency Integrated Circuits, Prof. Sorin Voinigescu
ECE 1371: Advanced Analog Circuits, Prof. David Johns - Audited
Industrial Work Experience:
Working on Wireless Networks and building a ZigBee application on Chipcon’s CC2430 at Marsus
Com. Corporation, summer 2006 (Awarded by the project advisor, Prof. N. Masoumi, and the CEO
of the Marsus Com. Corp., Mr. M. Ghazzi)
Working on routing methods in a ZigBee Network for a BMS application and implementing it on
TI’s CC2430 at Marsus Com. Corporation, February 2008 – August 2008.
Presentations:
“An introduction into ADS”, University of Tehran, 2006
“LC oscillators design and simulation in ADS”, RFIC course presentation, University of Tehran,
2007
“Effect of size reduction on the phase noise of an oscillator”, RFIC course presentation,
University of Tehran, 2007
“HSPICE in analog circuit simulations”, University of Tehran, 2008.
“Performance Analyses of IEEE 802.15.4a UWB Physical Layer“, University of British Columbia,
2008
“Phase locked loop, operation and design”, University of British Columbia, 2008
“Shunt peaking of buffers with tunable active inductors”, University of British Columbia, 2009
“A hybrid PLL for clock and data recovery applications”, University of British Columbia, 2010
Technical Reports:
M.S.Jalali, H. Katebi and N. Masoumi, ”ZigBee”, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, university of Tehran
M.S.Jalali and N. Masoumi, “Effect of decreasing the channel length on phase noise”,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, university of Tehran
Publications:
M.S. Jalali and N. Masoumi, “A wide range linear varactor”, accepted In the IEEE Design and
Technology on Integrated Systems in Nano Era, 2008
M.S. Jalali, S. Mirabbasi and K. Iniewski, “Modeling Pixel-to-Pixel Capacitance in CZT-Based
Imaging Systems”, accepted in the NSS/MIC conference, 2009
A. Sharif-Bakhtiar, M.S. Jalali, S. Mirabbasi, “An RF Power Harvesting System with Input-Tuning
for Long-Range RFID Tags”, ISCAS, pp. 4085-4088, May 2010.
M.S. Jalali, A. Sharif-Bakhtiar, S. Mirabbasi, ”A Charge-Pump with a High Output Swing for PLL
and CDR Applications”, NEWCAS, pp. 297-300, June 2010.
A. Sharif Bakhtiar, M.S. Jalali, S. Mirabbasi, “A High efficiency CMOS Rectifier with Threshold
Voltage Cancelation for RFID tags Applications”, RFID, pp. 83-88, April 2010.
M.S. Jalali, A. Sharif-Bakhtiar, S. Mirabbasi, ”A hybrid Phase-Locked Loop for CDR Applications”,
to appear in ISCAS 2011.
Have done reviews for the following conferences and journals:
Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS I)
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2010 (ISCAS 2010)
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant: Electric Circuits II, University of Tehran, Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant: Engineering Mathematics, University of Tehran, Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant: Electronics II, University of Tehran, Spring 2007
Teaching Assistant: Electronics III, University of Tehran, Spring 2008
Teaching Assistant: Electronics and Electro mechanics, University of British Columbia, Spring
2009
Teaching Assistant: Digital systems Design, University of British Columbia, Summer 2009
Teaching Assistant: Project integrated Program, University of British Columbia, Winter 2009
Teaching Assistant: Project integrated Program, University of British Columbia, Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant: Electronics and Electro mechanics, University of British Columbia, Spring
2010
Teaching Assistant: Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design, University of British Columbia,
Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant: Digital systems Design, University of British Columbia, Summer 2010
Teaching Assistant: Electronic Circuits, University of Toronto, Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant: Introductory Electronics, University of Toronto, Spring 2011
Skills:
Professional Software: Simulink, ModelSim, Quartus, HSpice, Orcad, ADS, Proteus, Protel DXP,
MATLAB, PSCAD, PSAT, Magic, IRSIM, Cadence.
Other Software: 3D studio Max, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Visio, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,
Word and Frontpage.
Programming: C/C++, Visual Basic.Net, Pascal, Basic, Assembly.
Hardware Description language: Verilog, VHDL.
Languages: Fluent in English and Farsi; Familiar with Arabic