Babak Vakili Amini (S’00) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology in 1996 and 1998, respectively. His master’s research project was in the area of current mode analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in standard CMOS technology. He worked on the design and implementation of different electronic boards for industrial automation and instrumentation between 1997 and 2001. In fall 2001, he joined Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, as a graduate research assistant, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate.

His research interests include the design and implementation of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits in bipolar and CMOS technologies, high-resolution Sigma-Delta modulators, low-power and low-noise interface circuits for MEMS sensors, switched-capacitor building blocks, and mixed-mode ASIC design.

Publications

· B. Vakili Amini, F. Ayazi, "A 2.5V 14-bit Sigma-Delta CMOS-SOI capacitive

accelerometer," in IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, pp. 2467- 2476, Dec. 2004.

· B. Vakili Amini, S. Pourkamali, and F. Ayazi, "A high resolution, stictionless, CMOS

compatible SOI accelerometer with a low noise, low power, 0.25mm CMOS interface,"

in Proc. IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Syst. 2004, pp. 572-575.

· B. Vakili Amini, S. Pourkamali, and F. Ayazi, "A 2.5 V 14-bit Sigma-Delta CMOS-SOI

capacitive accelerometer," in Proc. IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. 2004, pp.314–315.

· B. Vakili Amini, S. Pourkamali, M. Zaman, and F. Ayazi, "A new input switching

scheme for a capacitive micro-g accelerometer," in Proc. Symposium on VLSI Circuits

2004, pp. 310-313.

· B. Vakili Amini, R. Abdolvand, and F. Ayazi, "Sub-micro-gravity capacitive SOI

microaccelerometers," Accepted paper, Transducers’05.

· M. Zaman, A. Sharma, B. Vakili Amini, and F. Ayazi, "Towards inertial grade

vibratory microgyros: A high-Q in-plane silicon-on-insulator tuning fork device," in

Tech. Dig. Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop 2004, Hilton

Head, pp. 384-385.

· Sharma, M. Zaman, B. Vakili Amini, and F. Ayazi, "A high-Q in-plane silicon-on-insulator

tuning fork gyroscope," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Sensors 2004, pp.467-470.

· M. Zaman, A. Sharma, B. Vakili Amini, and F. Ayazi, "The resonating star gyroscope,"

in Proc. IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Syst. 2005, pp. 355-358.