Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students
| Name (term) | Thesis title |
Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmet Camlica (2013 - 2019) | Device Architectures for Improved Temporal Response with Amorphous Selenium Radiation Detectors |
Res. Asst. Prof. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo |
| Chris Scott (2011 - 2019) |
Hybrid Semiconductor Detectors for High Spatial Resolution Phase-contrast X-ray Imaging |
Imaging Systems Design Engineer, KA Imaging |
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Ayman Hamouda (2010 – 2015) |
Design Techniques for Lithography-Friendly Nanometer CMOS ICs ( co-supervised with Dr. Mohab Anis) |
Senior Engineer, IBM (NY) |
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Kyung-Wook Shin (2009-2014) |
Silicon X-ray Detector with Integrated TFT Readout | Scientist, Argonne National Labs, USA |
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Umar Shafique (2009 - 2014) |
Organic semiconductor detector for large area digital imaging |
Postdoctoral fellow, ecole polytechnique de montreal |
| Shiva Abbaszadeh (2009 - 2014) | Indirect conversion amorphous selenium (a-Se) photodetectors for medical imaging applications | Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University |
| Nicholas Allec (2008 - 2012) | Multilayer energy discriminating detector for medical x-ray imaging applications | Design Engineer, Apple, CA |
| Yuan Fang (2008-2013) | Monte-Carlo transport methods for semiconductor x-ray imaging detectors | Lead review of Medical Devices, US Food and Drug Administration |
| Michael Adachi (2007 - 2012) | Development and characterization of plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) grown silicon nanowires for thin film photovoltaics | Process Engineer, IBM, NYC |
| Amir Goldan (2006 - 2011) | Unipolar charge-sensing for evaporated large-area solid-state photoconductors for digital radiography | Research instructor of Radiology, Stony Brook Medicine, NY, USA |
| Mohammed Yazdandoost (2008 - 2011) | Photon quantum noise limited pixel and array architectures in amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology for large area digital imaging | Sensing systems architect, Apple, USA |
| Hadi Izadi (2003-10) | Multi-mode pixel architectures for large-area real-time x-ray imaging | Senior Engineer, Kardium, Vancouver Canada |
| Afrin Sultana (2005 - 2009) | Amorphous silicon based large area detector for protein crystallography | Senior device engineer, Intel Corporation |
| Nader Safavian (2005 - 2009) | Current programmed active pixel sensors for large area diagnostic x-ray imaging | Senior imaging circuit engineer, ON Semiconductor |
| Farhad Taghibakhsh (2004 - 2008) | Active pixel sensor architectures for high resolution, large area, digital imaging | System designer, Qualcomm, USA |
Master of Applied Science (MASc) students
| Name (term) | Thesis title | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Li, Yun Zhe (Hummer) (2014-2018) | Hybrid Amorphous-Selenium/CMOS Low-Light Imager | CMOS Design Engineer, KA Imaging, Kitchener Canada |
| Maurino, Sebastian (2014-2016) |
Design and Optimization of a Stacked Three-Layer X-ray Detector for Multi-Spectral Medical Imaging Applications |
Medical Physics Scientist and Engineer, KA Imaging, Kitchener Canada |
| Parsfar, Alireza (2012 – 2015) | Design and Implementation of a High Resolution CMOS X-Ray Imager with Amorphous Selenium Sensor (co-supervised with Peter Levine) | Engineer, Intel, Toronto Canada |
| Ghaffari, Saeedeh (2012 – 2014) | Characterization of high gain selenium X-ray detectors for indirect X-ray imaging | Hardware Engineer, KA Imaging, Kitchener Canada |
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Ryan Mann (2012 - 2014) |
Evaluation of digital x-ray imaging technologies for tuberculosis screening | Systems engineer, Pneumavision |
| Sina Ghanbarzadeh (2011 - 2013) | High performance, low cost lateral metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector for large area indirect x-ray imaging | Lead hardware engineer, KA Imaging, Kitchener Canada |
| Rasoul Keshavarzi (2009 - 2012) | Development of external readout circuitry for digital x-ray imager | Lab instructor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Waterloo |
| Bahman Hadji (2008 - 2010) | Evaluation of a direct detection selenium complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) 8x8 passive pixel sensor array for digital x-ray imaging applications | Product marketing engineer, OmniVision Technologies |
| Dali Wu (2008-2010) | Noise analysis and measurement for current mode and voltage mode active pixel sensor readout methods | Imaging engineer, Aptina, San Jose, USA |
| Ida Khodami (2006 - 2007) | Short wavelength hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si):H photodetector for bio-molecular fragment sizing | Senior engineer, Illumina Inc, San Diego, USA |
| Michael Adachi (2005 - 2007) | Low temperature thin film silicon solar cells prepared by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition | Postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto |
| Lydia Tse (2004-2007) | Low temperature p+ nc-Si:H (positively doped hydrogenated nano-crystalline silicon) window layers for large area thin-film solar cells | Senior test engineer, GLI Asia, Hong Kong |
| Golnaz Sanaie (2003 - 2006) | Low noise high dynamic range pixel architecture in amorphous silicon technology for diagnostic medical imaging applications | Reliability manager, Schneider Electric, Vancouver, Canada |
| Mingyuan Zhao (2003 - 2005) | Self-aligned polysilicon gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor for large area electronics | Product engineer, RF Microdevices, North Carolina, USA |
| Ottaviani, Tony (2003 - 2005) | Column readout circuitry for amorphous silicon pixel amplifiers for digital imaging | Senior engineer, Alcatel-Lucent, Ottawa, Canada |
Postdoctoral fellows (PDF)
| Name (term) | Research | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Sheikh Hasibul Majid (2009-2012) | Large area amorphous selenium detectors for digital x-ray imaging applications | Assistant professor, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia |
| Feng Chen (2009-2010) | Development of nano-scale solid state frisch grids | Process engineer, Ignis Innovation, Waterloo, Canada |
| Kai Wang (2008-2011) | Development of low dark current amorphous selenium x-ray photoconductor | Imaging pixel engineer, Apple, Cupertino, USA |
| Manju Malhotra (2004 - 2005) | Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (CVD) deposited semiconductor films for imaging and photovoltaics | Teacher, Oxford Learning Center, Vancouver, Canada |