Affiliations and roles
Dr. Akbar’s professional roles and affiliations
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
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Director of the Circuits Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
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Director of the SHINE Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.
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Member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques societies.
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Chair of the Integrated Circuits Session at the 30th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2022).
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Editor-in-Chief of the RFIC group at the 31st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2023).
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Reviewer for various academic journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2026, Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2021), Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2022), and Scientia Iranica.
OUR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
In-band full duplex systems
Wearable electronics
Ultra-low-power electronics
High-speed wireline transceivers
High-resolution phase shifters
New beamforming/steering techniques
Zero-temperature-coefficient (ZTC) oscillators
Integrated harmonic rejection mixers
Spectrally-adaptable spread-time CDMA low-IF transceivers
Self-calibrating phased arrays