Electrical Engineer Engineering

Summary

Senior Electrical Engineer with **+ years of experience in analog/RF/digital/mixed-signal IC design, and implementation of medical devices. Successful track record of full-cycle FDA-approved medical product implementation from idea to market release. Experienced as technical lead in hardware development for low-power applications & medical devices. Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 2011 - 2016 Biomedical Circuits and Systems

GPA: 4.0/4.0

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2008 – 2011 Circuits and Systems

GPA: 3.9/4.0

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 2003 - 2008 Electronics

GPA 3.85/4.0

Experience

Medtronic-Cardioinsight August 2016 - Present

Medtronic-Cardioinsight (CIT) is the first non-invasive mapping system to map electrical disorders of the heart to provide simultaneous, 3D, multi-chamber mapping and localization of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms. Sr. Electrical Engineer

• Responsibilities

- Technical lead of three person team responsible for

§ design and implementation of a wireless, miniaturized, battery-powered, and high-electrode density acquisition system for 252-channel ECG acquisition system

§ integration of ECG-Belt product with Cardioinsight Acquisition System

§ Design and implementation of innovative hardware/software solutions

• Design/Innovation

- Designed IBCD feature (Impedance-based Bad Channel Detection) for auto-detection of low quality signals in high-electrode density acquisition systems.

§ Proposing the idea and leading a team of three engineers to final product implementation.

§ Significant enhancement in quality of the cardiac maps & overall system reliability.

§ Patent via Medtronic “A novel lead-off detection for high-electrode density applications”

§ Key feature in advertising the new product release (Bronco+ Cardioinsight) Case Western Reserve University Sep. 2011 –July 2016 Graduate Research Assistant

Thesis title: A wireless, miniaturized, and implantable Brain-Machine-Spinal Cord Interface (BMSI) System on Chip (SoC) for behavioral recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). Description: Low-power, wireless, implantable, closed-loop Brain-Machine Spinal Cord Interface (BMSI) IC have been designed and developed by integrating analog/mixed-signal circuitry and VLSI DSP systems on a single-chip for restoring functional recovery after spinal cord injury. The fabricated and packaged System on Chip (SoC) have been tested in anesthetized rats with collaboration of neuroscientists at University of Kansas Medical Center for in vivo characterization and functionality test in rat model.

• Sole IC designer and implementer for IC chip used in animal spinal implant trials. In charge of design, simulation, implementation, electrical testing of the entire BMSI chip and apparatus for testing functionality in in-vivo experiments.

• Analog and digital integrated circuit design (LNA, Gm-C Filter, ADC, Stimulator, Digital signal processing unit)

• Architected layout and fabrication of IC in 0.35 μm AMS technology

• Designed and implemented test bench characterization of the fabricated IC

- Primary engineer on in vivo experiments with anesthetized rats to show the chip functionality by closed-loop cortical control of intra-spinal micro-stimulation (ISMS) Phone: 216-***-****

Email: ***.*****@*****.***

Shahabedin Shahdoostfard

Eskan Currency Exchange Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2011

Co-Founder/CEO/CFO

• Started company with few thousand dollars of seed money and grew it to a very successful business in a year.

• Managed 3 employee / Headed relationships with regulatory bodies

• Transitioned all my duties to my business partners prior to leaving for USA Sariak Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010

Electrical Engineer

• Design and implementation of SIEMENS PLCs for smart buildings.

• Programmed Siemens PLCs using Ladder Logic.

Sharif University of Technology & University of Toronto 2008 - 2011 Graduate Research Assistant

Thesis title: Design, simulation, and Implementation of a low-noise trans-impedance amplifier for 2.5Gb/s optical communications.

Description: This project was initially defined and funded at Photonics group of University of Toronto. Among all M.Sc. students, my proposal was selected for this joint project. An ultra-low-power and low-noise transimpedance amplifier for 2.5 Gb/s optical communication was designed and successfully implemented in 0.13 μm IBM and 0.18 μm TSMC technologies. Both fabricated chips were measured using high frequency lab equipment.

• Sole IC designer

o Designed Analog Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) / Architected layout and fabrication of 0.13um and 0.18um CMOS / Designed and implemented test bench characterization of the fabricated IC Shahid Beheshti University 2003 – 2008

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Thesis title: Quantum computing applications in multiple valued logic (MVL) family Skills

• Electrical Design

o RF/mm-Wave circuit and system Design: Amplifiers, Filters, Oscillators, Mixers, Matching circuits o Analog/mixed-signal circuit and system design: OP-Amps, Data Converters, Comparators, and Filters o Digital VLSI circuit design: Combinatorial, Sequential, Synchronous, Asynchronous, State Machines o FPGA/ASIC implementation of DSP systems: Custom design & optimization of digital filters & DSP algorithms o Physical Design: RTL design, Synthesis, Floor-planning, CTS, P&R, STA, Signoff verification, GDSII generation o System-on-Chip design: Design and integration of analog/ mixed-signal/ digital circuits on a single chip substrate o Verification and characterization of integrated circuits: Design of test strategies and setups, circuit debugging o PCB design and assembly

• Software & Tools

o EDA Tools: Cadence design tools: Virtuoso, RTL Compiler, Encounter (EDI), INCISIVE (NCsim) o Programming Languages: Verilog, MATLAB, Simulink, LabView, Assembly, Ladder Logic. o Lab Equipment: Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, Data Acquisition Boards, Spectrum Analyzers o Other Tools: HSpice, Quartus, ModelSim, LEdit, ExpressPCB, PLC. Publications

• [J1] S. Shahdoost, S. Frost, D. Guggenmos, J. Borrell, C. Dunham, S. Barbay, R. Nudo, P. Mohseni “A Brain-Spinal Interface (BSI) System-on-Chip (SoC) for Closed-Loop Cortically-Controlled Intraspinal Microstimulation” Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s10470-017-1093-1.

• [J2] S. Shahdoost; R. Nudo; P. Mohseni, "Generation of Stimulus Triggering from Intracortical Spike Activity for Brain- Machine-Body Interfaces (BMBIs)," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2017, vol.25, PP998-1008.

• [J3] Shahdoost, S.; Medi, A; Saniei, N, "Design of A Low-Noise Transimpedance Amplifier with Capacitive Feedback" Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer, 2015, Doi 10.1007/s10470-015-0669-x.

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