Dr. Mahdi Shabany, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto

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Mahdi Shabany

Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology

Education:

2004 - 2009 Ph.D. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2002 - 2004 M.A.Sc. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

1998 - 2002 B.Sc. Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Research:

Electronics (Ph.D.):

1.      VLSI in Digital Communications and Signal Processing

2.      Architecture/Algorithm Design for Broadband Communication Systems

3.      ASIC/RTL Digital Circuit Design

4.      Reconfigurable Architectures for ASIC Implementation of WiMAX PHY

5.      VLSI Realization of Sequential Monte Carlo Estimation Methods

6.      Reconfigurable Architectures for Efficient Implementation of Particle Filters

Communications (M.A.Sc):

7.      Resource Allocation in beyond 3G

8.      Multi-hop Cellular Networks

9.      Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Networks

Patents:

10. “Method and System for a low-complexity Soft-output MIMO Detection”, US Patent No. 006810 May 2011.

11. “Low Complexity Optimal Soft MIMO Receiver”, US Patent No. 0232241, Sep. 2009.

12. “Particle Filtering as a compensator for nonlinearity of Solid-State Power Amplifiers”, Provisional US patent, submitted May 2007.

13. “High-speed QR decomposition scheme for high mobility WiMAX systems”, US Patent submitted May 2009.

Publications:

1.       M. Shabany, A. Yousef, P. G. Gulak, “A High-Throughput 0.13 um CMOS Lattice Reduction Core Supporting 880Mb/s Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, Accepted for publication, 2012.

2.       M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, “A Novel MIMO Detection Algorithm for High-Order Constellations in the Complex Domain”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, Accepted for publication, 2012.

3.       M. Shabany, D. Patel, P. G. Gulak, “A Low-Latency Low-Power QR-Decomposition ASIC Implementation in 0.13 um CMOS”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Accepted for publication, 2012.

4.       K. Neshatpour, M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany “A Low-Complexity High-Throughput ASIC for the SC-FDMA MIMO Detectors”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'12), 2012.

5.       M. Shabany, “An Efficient Architecture for Sequential Monte Carlo Receivers in Wireless Flat-Fading Channels”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (VLSI systems), 2011.

6.      M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, “Ultra High-throughput Architectures for Hard-output MIMO Detectors in the Complex Domain”, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2011.

Yousef, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, " Performance Analysis of Lattice-Reduction Algorithms or a Novel LR-Compatible K-Best MIMO Detector", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'11), 2011.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “A 675Mb/s, 4×4 64-QAM, K-Best MIMO Detector in 0.13um CMOS", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, No. 99, 2010.

9.      V. Smolyakov, D. Patel, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, " A WiMAX/LTE Compliant FPGA Implementation of a High-Throughput Low-Complexity 4x4 64-QAM Soft MIMO Receiver", IEEE Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Nov. 2010.

10.  M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, B. Vosough Vahdat, “A High-Throughput VLSI Implementation of a Modified Complex K-Best Detector”, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2010.

11.  M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, B. Vosough Vahdat, “'A High-Throughput, Low-Latency VLSI Realization of 4×4 Complex K-Best MIMO Detectors”, CCECE 2010.

12.  A. Yousef, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, " VLSI Implementation of a Hardware-Optimized Lattice Reduction Algorithm for WiMAX/LTE MIMO Detection ", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), 2010.

13.  D. Patel, V. Smolyakov, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, "VLSI Implementation of a WiMAX/LTE Compliant Low-complexity High-Throughput Soft-Output K-Best MIMO Detector", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), 2010.

D. Patel, M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “A Low-Complexity High-Speed QR Decomposition implementation for MIMO Receivers”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'09), accepted for presentation 2009.

M. Shabany, E. Sousa, "Downlink Resource Allocation for Autonomous Infrastructure-based Multi-hop Cellular Networks", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “A 0.13-μm CMOS, 655Mb/s, 64-QAM, K-Best 4×4 MIMO Detector", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC'09), accepted.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Efficient Compensation of the Nonlinearity of Solid-State Power Amplifiers Using Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Methods”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2008.

M. Shabany, K. Navaie, and E. Sousa, "A Utility-based Downlink Radio Resource Allocation for Multi-service Cellular DS-CDMA Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2006.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “A Systolic Architecture of a Sequential Monte Carlo-based Equalizer for Frequency-Selective MIMO Channels”, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'08), pp: 67-72, 2008.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “The Application of Lattice-Reduction to the K-Best Algorithm for Near-Optimal MIMO Detection”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’08), pp: 316-319.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Scalable VLSI architecture for K-best lattice decoders”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS’08), pp: 940-943.

M. Shabany, K. Su, P. G. Gulak, “A pipelined scalable high-throughput implementation of a near-ML K-best complex lattice decoder”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’08), pp: 3173-3176.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Application of Sequential Monte Carlo to M-QAM Schemes in the Presence of Nonlinear Solid-State Power Amplifiers”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’07), pp: 2295-2298, best paper award nominee.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “VLSI implementation of a sequential Monte Carlo receiver”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’06), pp: 3418-3421, 2006.

M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “An efficient architecture for distributed resampling for high-speed particle filtering”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’06), pp: 3422-3425, 2006.

M. Shabany, H. Shojania, J. Zhang, J. Omidi, P. G. Gulak, “VLSI Architecture of a Wireless Channel Estimator Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC’05), pp: 468-472, 2005.

M. Shabany, K. Navaie, E. S. Sousa, “Downlink Resource Allocation for Data Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks”, IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC’04), pp: 436-442, 2004.

28.  M. Shabany, E. S. Sousa, “Joint Rate Allocation and Routing Scheme in Multi-hop Cellular CDMA Networks”, IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC’04), pp: 442-448, 2004.

M. Shabany, K. Navaie, ”Downlink Resource Allocation for Delay Constraint Data Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, pp: 179-183, 2004.

Teaching:

Sharif University of Technology:

14. ASIC/FPGA Chip Design, Fall 2009.

15. ASIC/FPGA Chip Design, Winter 2010.

16. Digital VLSI Architectures, Winter 2010.

17. VLSI, Fall 2010.

18. Logic Circuits, Fall 2011.

19. Analog Circuits, Winter 2012.

University of Toronto:

I taught ECE190, Discrete Mathematics, as the sole responsibility instructor, spring 2007, ECE Department at University of Toronto.

I have been teaching assistant for the following courses:

20. ECE 334: Digital Circuits                                                2007 - 2008

21. ECE 241: Digital Systems                                               2007

22. ECE 530: Analog electronics                                          2005

23. ECE 198: Communication and Design                            2004 - 2006

24. ECE 190: Discrete Mathematics                                     2004 - 2005

25. ECE 115: Electricity and Magnetism                               2004 - 2006

26. ECE 416: Communication Systems                                 2002

Contact Info:

Office:
Room 270, Old building of Havafaza, EE Department, Azadi Ave, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran

Email: mahdi at sharif.edu