(i) If you DO NOT have a private or government scholarship

and

(ii) if you DO NOT have good grades in

Mathematics (>90%), Physics (>85%), and Basic Electronics (>80%),

DO NOT make any inquiry

for working under my supervision for an M.A.Sc. or Ph.D. graduate work

You may enter as an M.Eng student to prove your potentials for M.A.Sc/Ph.D. (Research) levels of work

Current (2017- ) Research Goals

**Analysis, design and implementation of power efficient analog IC and VLSI systems **

Some of the current research projects of interest are:

1. Low power wide band-width circuit and system implementation in CMOS technology.

2. Multi-mode analog filter implementation using universal amplifier module (UAM).

3. Synthesizing physiological signals

Recent Publications (last six years)

Journals (published/accepted)

1. M. Hasanuzzaman*, R. Raut, and M. Sawan. (2016). High-voltage compliant microelectrode array drivers for intracortical microstimulation. Int. J. of Circ. Theory and Appl., Wiley. 44(3): 660-682.

2. R.Raut, and *G.Gibson. (2015). A Technique to Determine the Designabale Inductance Value(s) in Wide-Band CMOS Amplifier System Employing Shunt-Peaking. Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers.

24(8): 1550119.1-24.

3. *K. Mendhurwar, *H. Sundani, *P. Agarwal, R. Raut, and V. Devabhaktuni. (2012). A new approach to sizing analog CMOS building blocks using pre-compiled neural network models. Analog integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

Conferences (Published/accepted)

1.Navid Hakimtoroghi, Ardlan Sabamehr, Mehrdad Mirshafiei, Rabin Raut, Ashutosh Bagchi. (2017), Comparative study on two types of sensors for measuring vibration response of building structures. The 8^th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Brisbane, Australia Conference Date: 2017/12

2. Navid Hakimitoroghi, Dr. Rabin Raut, Dr. Mehrdad Mirshafiei, Dr. Ashutosh Bagchi. (2017). Compensation techniques for geophone response used as vibration sensor in seismic applications. The Eleventh International Conference on sensing technology, Sydney, Australia

Conference Date: 2017/12

3. *Md. Hasanuzzaman, Rabin Raut, and Mohamad Sawan. (2013). Energy-Efficient High-Voltage Compliant Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces. IEEE Biomedical Circuits And Systems Conference (BioCAS),Netherlands (81-84);

Conference Date: 2013/10

4. *Hasanuzzaman, M.; *Simard, G.; *Krouchev. N.I.; Raut, R.;Sawan, M. (2013). Capacitive-data links,energy-efficient and high-voltage compliant visual intracortical microstimulation system. IEEE Internatl.Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),, China (646-649)

Conference Date: 2013/5

5. *N.I. Krouchev, *M. Hasanuzzaman, *B. Ghane-Motlagh, *A. Vinet, R. Raut, and M. Sawan. (2012). Toward optimal electrical stimulation waveform efficiency:from excitability models to electrode impedance. 17^th International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) conference, Banf, Canada

Conference Date: 2012/9

6. *Hasanuzzaman, M.; Raut, R.; Sawan. (2012). A high-impedance microelectrode driver dedicated for visual intracortical microstimulation. 55th IEEE Internatl., Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWCAS), (222-225)

Conference Date: 2012/8

7. *Md. A.H. Talukder, and R. Raut. (2012). CMOS AMPLIFIER MODULE ALLOWING FOR VOLTAGE, CURRENT, TRANSIMPEDANCE AND TRANSADMITTANCE TRANSFER FUNCTIONS IMPLEMENTATIONS. 25th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal, Canada (1-4)

Conference Date: 2012/4

8. Rabin Raut, and *Aminul Talukder. (2011). Estimating the Design Value(s) of the Shunt-Peaking Inductor(s)

in CMOS Trans-Impedance Amplifier System by Placement of Poles and Zeros. the 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, (17-20)

Conference Date: 2011/12

9. *Ghasemi, O., Raut, R.and Cowan, G. (2011). Complex conjugate pole analysis for bandwidth extension of Transimpedance amplifiers. 2011 IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Korea, Republic of (1-4)

Conference Date: 2011/8