Masoud Mashhouri *Ph. D. Candidate (Electrical Engineering)(since Jan. 2006) *M.A.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) (Carleton University Dec.2005) *B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering-Telecom.) (KNTU-1988 Tehran/Iran)

Email: masoudm (at) sce.carleton.ca Tel: +1 613 520-2600 ext. 1948 Fax:+1 613 520-5727 Office: Minto Centre (MC), Room 4038

Supervisor:

Professor Mohammed El-Tanany

Master Thesis Supervisor:

Professor Roshdy H. M. Hafez

Ph.D. Research Topic

Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems [ Impulse Radio]

(Experimental approach including H/W design)

Research Interests

Wireless Communications( fixed wireless access / Gigabit home network)

Signal Processing with emphasis on wireless communications

RF/Microwave circuit design

Radio Wave Propagation

Master’s Thesis topic

Broadband Point-to-Point Wireless Channels

Over Flat Land with low Antennas [Funded by CITO]

Publications

Measured Performance of point-to-point 802.11a WOCN 2005

Estimates of Ambient Effects on Point-to-Point Wireless Channels APCC 2007

UWB Wide-Slot antenna with exponential matching WWRF 2008

Others …in progress!

Industrial Experience [ Canada 1996-2002, Iran 1990-96]

- RF (VHF/UHF) and H/W design [4 years], Semiconductor industry [2 years],

Television manufacturing [2 years], H/W service sector [4 years].

Some of my Technical skills, Tools used at work and research:

Cadence( RF, High-Speed VLSI and the IC layout), AnSoft HFSS, AnSoft Designer

Microprocessors/Microcontrollers, Orcad, Protel [ PCB design], PC-interfacing for data-acquisition and automatic testing/calibration, H/W prototyping.

MATLAB/SIMULINK, C/C++ and Assembly…. and a variety of lab. Equipment …[ yes! I am hands-on type!]

Teaching Assistantship

-SYSC4602 Introduction to computer communications[ Fall 2004/ Fall2006]

-BIT2007 Fundamentals of wireless communication [Winter 2005/Winter 2006]

-SYSC 4005 Discrete Simulation/Modeling [Summer 2006]

-SYSC3600 Systems and simulation [Fall/Winter 2007]

- SYSC3601 Microprocessor systems[Winter 2008]

Personal

Interests

-Classical Violin. [Sebastian and me in action!]

[my music education up to: J.S. Bach’s Concerto for two violins and orchestra.]

-Soccer/ Biking / Painting [Water color/Oil/ Sketches].

My favorite links:

Haydn’s concerto for Trumpet: 1, 2, 3

Languages

-Kurdish [my mother language]…This is a link to media at my modest hometown!

-English/French/ Persian

-German [ this one is really rusty!]

Last Update: 2007-04-05