Mahdi Shabany
Ph.D. Candidate
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 
University of Toronto
 
   
I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
I obtained my MASc degree from ECE Department at the University of Toronto in 2004 and my BASc degree
in Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002. 

 

Research :

Electronics (Ph.D.):

  • VLSI in Digital Communications and Signal Processing

  • VLSI Architecture/Algorithm Design for Broadband Communication Systems

  • ASIC/RTL Digital Circuit Design

  • Reconfigurable Architectures for ASIC Implementation of WiMAX PHY

  • VLSI Realization of Sequential Monte Carlo Estimation Methods

  •  Reconfigurable Architectures for Efficient Implementation of Particle Filters

Communications (M.A.Sc):

  • Resource Allocation in beyond 3G 
  • Multi-hop Cellular Networks
  • Algorithmic aspects of Wireless Networks

 

Patents :

 
1) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Particle Filtering as a compensator for nonlinearity of Solid-State Power Amplifiers”
    Provisional US patent, submitted May 2007. 
 
2) M. Shabany, R. Doostnejad, “A Low-Complexity Optimal Soft MIMO Receiver for WiMAX Applications”
    US patent No. 8910413, submitted May 2008.

 

Publications :

1) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “A Systolic Architecture of a Sequential Monte Carlo-based Equalizer for Frequency-Selective MIMO Channels”
    IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'08), 2008. 
 
2) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Efficient Compensation of the Nonlinearity of Solid-State Power Amplifiers Using Adaptive SMC Methods”
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2008. 
 
3) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “The Application of Lattice-Reduction to the K-Best Algorithm for Near-Optimal MIMO Detection”
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems  (ISCAS'08), 2008.
 
4) M. Shabany,  P. G. Gulak, “A Scalable VLSI Architecture for K-Best Lattice Decoders”
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems  (ISCAS'08), 2008.
 
5) M. Shabany, K. Su, P. G. Gulak, “A Pipelined High-Throughput Implementation of Near-Optimal Complex K-Best Lattice Decoders”
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08), 2008.
 
6) M. Shabany, K. Navaie, E. Sousa, "A Utility-based Downlink Radio Resource Allocation for Multi-service Cellular DS-CDMA Networks",
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007.
 
7) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “Application of Sequential Monte Carlo to M-QAM Schemes in the Presence of Nonlinear Solid-State Power Amplifiers”
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'07), 2007, Best Paper Award Nominee.
 
8) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “An Efficient Architecture for Distributed Resampling for High-Speed Particle Filtering”
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), 2006.
 
9) M. Shabany, P. G. Gulak, “VLSI Implementation of a Sequential Monte Carlo Receiver”,
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), 2006.
 
10) M. Shabany, H. Shojania,  J. Omidi, P. G.  Gulak, “VLSI Architecture of a Wireless Channel Estimator Using SMC Methods”,
    IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'05), 2005.
 
11) M. Shabany, K. Navaie, E. S. Sousa, “Downlink Resource Allocation for Data Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks”,
    IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC'04), 2004.
 
12) M. Shabany, E. S. Sousa, “Joint Rate Allocation and Routing Scheme in Multi-hop Cellular CDMA Networks”,
    IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC'04), 2004.
 
13) M. Shabany, K. Navaie, ”Downlink Resource Allocation for Delay Constraint Traffic in Heterogeneous Cellular CDMA Networks”,
    IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, 2004.

 

Teaching :

I taught ECE190, Discrete Mathematics, as the sole responsibility instructor, spring 2007, ECE Department at University of Toronto..

I have been teaching assistant for the following courses:

  • ECE 334: Digital Circuits                                                2007 - 2008
  • ECE 241: Digital Systems                                               2007
  • ECE 530: Analog electronics                                          2005                          
  • ECE 198: Communication and Design                            2004 - 2006                      
  • ECE 190: Discrete Mathematics                                     2004 - 2005                     
  • ECE 115: Electricity and Magnetism                               2004 - 2006
  • ECE 416: Communication Systems                                 2002                

 

Contact Info :

Office:
    Room 5000, Bahen Centre for Information Technology
    40 St. George street
    Phone: +1 (416) 978 4185

Mailing address:
    10 King's College Rd.
    Toronto, Ontario
    CANADA, M5S 3G4

Email: mahdi at eecg.toronto.edu