2003 - 2006 Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Electrical Engineering, Thesis Integrated Circuits for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio
2000 - 2002 M.S., Sharif University of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Thesis Low Power Σ/Δ Modulator for Audio Applications
1996 - 2000 B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Electrical Engineering.
Work Experience
2015 - Present Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.
2000 - 2015 Principal Staff Scientist at Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, California.
2003 - 2006 Graduate Research Assistant at University of California, Irvine.
2000 - 2003 Design Engineer at Emad Semicon, Tehran, Iran.
Books
Aminghasem Safarian and Payam Heydari, Silicon-Based RF Front-Ends for UWB Radios, Springer
Publishing, Jan. 2008.
Journal Articles
Sattari, R.; Safarian, A.,"Ultra-low power frequency-shift keying demodulator based on injection-locking
ring oscillator without using phase locked loop for wireless body area networks", Electronics Letters, vol. 53, no. 16,
pp. 1148 - 1150, 2017.
Shokrekhodaei,M.; Safarian, A. ; Atarodi, M.,"Transmitter leakage cancellation technique for CMOS SAW-less
radio front-ends",Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 383-394, Dec. 2017.
Safarian, A.; Shameli, A. ; Rofougaran, A. ; Rofougaran, M. ; De Flaviis, F. , "RF Identification
(RFID) Reader Front Ends With Active Blocker Rejection", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
vol. 57, no. 5, part 2, pp. 1320-1329, May 2009.
Shameli, A. ; Safarian, A. ; Rofougaran, A. ; Rofougaran, M. ; Castaneda, J. ; De Flaviis,
F., "A UHF Near-Field RFID System With Fully Integrated Transponder", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory
and Techniques, vol. 56, no. 5, part 2, pp. 1267-1277, May 2008.
Shameli, A. ; Safarian, A. ; Rofougaran, A. ; Rofougaran, M. ; De Flaviis, F. ,"A Two-Point
Modulation Technique for CMOS Power Amplifier in Polar Transmitter Architecture", IEEE Transactions on Microwave
Theory and Techniques, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 31-38, Jan. 2008.
Safarian, A.; Lei Zhou ; Heydari, P. , "CMOS Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters
for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.: 42, no. 7, pp.
1481-1491, Jun 2007.
Shameli, A. ; Safarian, A. ; Rofougaran, A. ; Rofougaran, M. ; De Flaviis, F. , "Power Harvester
Design for Passive UHF RFID Tag Using a Voltage Boosting Technique", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory
and Techniques, vol. 55, no. 6, part 1, pp. 1089-1097, Jun 2007.
Tzeng, F.; Deyi Pi ; Safarian, A. ; Heydari, P., "Theoretical Analysis of Novel Multi-Order
LC Oscillators", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 287-291,
Mar. 2007.
Safarian, A. ; Anand, S. ; Heydari, P. , "On the Dynamics of Regenerative Frequency Dividers",IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1413-1417, Dec. 2006.
Safarian, A. , Sahandi, F. , Heydari, P. , Atarodi, M., "A Low-Power, Second-Order Sigma/Delta
Modulator Using A Single Class-AB Op-Amp for Voice-Band Applications," Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits
and Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 199-211, Nov. 2006.
Zhou, L. ; Safarian, A. ; Heydari, P., "CMOS wideband analogue delay stage", Electronics Letters
, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1213-1214, Oct. 2006.
Safarian, A.; Yazdi, A. ; Heydari, P., "Design and analysis of an ultrawide-band distributed CMOS mixer", IEEE Transactions
on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 618-629, May 2005.