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Bio Sketch

 

Teaching

 

Research

 

 

 

 

    Research Interests

 

Dr. Awais is the director of NeuroInformatics Project at SEECS

Dr. Awais is the director of Analog and Mixed Signal Research Group at SEECS

 

·         ASIC and SoC Design

·         Embedded Systems and Solutions

·         Biomedical Signal Processing

·         Neuroprosthetics

 

   Current and Recent Projects

 

  1. Digitally Assisted Analog Circuits – sponsored by Higher Education Commission

 

2.    Design of a Non-Invasive Glucometer - sponsored by ICT Grassroots initiative

 

3.    Design and development of a Consumer Hybrid Electric Vehicle – sponsored by ICT Grassroots initiative

 

  1. Hardware-Software co-design of Embedded Controllers for High Efficiency Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs)

 

  1. Implantable VLSI systems for Compression and Communication in Wireless Hi-Density BioSensor Recording Arrays

(IEEE Spectrum writes a blog about this research “ Escaping the Data Deluge from Brain-Machine Interfaces” here)

 

  1. Channel Characterization of Implant to Body-Surface Communication

 

  1. On-Chip Feature Extraction for neural spike sorting

 

    Publications

 

Patents Filed

 

1.    Adaptive Capacitance Based Loop Filter for Phase Locked Loop, Muhammad Waseem Arshad, Awais Mehmood Kamboh, National University of Sciences and Technology, Patent No. 90/2014, Filed Feb 14, 2014

 

Journals

 

1.    Y. Yang, A. M. Kamboh, and A. J. Mason, “A configurable realtime DWT-based neural data compression and communication VLSI system for wireless implants,” Elsevier Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 227, pp. 140-150, Feb. 2014.

 

2.    S. Rehman, and A. M. Kamboh, "A Power and Area Efficient 8-Channel Neural Signal Front End for Biomedical Applications," International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 26-30, March 2013.

 

3.    A. M. Kamboh, and A. J. Mason, "Computationally Efficient Neural Feature Extraction for Spike Sorting in Implantable High-Density Recording Systems", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-9, Jan 2013.

 

4.    A. M. Kamboh, A. Mason, and K. G. Oweiss, “Analysis of Lifting and B-Spline DWT Implementations for Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 249–261, September 2008.

 

5.    K. G. Oweiss, A. Mason, Y. Suhail, A. M. Kamboh, and K. E. Thomson, “A Scalable Wavelet Transform VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Signal Processing in High-Density Intra-Cortical Implants,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1266-1278, June 2007

 

6.    A. M. Kamboh, M. Raetz, K. G. Oweiss, and A. Mason, “Area-Power Efficient VLSI Implementation of Multichannel DWT for Data Compression in Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 128-135, June 2007.

 

Conferences

 

1.    Masab Ahmad, Awais M. Kamboh, Rehan Hafiz, "Power & Throughput optimized Lifting Architecture for Wavelet Packet Transform”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2205-2208, Jun, 2014, Melbourne Australia.

 

2.    M. Saeed, and A. M. Kamboh, “Hardware Architecture for On-Chip Unsupervised Online Neural Spike Sorting,” Accepted for Publication at IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Diego, USA, pp. 1319-1322, Nov. 2013.

 

3.    M. Tayyab, A. M. Kamboh, and N. D. Gohar, “Digital Calibration of Delta Sigma Modulator using Variable Step Size LMS based Adaptive Line Enhancer” IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication, Karachi, Pakistan, Sep 2013.

 

4.    S. Rehman, A. M. Kamboh, "A New Architecture for Neural Signal Amplification in Implantable Brain Machine Interfaces", IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Biology and Medicine, Osaka, Japan, pp. 2744-2747, Jul 2013.

 

5.    S. Rehman, and A. M. Kamboh, "A Power and Area Efficient 8-Channel Neural Signal Front End for Biomedical Applications" International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit (ICSIC), Vancouver, Canada, April 2013.

 

6.    S. S. Afridi, A. M. Kamboh, N. D. Gohar, "Compensation of loop delay in a continuous-time Delta Sigma modulator through HRZ DAC feedback", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad, Pakistan, pp.1-4, Oct 2012.

 

7.    A. M. Kamboh, and A. J. Mason, “Channel Characterization for Implant to Body Surface Communication,”  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 913-916, May 2011.

 

8.    A. M. Kamboh, and A. J. Mason, “On Chip Feature Extraction for Spike Sorting in High Density Implantable Neural Recording Systems,” IEEE Conference on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, (BioCaS 2010), Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 13-16, Nov 2010. (Best Student Paper Award)

 

9.    Y. Yang, A. M. Kamboh, and A. J. Mason, “Adaptive Threshold Spike Detection Using Stationary Wavelet Transform for Neural Recording Implants,” IEEE Conference on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, (BioCaS 2010), Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 9-12, Nov 2010.

 

10. A. M. Kamboh, Y. Yang, K. G. Oweiss and A. J. Mason, “Design of a Configurable Neural Data Compression System for Intra-Cortical Implants,”  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2010), Paris, France, pp. 3473-3476, June 2010.

 

11.  A. M. Kamboh, K. G. Oweiss and A. J. Mason, “Resource Constrained VLSI Architecture for Implantable Neural Data Compression Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1481-1484, May 2009.

 

12.  F. T. Abu-Nimeh, A. Kamboh, M. Aghagolzadeh, U.-M. Jow, A. Mason, M. Ghovanloo, K. Oweiss, "A Highly Modular, Wireless, Implantable Interface to the Cortex," IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, (CNE 2009), Antalya, Turkey, pp. 375-378, April 2009.

 

13. M. A. Shetliffe, A. M. Kamboh, A. Mason, K. G. Oweiss, “Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Response Characteristics extracted from High-Density Intra-cortical Implant Data,” 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (EMBS 2007), Lyon, France, Pages 5358-5361, Aug 2007.

 

14. A. M. Kamboh, M. Raetz, A. Mason, K. Oweiss, “A High-Yield Area-Power Efficient DWT Hardware for Implantable Neural Interface Applications,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2007), New Orleans, Luisiana, USA, Pages 2371-2374. May 2007.

 

15. A. M. Kamboh, A. Mason, K. Oweiss, “A High-Yield Area-Power Efficient DWT Hardware for Implantable Neural Interface Applications,” 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, (CNE 2007), Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, Pages 212-216, May 2007.

 

16. A. M. Kamboh, A. Mason, “Comparison of Lifting and B-spline DWT Implementations for Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors 2006, Daejeon, Korea, Pages 811-814, Oct 2006.

 

17. A. M. Kamboh, G. Rafiq, H. A. Fakhar, S. R. Kazmi, “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitioning System”, IBCAST, Bhurban, Pakistan, June 2004.

 

Online Articles

 

1.    Masab Ahmad, Awais Kamboh & Ahmed Khan , “Non-invasive blood glucose monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy,” http://www.edn.com/design/medical/4422840/Non-invasive-blood-glucose-monitoring-using-near-infrared-spectroscopy, EDN Network, UBM Tech, October 16, 2013

 

2.    Our research on high-density neural data recorders was also featured in IEEE Spectrum blog

 

 

    Previous Projects

 

  1. “Code Compression for Embedded Processors”, Dec 2006, (Presentation)

 

  1. “Demonstration of Multitasking using ThreadX RTOS on Microblaze and PowerPC”, May 2006, (Report)

 

  1. “Efficient Hardware Implementation of Discrete Wavelet Transform”, May 2006, (Report)

 

  1. “Parallel Processing Techniques for Automatic Test Pattern Generation”, December 2005, (Report)

 

  1. “Baseband OFDM Modem on TMS5510C320” December 2005 (Report)

 

  1. “Weiner Ziv Video Coding”, May 2005.

 

  1. “Code Excited Linear Prediction “, May 2005.(Presentation),(Report)

 

  1. “Sensor Networks”, December 2004.(Report)

 

  1. “Cavity Design, Measurement of Orientation of a 3D Platform”, December, 2004.(Presentation)

 

  1. “Detection of Pulse with Unknown Arrival Time “, March, 2004. (Report)

 

 

 

Last Updated 14th August 2014.