Pouya Valizadeh

Professor of Electrical Engineering

- 1992 Olympiad of Mathematics. Accepted among the top one hundred Iranian high school students in mathematics.

- Ranked third out of 125 among Electrical Engineering B.Sc. graduates of 1997, ECE department of University of Tehran.

- Ranked first out of 10 among Bioelectrical Engineering M.Sc. graduates of 1999, ECE department of University of Tehran.

- Winner of the best paper prize of the 9th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference.

- Research Assistant, Solid State Electronics Laboratory, The University of Michigan, Sep. 2000-April 2005.

- Panelist of “The Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies (EPDT)” program of National Science Foundation, January 2006.

Invited talks (Since Jan 2007)

• Wide Band-gap Semiconductors for Power Amplification: Is There Room Left for Semiconductors Other than Silicon?, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, January 2007.

• Novel Approaches in Micro/Nano-Electronics: Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices and MEMS for High Voltage Integrated Circuits, Concordia University, April 2007.

• AlGaN/GaN MODFET: RELIABILITY CONCERNS and POLARIZATION-DRIVEN DEVICE DESIGN, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, March 2008.

• AlGaN/GaN MODFET: RELIABILITY CONCERNS and POLARIZATION-DRIVEN DEVICE DESIGN, IEEE Student Branch, University of Tehran, May 2008.

Services to research community

Book reviews:

- Semiconductor Devices for Integrated Circuits, by Chenming Hu, Prentice Hall (review date Feb 2008).

Journal review for:

- IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

- IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

- IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

- Journal of Solid State Electronics

- Journal of Electronic Materials

Review panels and foundations served:

- National Science Foundation (NSF)

- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)