Mahdi Shabany

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology

Education

 

 

 

 

 

Research

·         VLSI Implementation of Biomedical Signal Processing Algorithms

·         VLSI in Digital Communications and Signal Processing

·         Architecture/Algorithm Design for 5G Communication Systems

·         ASIC/RTL Digital Circuit Design

·         Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Networks

Patents

·         Method and System for a low-complexity Soft-output MIMO Detection, US Patent No. 2012/0014483 A1, 2012.

·         Signal Processing Block for a receiver in Wireless Communications, US Patent No. 2011/0264721, 2011.

·         Low Complexity Optimal Soft MIMO Receiver, US Patent No. 2009/0232241 A1, 2009.

Publications

1. M. Shabany, D. Patel, M. Milicevic, M. Mahdavi, G. Gulak, A 70pJ/b Configurable 64-QAM Soft MIMO Detector, Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2018.

2. A. Malekmohammadi, H. Mohammadzade, A. Chamanzar, M. Shabany, B. Ghojogh, An Efficient Hardware Implementation for a Motor Imagery Brain Computer Interface System, Journal of Scientia Iranica, 2018.

3. M. Kazemi, M. Shabany, Z. Kavehvash, Spectral Redundancy Compensation in Multi-Static Millimeter-Wave Imaging,   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 2018.

4. P. Mandisanam,  M. seyedTalebi, M. Kazemi, Z. Kavehvash, M. Shabany, A Thorough Approach toward Cylindrical Millimeter-Wave Image Reconstruction using Sparse Antenna-Array, IET Image Processing, 2018.

5. M. Kazemi, M. Shabany, Z. Kavehvash, Spectral Redundancy Compensation in Multi-Static Millimeter-Wave Imaging, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'18), 2018.

6. H. Mirfarshbafan, M. Shabany, A. Amini, A. Nezamalhosseini, Near-ML Detection in Massive MIMO Systems with One-Bit ADCs: Algorithm and VLSI Design, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'18), 2018.

7. M. Abbasi, A. Shayei, A. Habiban, M. Shabany, Z. Kavehvash, A Machine Learning Approach for Material Classification in MMW Imaging Systems Based on Frequency Spectra, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'18), 2018.

8. A. Farsaee, Z. Kavehvash, M. Shabany, An efficient Millimeter-Wave Imaging Structure for Detecting Axially Rotated Objects,  IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 2017.

9. E. Mansouri, V. Amin Nili, Z. Kavevhvash, M. Fakharzadeh, M. Shabany, A. Khavasi, A low cost three-dimensional millimeter-wave holographic imaging system based on frequency scanning antenna, Applied Optics, 2017.

10. A. Esmaeili, M. Kachuee, M. Shabany, Nonlinear Cuff-less Blood Pressure Estimation of Healthy Subjects Using Pulse Transit Time and Arrival Time , IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurements, 2017.

11. A. Shayei, Z. Kavevash, M. Shabany, Improved-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Imaging Through Structured Illumination, Applied Optics, 2017.

12. H. Mirfarshbafan, M. Shabany, A. Nezamolhosseini, J. Emadi, A High-Throughput Low-Complexity VLSI Architecture for ZF Precoding in Massive MIMO, IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, 2017.

13. N. Mohammadzadeh, B. Ghojogh, S. Faezi, M. Shabany, Critical Object Recognition in Millimeter-Wave Images with Robustness to Rotation and Scale, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2017.

14. A. Chamanzar, M. Shabany, A. Malekmohammadi, S. Mohammadinezhad, Efficient Hardware Implementation of Real-time Low-Power Movement Intention Detector System Using FFT and Adaptive Wavelet Transform, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2017.

15. A. Esmaeili, M. Kachuee, M. Shabany, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Estimation Using Phonocardiogram, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'17), 2017.

16. A. Ardakani, M. Shabany, A Low-Complexity Fully Scalable Interleaver/Address Generator Based on a Novel Property of QPP Interleavers, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'17), 2017.

17. M. Shahrad, M. Shabany, Symmetric Split-Row LDPC Decoders, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'17), 2017.

18. M. Shabany, R. Doostnejad, M. Mahdavi, G. Gulak, A 38pJ/b Optimal Soft-MIMO Detector,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 2016.

19. M. Kachuee, M. M. Kiani, H. Mohammadzadeh, M. Shabany, Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation Algorithms for Continuous Health-Care Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2016.

20. M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, A 13 Gbps, 0.13 um CMOS, Multiplication-Free MIMO Detector, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (VLSI systems), 2016.

21. H. Abbasi, Z. Kavevash, M. Shabany, Improved CT Image Reconstruction Through Partial Fourier Sampling, Scientia Iranica, 2016.

22. A. Farsaee, J. Seyedtalebi, F. Mokhtari, Z. Kavevash, M. Shabany, Improved Two-Dimensional Millimeter-Wave Imaging for Concealed Weapon Detection Through Partial Fourier Sampling, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2015.

23. A. Chamanzar, M. Bahrani, A. Malekmohammadi, M. Shabany, Accurate Single-Trial Detection of Movement Intention Made Possible Using Adaptive Wavelet Transform, 37th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2015.

24. A. Ardakani, M. Shabany, An Efficient Max-Log Map Algorithm for VLSI Implementation of Turbo Decoders, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'15), 2015.

25. M. Kachuee, M. M. Kiani, H. Mohammadzade, M. Shabany, Cuff-Less High-Accuracy Calibration-Free Blood Pressure Estimation Using Pulse Transit Time, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'15), 2015.

26. M. Shahrad, M. Shabany, TTCN: a New Approach for Low-Power Split-Row LDPC Decoders, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'15), 2015.

27. A. Golnari, M. Shabany, A. Nezamolhosseini, G. Gulak, Design and Implementation of Time and Frequency Synchronization in LTE, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, 2014.

28. A. Ardakani, M. Shabany, A Novel Area-Efficient VLSI Architecture for Recursion Computation in LTE Turbo Decoders,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 2014.

29. K. Neshatpour, M. Shabany, G. Gulak, A High-throughput VLSI architecture for hard and soft SC-FDMA MIMO detectors, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 2014.

30. R. Ghanaatian, M. Shabany, M. Hasani, A High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for Real-time Optical OFDM Systems with an Efficient Phase Equalizer, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014.

31. R. Ghanaatian, M. Shabany, M. Sharifkhani, An Efficient High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for a Synchronization Block Appled to Real-Time Optical OFDM Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'14), 2014.

32. H. Esmaeelzadeh, M. Sharifkhani, M. Shabany, A Low-Power 10-Bit 40-MS/s Pipeline ADC Using Extended Capacitor Sharing, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'14), 2014.

33. M. Safavi, M. Shabany, A Real-time, Low-power Implementation for High-Resolution Eigenvalue-Based Spectrum Sensing, Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2013.

34. A. Ardakani, M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, An Efficient VLSI Architecture of QPP Interleaver/Deinterleaver for LTE Turbo Coding, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'13), 2013.

35. M. Khazraee, A. Zamani, M. Hallajian, P. Ehsani, H. A. Moghadam, A. Parsafar, M. Shabany, A Novel Hardware Implementation for Joint Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, and Gait Analysis Applied to Body Area Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2013.

36. A. Shayei, P. Ehsani, M. Shabany, Efficient Implementation of Real-Time ECG Derived Respiration System Using Cubic Spline Interpolation, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'13), 2013.

37. A. Golnari, G. Sharifan, Y. Amini, M. Shabany, A Low Complexity Architecture for the Cell Search Applied to the LTE Systems, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2012.

38. M. Safavi, M. Shabany, A VLSI Architecture for Multiple Antenna Eigenvalue Based Spectrum Sensing, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2012.

39. M. Shabany, A. Yousef, P. G. Gulak, A High-Throughput 0.13 um CMOS Lattice Reduction Core Supporting 880Mb/s Detection, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration,  2012.

40. M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, A Novel MIMO Detection Algorithm for High-Order Constellations in the Complex Domain, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, 2012.

41. M. Shabany, D. Patel, P. G. Gulak, A Low-Latency Low-Power QR-Decomposition ASIC Implementation in 0.13 um CMOS, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I,  2012.

42. K. Neshatpour, M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, A Low-Complexity High-Throughput ASIC for the SC-FDMA MIMO Detectors, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'12), 2012.

43. M. Shabany, An Efficient Architecture for Sequential Monte Carlo Receivers in Wireless Flat-Fading Channels, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (VLSI systems), 2011.

44. M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, Ultra High-throughput Architectures for Hard-output MIMO Detectors in the Complex Domain, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2011.

45. Yousef, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, Performance Analysis of Lattice-Reduction Algorithms or a Novel LR-Compatible K-Best MIMO Detector, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'11), 2011.

46. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, A 675Mb/s, 4x4 64-QAM, K-Best MIMO Detector in 0.13um CMOS, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, No. 99, 2010.

47. V. Smolyakov, D. Patel, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, A WiMAX/LTE Compliant FPGA Implementation of a High-Throughput Low-Complexity 4x4 64-QAM Soft MIMO Receiver, IEEE Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Nov. 2010.

48. M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, B. Vosough Vahdat, A High-Throughput VLSI Implementation of a Modified Complex K-Best Detector, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2010.

49. M. Mahdavi, M. Shabany, B. Vosough Vahdat, A High-Throughput, Low-Latency VLSI Realization of 4x4 Complex K-Best MIMO Detectors, CCECE 2010.

50. A. Yousef, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, VLSI Implementation of a Hardware-Optimized Lattice Reduction Algorithm for WiMAX/LTE MIMO Detection, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), 2010.

51. D. Patel, V. Smolyakov, M. Shabany, P.G. Gulak, VLSI Implementation of a WiMAX/LTE Compliant Low-complexity High-Throughput Soft-Output K-Best MIMO Detector, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), 2010.

52. D. Patel, M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, A Low-Complexity High-Speed QR Decomposition implementation for MIMO Receivers, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'09), 2009.

53. M. Shabany, E. Sousa, Downlink Resource Allocation for Autonomous Infrastructure-based Multi-hop Cellular Networks, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009.

54. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, A 0.13-μm CMOS, 655Mb/s, 64-QAM, K-Best 4x4 MIMO Detector, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC'09).

55. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, Efficient Compensation of the Nonlinearity of Solid-State Power Amplifiers Using Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Methods, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2008.

56. M. Shabany, K. Navaie, and E. Sousa, A Utility-based Downlink Radio Resource Allocation for Multi-service Cellular DS-CDMA Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2006.

57. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, A Systolic Architecture of a Sequential Monte Carlo-based Equalizer for Frequency-Selective MIMO Channels, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'08), pp: 67-72, 2008.

58. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, The Application of Lattice-Reduction to the K-Best Algorithm for Near-Optimal MIMO Detection, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'08), pp: 316-319.

59. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, Scalable VLSI architecture for K-best lattice decoders, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'08), pp: 940-943.

60. M. Shabany, K. Su, P. G. Gulak, A pipelined scalable high-throughput implementation of a near-ML K-best complex lattice decoder, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08).

61. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, Application of Sequential Monte Carlo to M-QAM Schemes in the Presence of Nonlinear Solid-State Power Amplifiers, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'07), best paper award nominee.

62. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, VLSI implementation of a sequential Monte Carlo receiver, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), pp: 3418-3421, 2006.

63. M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, An efficient architecture for distributed resampling for high-speed particle filtering, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), pp: 3422-3425, 2006.

64. M. Shabany, H. Shojania, J. Zhang, J. Omidi, P. G. Gulak, VLSI Architecture of a Wireless Channel Estimator Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC'05), pp: 468-472, 2005.

65. M. Shabany, K. Navaie, E. S. Sousa, Downlink Resource Allocation for Data Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks, IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC'04), 2004.

66. M. Shabany, E. S. Sousa, Joint Rate Allocation and Routing Scheme in Multi-hop Cellular CDMA Networks, IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC'04), pp: 442-448, 2004.

67. M. Shabany, K. Navaie, Downlink Resource Allocation for Delay Constraint Data Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, 2004.

 

Teaching

   Sharif University of Technology:

·         ASIC/FPGA Chip Design.

·         Digital VLSI Architectures.

·         VLSI.

·         Logic Circuits.

·         Analog Circuits.

 Contact Info

      Office:      Room 707, EE Dep. Main Building, Azadi Ave., Sharif University, Tehran, Iran.

      Email:       mahdi at sharif.edu

      Phone:     +98-21-66164366

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