Masoud Seifaei

Masoud Seifaei, M.Sc.

Group Leader of Analog Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Group
Room: Raum 02.034

About Me

Masoud graduated with honors with bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, in 2010 and 2012, respectively.  In 2008 he has founded Arian Electronics of Tabriz Ltd. to provide embedded system solutions for research and industry sectors. In September 2013 he was granted a full-time scientific faculty–member position in Sahand university of technology as an instructor, where he was a member of microelectronics group until September 2016. In October 2017 he has joined the chair of Microelectronics at the university of Freiburg as researcher in the field of analog-mixed signal circuit design until November 2021. After working a short while as analog circuit design engineer in Belgium, he has joined Vitesco technologies GmbH in Nürnberg as analog ASIC design engineer in August 2022, where he currently works part-time. In December 2022 he has joined the chair of electrical smart city systems as an associate researcher. His research interests are analog-mixed signal circuit design, switching power converters, analog-mixed signal neuromorphic accelerators, and renewable energies.  

Academic CV

since 2022 Research Associate and Group Leader

Chair of Electrical Smart City Systems

Department Electrical Engineering (FAU)
2016-2021 Researcher, teaching assistant, PhD student  
Fritz-Hüttinger chair of microelectronics, IMTEK, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg 
2013-2016 Scientific faculty-member, researcher, and lecturer  
Sahand University of Technology, microelectronics group 
2010-2012 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering-circuit and systems
Sahand University of Technology (SUT), Tabriz, Iran.  Thesis: Design and implementation of spoken keyword spotter system using artificial neural networks.
2006-2010 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Sahand University of Technology (SUT), Tabriz, Iran.  Thesis: Design and implementation of reconfigurable FIR filters on FPGA.  

Research profile (Focus topics and interests)

  • Analog-mixed signal circuit design 
  • Analog-mixed signal neuromorphic accelerators 
  • Switching power converters 
  • Renewable Energies 

Projects

  • 6G TERAKOM 
  • FlexCom I & II  
  • The Ultrasonic Phased Array Imaging system for nondestructive testing of Electrofusion Joints in Polyethylene Pipes  
  • Design of analog neural processor chip in 180 nm CMOS technology for image classification. 
  • Design of analog cardiac arrhythmia classification system in 22 nm FDSOI CMOS technology. 

Publications

Awards

 

Teaching

  • VLSI (IMTEK, Teaching assistant) 
  • Microelectronics (IMTEK, Teaching assistant)  
  • Solid-state pulse circuit design (SUT, Lecturer) 
  • Microprocessors and microcontroller programming (SUT, Lecturer) 
  • Digital logic circuit design (SUT, Lecturer) 
  • C programming language (SUT, Lecturer)
  • Electronics laboratory (SUT, Lecturer) 

 

Student Theses

  • 2021: Sivaram Sivaprakash
    An Active Self-Calibration Scheme for Analog Current-Mode Circuits in a 22 nm FDSOI CMOS Technology 
  • 2020: Nitish Satya Murthy
    System-level design of analog-to-digital converters based on analog neural networks. 
  • 2020: Basharat Basharat
    Analysis of PID, LQR and MPC controllers on DC-DC buck converter. 
  • 2020: Peter Starek 
    Implementation of modern control theories on DC-DC converters.