RIZWAN BASHIRULLAH
Assistant Professor

 

Education:

PhD, EE, North Carolina State University, 2004
MS, EE, North Carolina State University, 1999
BSEE, University of Central Florida, 1997

Contact Information:

Email:  rizwan@tec.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-0622
Office:  527 New Engineering Building
Homepage:  www.icr.ece.ufl.edu

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Electronics
Lab:   Electronics Circuits Laboratory

Fields of Interest:

• Biomedical circuits and wireless interfaces
• High-performance I/O circuits and low power analog/digital VLSI
• Electronic circuit devices and technology

Employment:

2005 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
2004 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2008
J. C. Sanchez, J. C. Príncipe, T. Nishida, R. Bashirullah, J. G. Harris, and J. Fortes, “Brain-Machine Interfaces: The need for beyond the state-of-the-art technology and signal processing,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 29-40, 2008.

2007
H. Yu, G.S. Irby, D.M. Peterson, M-T. Nguyen, G. Flores, N. Euliano, R. Bashirullah, "A Printed Capsule Antenna for Medication Compliance Monitoring,," IEE Electronic Letters, vol. 43, no. 22, Oct. 25 2007 4. P. Li, R. Bashirullah, "A Wireless Power Interface for Rechargeable Battery Operated Medical Implants," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, vol. 54, no.10, pp. 912-916, Oct. 2007

L. Zhang, J. Wilson, R. Bashirullah, L. Luo, J. Xu, P. Franzon, "Voltage-Mode Driver Pre-emphasis Technique for On-Chip Global Buses," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 231-236, Feb. 2007.

2006
J. E. Brewer, L. Gao, A. Sugavanam, J.-J. Lin, Y. Su, C. Aso, Y.-P. Ding, A. Verma, x. Yang, Z. Li, H. Wu, M.-H. Hwang, S.-H. Hwang, J. Lin, R. Bashirullah, R. Fox, D. Taubenheim, P. Gorday, F. Martin, and K. K. O., "RF Substystems Implemented in Mainstream CMOS," IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 39-46, Dec 2006.

R. Bashirullah, "Reduced delay sensitivity to proces induced variability in current sensing interconnects," Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 531-532, April 2006.

R. Bashirullah, W. Liu, R. Cavin, D. Edwards, "A 16Gb/s Adaptive Bandwidth On-chip Bus Based on Hybrid Current/Voltage Mode Signaling," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 2, Feb. 2006.

Contracts and Grants:

• Convergent, "Electronic Pills for Medication Compliance"
• Intel Corp., "Integrated Power Converters"
• National Science Foundation, "CAREER: Ultra Low Power Passive Microsystems for Medication Compliance Monitoring"
• DARPA/SPAWAR, "RF Subsystem Research"
• Semiconductor Research Corp, In Situ Characerization of High=Speed Digital and RF Interconnect-Chip-Package Systems

Honors and Awards:

2006 - National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award

Patents

• US patent, #20050005046 - “Integrated Circuit Devices Having On-Chip Adaptive Bandwidth Buses and Related Methods.” File Date: May 30th, 2003. (Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec) with Wentai Liu, Ralph Cavin
• UF Invention Disclosure - “IC Microfluidic platform with integrated magnetic resonance probe using standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)”
• UF Invention Disclosure 619P - “Wireless Multiple Frequency MR Coil”, withThomas Mareci, Brian S. Letzen, and Barbara L. Beck
• UF Invention Disclosure - “Ultra-low power wireless implantable neural electrode system”, with Toshikazu Nishida, John Harris, Jose Principe, Justin Sanchez,