Pouya Valizadeh

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Pouya Valizadeh (S97-M05-SM14) was born in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 1974. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees with honors from the University of Tehran and Ph.D. degree from The University of Michigan all in Electrical Engineering in 1997, 1999, and 2005, respectively. In January 2008 he joined the faculty of Concordia University, where he is now a Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From August 2005 to December 2007 he was an Assistant Professor with the CSEE department of West Virginia University.

During 1997-1999 he was with the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory of the University of Tehran where he invented a clustering-guided technique for automation of tissue segmentation in MR images of brain, using deformable models. From 1998 to 2000 he was a part time R&D engineer with PARS Electric Mfg co. in Tehran as a member of Telecommunication Systems Research Initiative.

During 2000-2005 he was with the Solid State Electronics Laboratory of The University of Michigan as a graduate student research assistant. From September 2000 to January 2002, he was conducting research on micro-electromechanical resonators (RF-MEMS), where he was involved in the design of first generation of Giga Hertz resonating micro-disks for UHF filtering and invented the first micromechanical charge-pump based on a new “sub-micron CMOS compatible”-switch array configuration for on-chip generation of 100V DC. From January 2002 to April 2005 he was with the III/V integrated circuits and devices group where he contributed to understanding the hot carrier phenomena in III-Nitride FETs and their low frequency noise and reliability characteristics.

Professor Valizadeh is mainly involved in research on wide-bandgap heterostructure-based devices. This covers design, fabrication, characterization and modeling of GaN-based FETs for Microwave power amplification and high temperature/high voltage digital applications. His research also covers MEMS technology in GaN and Silicon material systems. His work in these areas has been reported in about forty journal and conference publications. He is the author of Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview: From Basic Concepts to Novel Technologies, first edition (New Jersey: Wiley, 2016).