人民瓜报

Over 30 Years of Experience

1. Academic higher education: course development & teaching in areas of Physics, Electrical and Semiconductor Engineering
2. R&D in the Semiconductor IC industry: CMOS IC Device Modeling and Design
3. Renewable Energy Industry: Consulting, Design, Research & Installation of Solar Systems

Professional experiences in high-tech, semiconductor industry as principal engineer, executive manager, and director of R&D in the following companies:

1. , Principal Engineer
2. , Principal Engineer
3. , Director of Engineering
4. , Director of R&D
5. , Director of R&D
6. , Funder & CEO

Education

Master of Science in Physics (Experimental Solid-State Physics), PhD candidate

Bachelor of Science Physics with honor & EE, participated in Work-Study

Academia

Mahmoud has also been involved in academia for over 15years as an adjunct Physics & EE professor teaching undergraduate courses in General Physics, Modern physics. Optics, and Engineering in following community colleges and universities: , , , , , , , and 人民瓜报.

Renewable Energy

Founder of a startup company in Photovoltaic Solar Energy, , in 2007

Mahmoud has developed training courses and curriculum for photovoltaic solar energy systems, for both technical and sales/marketing fields.

He has been involved in conducting research, design, consultation, and installation of numerous PV solar energy systems for over 5 years.

First Year at West Valley

2007

Publications

Mahmoud has over 16 publications and 4 patents in Semiconductor Integrated Circuit design tools:

1. 鈥淎 New Simulation Method for NBTI Analysis in SPICE Environment鈥�, Rakesh Vattikonda, Yansheng Luo, Alex Gyure, Xiaoning Qi, Sam Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, Yu Cao, Kishore Singhal, Dino Toffolon, , San Jose, CA 2007
2. "Simulation of Interconnect Inductive Impact in the Presence of Process Variations in 90 nm and Beyond,", X. Qi, A. Gyure, Y. Luo, S. C. Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, and K. Singhal, , Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 696-698, Aug. 2006.
3. 鈥淢odeling and full-chip screening for inductive impact on VLSI interconnects,鈥� X. Qi and Mahmoud Shahram, accepted by 2006 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, Oct. 2006.
4. 鈥淓fficient sub-threshold leakage current optimization and layout migration for 90nm and 65nm ASIC libraries,鈥�, X. Qi, S. Lo, A. Gyure, Y. Luo, Mahmoud Shahram, K. Singhal, and D. B. MacMillen, to be published in , Sep. 2006.
5. "Measurement and Characterization of Pattern Dependent Process Variations of Interconnect Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance in Nanometer Technologies,", X. Qi, A. Gyure, Y. Luo, S. C. Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, and K. Singhal, .
6. 鈥淢easurement and Simulation of Interconnect Inductance in 90nm & Beyond鈥� Xiaoning Qi, Alex Gyure, Yansheng Luo, Sam Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, Kishore Singhal;
7. 鈥淪imulation and Analysis of Inductive Impact on VLSI Interconnects in the Presence of Process Variations鈥�, Xiaoning Qi, Alex Gyure, Yansheng Luo, Sam Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, Kishore Singhal; San Jose, CA. 2005
8. 鈥淎nalytical Modeling of Crosstalk Noise Waveforms using Weibull Function鈥� Alireza Kasnavi, Joddy Wang, Jindrich Zejda, Mahmoud Shahram; , 2004
9. 鈥淣oise Library Characterization for Large Capacity Static Noise Analysis Tools鈥� Alex Gyure, Alireza Kasnavi, Sam Lo, Peivand Tehrani, William Shu, Joddy Wang, Jindrich Zejda, and Mahmoud Shahram. ISQED 2005; Received Best Paper Award.
10. 鈥淟ook-Up-Table generation with Geometry & Temperature scaling directly from Silicon wafer鈥�, Mahmoud Shahram, Alex Gyure, Khosro Rouz, Published Synopsys Internal, May 2002
11. 鈥淐alibrating Simulation CAD tools for Nano-meter Designs鈥� Mahmoud Shahram, , June 1999
12. 鈥淚s Your Spice Model Accurate Enough?鈥� Mahmoud Shahram, Shawn Hailey, Published in Meta-Software Journal, March 1994
13. 鈥淒oes BSIM3v2 meet the requirement of good model? Mahmoud Shahram, Behnam Aghadaie, Alex Gyure, Published in Meta-Software Journal, Feb. 1994
14. 鈥淔requency & Temperature Dependence of Self-Backgating effect of GaAs MESFET鈥� Mahmoud Shahram, Don Jackson, Mike Zhang. DEC internal publication, July 1992.
15. 鈥淭emperature dependence of BJT Cut-Off Frequency鈥� Mahmoud Shahram, Timwah Luk of National Semiconductor. DEC internal publication, 1989.
16. 鈥淧ENGAN Journal of Science & Technology鈥� Founder & Publisher of PENGAN Journal of Science & Technology, Chief Editor. Published, popular scientific & technological articles in PENGAN (Similar to Scientific America). Tehran, Iran 1980-82

Patents

• 鈥淓fficient Generation and Representation of Statistical Sensitivity Coefficients for Variation-Aware Parasitic Extraction鈥�, E. Sutjahjo, K. Singhal, B. Kim, B. Biswas, A. Gyure, Mahmoud Shahram, 2005.
• Analytical Modeling of Crosstalk Noise Waveforms using Weibull Function, J. Wang, S. Lo, A. Gyure, Mahmoud Shahram, 2004.
• 鈥淢ethod and Apparatus for Characterizing the Propagation of Noise through a cell in an Integrated Circuit鈥�, A. Gyure. J. Zejda, P. Tehrani, W, Wang, S. Lo, Y. Lo, W. Shu, A. Kasnavi, Mahmoud Shahram. 2004. Patent No. US 7,007,252 B2
• 鈥淎ccurate and efficient characterization and modeling of the sequential cell Noise Immunity Criteria for Static Timing Simulators鈥�, J. Wang, S. Lo, A. Gyure, Mahmoud Shahram, 2004.