W. R. Bunn Chair Professor and Department Chairman, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, UAB Center for Integrated Systems

PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 1999

Website: http://www.eng.uab.edu/massoud/
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BEC 256
1150 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294
Telephone: 205 975-5751
Fax: 205 975-3505

Research Interests

Dr. Massoud leads research efforts in various areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering and their application to Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. His research interests also include Interconnect-Centric, Thermally-Aware, and Ultra-Low Power Digital Design Methodologies; Modeling and Variability-Aware Design for RF/Analog circuits and Systems; Modeling and Design of compressive Sensing-Based Sub-Nyquist Communications Systems; Modeling and design of nanophotonic structures for emerging computing applications; Modeling and design of graphene and nanotube-based devices for emerging computing applications

Selected Recent Publications

A. Nieuwoudt, J. Kawa, and Y. Massoud, “Crosstalk-Induced Delay, Noise and Interconnect Planarization Implications of Fill Metal in Nano-Scale Process Technology,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Vol.8, No 3, pp. 378 – 391, March 2010.
Y. Massoud,S. Kirolos, and K. Mohanram, “Analytical Model-Based Technique for Efficient Evaluation of Noise Robustness Considering Parameter Variations,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 27-34, August 2009. (Invited paper) .
A. Nieuwoudt, T. Ragheb, H. Nejati, and Y. Massoud, “Numerical Design Optimization Methodology for Wideband and Multi-Band Inductively Degenerated Cascode CMOS Low Noise Amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1088 - 1101, June 2009.
Soumya Eachempati, V. Naranyanan, A. Nieuwoudt, and Y. Massoud, “Predicting the Performance and Reliability of Future FPGA Routing Architectures with Carbon Nanotube Bundle Interconnect,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 64-75, April 2009.
T. Ragheb, A. Ricketts, M. Mondal, S. Kirolos, G. Link, V. Narayanan, and Y. Massoud, “Design of Thermally Robust Clock Trees using Dynamically Adaptive Clock Buffers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 56, no.2, pp. 374 – 383, Feb. 2009.
A. Hossieni, H. Nejati, and Y. Massoud,"Triangular Lattice Plasmonic Photonic Bandgaps in Subwavelength Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguide Structures", Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 013116 (2008), DOI:10.1063/1.2830018.
Y. Massoud and A. Nieuwoudt, “Investigation of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Structures for High Density Integrated Capacitors,” International Journal of Nanoparticles, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 96 - 107, September 2008. (Invited Paper) .
A. Nieuwoudt and Y. Massoud, “On the Optimal Design, Performance, and Reliability of Future Carbon Nanotube-Based Interconnect Solutions,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 2097 - 2110, August 2008.
A. Nieuwoudt, A. Hossieni, and Y. Massoud, "On the Design of Dielectric Strip Plasmonic Structures for Subwavelength Waveguiding Applications," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 7, no.2, pp. 189-196, March 2008.

Professional Activities

General Program Co-Chair, IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2009
Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2007
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2007-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2008-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, 2007-Present
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue of the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems I on ISCAS'09
Founding Associate Editor, NanoCom Journal, 2009-Present