Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Reza Molavi
Reza Molavi received B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2003 and the M.Sc. and PhD degrees from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2005, and 2013, respectively.
He was a member of mixed-signal development group at PMC-Sierra from 2007 to 2013, where he was involved in the design of several high-performance clocking and and transceiver building blocks for multigigabit serial data links and wireless chip products. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer with the Electrical Engineering Department of University of British Columbia from 2014 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been a senior IC design engineer with D-Wave Systems and an Adjunct faculty with UBC
He was the recipient of a distinguished award for ranking 2nd in the nationwide Professional Engineering Practice Exam, Iran, 2003. He was also the recipient of the Best Paper Finalist award in the IEEE Canadian conference on Electrical and computer engineering, Montreal, Canada, 2012 and Co-recipient of best paper award at IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits conference in 2015. His research interests include the modeling and design of high-frequency analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Research Groups
Courses
| ELEC 403 |
Digital Integrated Circuit Design Overview of deep submicron custom ic design. Advanced MOS models. IC fabrication. Timing and power calculations. Interconnect modeling and analysis techniques. Circuit-level design issues. SPICE circuit simulation. High-speed circuit design project. |
| ELEC 344 |
Applied Electronics and Electromechanics Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles of power electronics. Not open to students in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Course Outline We will study a variety of AC and DC electromechanical devices. The prerequisite skills for this course in include basic circuit analysis ability (i.e. Ohm’s Law, Kirchoff’s Voltage and Current laws.) Prerequisite |
| ELEC 302 |
Electronic Circuits for Electromechanical Design Semiconductor fundamentals; modelling of electronis devices including diodes and transistors; design of power supplies, waveform generators and logic circuits; signals in time and frequency domains; operational amplifiers; active filters; oscillators; device specification and selection. Prerequisite |
| ELEC 203 |
Basic Circuit Analysis Ideal passive elements and sources; Kirchhoff's Laws; DC circuits; natural, and complete response of first order circuits; operational amplifiers; impedance; phasors; complex power. Not open to students in Electrical and Computer Engineering. [3-2*-0] Corequisite |
| ELEC 205 |
Electronics Laboratory Design project involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, and microcomputers. Corequisite ELEC 204 - Linear Circuits |
| ELEC 402 |
Introduction to VLSI Systems The chip design process using VLSI design styles in CMOS technology. Data path, control and register file design and layout. Clocking schemes, flip-flop and latch-based design. VHDL/Verilog design project using CAD tools. [3-0-2] |
Latest Publications
| 2016 |
A review of wireless-photonic systems: Design methodologies and topologies, constraints, challenges, and innovations in electronics and photonics Journal Article | Optics Communications |
