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Director: Prof. Roman Genov Stanley Ho Professor in
Microelectronics Member
of Electronics Group and Biomedical
Engineering Group The Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering |
Email: roman[AT]eecg.utoronto.ca Mailing address: Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering 10 King's College Road Fax: (416) 971-2286 |
OPENINGS FOR NEW GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
(LINK)
LAB NEWS:
New major CIHR Project funded (2026): “Closing the
Loop on Epilepsy: Patient-Optimal Artificially Intelligent Neurostimulators for
Drug-Resistant Focal Seizures”
We are actively looking for new PhD students and
Postdoctoral fellows with expertise/interest in:
·
digital FPGA/ASIC design for energy-efficient ML
acceleration
·
analog and mixed-signal IC and SoC design for
biomedical applications
·
machine learning (various deep and shallow
models, edge AI, foundation models for neuroscience, model reduction techniques)
– jointly with University of Montreal
·
neuromodulation (neurostimulation to treat
epilepsy in humans, clinical trials of novel neuromodulation methods, adaptive
neurostimulation/DBS) – jointly with Toronto Western Hospital and Mayo Clinic
We are also actively looking for new PhD students and
Postdoctoral fellows with expertise/interest in our other projects:
·
analog, mixed-signal and digital IC designers
with expertise/interest in image sensors and camera design (with
applications to computational imaging, computer vision and with a possible focus
on commercialization/start-up/spin-off)
·
analog, mixed-signal and digital IC designers with
expertise/interest in in-memory computing for ML acceleration (in
particular, in charge-domain computing, near-field inductively-coupled wireless
links and chip-to-chip communication) – jointly with University of California
at San Diego (UCSD)
Please click on the link above to learn how to apply and
for more information.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2026
Two papers accepted at Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2026
M. Kanchwala, J. Xu, M. Abdolrazzaghi, W. Kim, G. O'Leary, Y. Huang, J. Ma, J. S. Filho, S. Nag, H. Cai, Q. Deng, W. Deng, A. Mutyala, T. Kumaresan, S. Ren, C. Lim, M. Movahed, H. Moradi, G. Eleftheriades, T. A. Valiante, J. T. Robinson, R. Genov, “A Split-Inference Intracortical Interface IC for Battery-Free mm-Scale Magnetoelectrically Powered Brain Implants,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2026.
X. Chen, Y. Xu, Y. Hou, H. You, J. Xu, Y. Huang, B. Liu, A. Hung, A.
G. Richardson, R. Genov, X. Liu, “An In-Ear Sleep
Modulation SoC Featuring a CNN-LSTM Accelerator with Long-Kernel Memory Reuse
and Runtime Dynamic Quantization,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June
2026 (Led by Prof. Xilin Liu).
Paper accepted at CVPR 2026
D. Verma, A. Qiu, R. Rangel, A. Barman, H.
Yang, C. Hu, F. Zhang, R. Genov, D.B. Lindell, K.N. Kutulakos, and A. Mariakakis,
"Lumosaic: Hyperspectral Video via Active
Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels," in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2026.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2025
Prof. Roman Genov appointed
as the Stanley Ho Professor in Microelectronics (Endowed Chair) 2025-2029
Two papers accepted at ISSCC 2025
J. Xu, M.
Kanchwala, M. Abdolrazzaghi, H. Cai, Y. Huang, J. Ma,
C. Lim, L. Xu, S. Gong, W. Deng, Q. Deng, J. Che, S. Nag, J. Olorocisimo, R. Singh, Y. Wang, J. Sales Filho, M. Mohaved, H. Moradi, G. Eleftheriades,
T. Valiante, R. Genov,
“Event-Based Spatially Zooming Neural Interface IC with 10nW/Input
Reconfigurable-Inverter Fabric and Input-Adaptive Quantization,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC), San
Francisco, Feb. 2025.
Y. Huang, B. Liu, Y. Hou, J. Xu, H. You, A. Hung, S. Ghosh,
E. Liu, N. Yang, J. Ma, H. Cai, L. Kondrataviciute,
Q. Deng, S. K. Kalia, A. G. Richardson, P.-H. Hsieh, R. Genov,
and X. Liu, “A Neuroprosthetic SoC with Sensory
Feedback Featuring Frequency-Splitting-Based Wireless Power Transfer with
200Mb/s 0.67pJ/b Backscatter Data Uplink and Unsupervised Multi-Class Spike
Sorting,” IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
San Francisco, Feb. 2025 (Led by Prof. Xilin Liu).
Annual Lab Picnic, 2024
Paper accepted at Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2024
R. Rangel, X. Sun, A. Barman, R. Gulve, S. Bajic, J. Wang, H. Wang, D. Lindell, K. Kutulakos, R. Genov, “23,000-Exposures/s 360fps-Readout Software-Defined Image Sensor with Motion-Adaptive Spatially Varying Imaging Speed,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2024.
Prof. Roman Genov receives Connaught Innovation Award 2024
Our latest computational camera live demonstration was
well received at ISSCC 2023
Reunion with current and former students at ISSCC 2023
Two papers accepted at ISSCC 2023
R. Gulve,
R. Rangel, A. Berman, D. Nguyen, M. Wei, M. Sakr, X.
Sun, D. B. Lindell, K. N. Kutulakos, R. Genov,
“Dual-Port CMOS Image Sensor with Regression-Based HDR Flux-to-Digital
Conversion and 80ns Rapid-Update Pixel-Wise Exposure Coding,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC), San
Francisco, Feb. 2023.
J. Xu, J. S. Filho, S. Nag, L. Long, C. Tejeiro, E. Hwang, G. O'Leary, Y. Huang, M. Kanchwala, M. Abdolrazaghi, C. Tang, P. Liu, Y. Sui, X. Liu, J. Zariffa, R. Genov,
“Fascicle-selective Bidirectional Peripheral Nerve Interface IC with 173dB FOM
Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs and 1.38 pJ/bit
Frequency-Multiplying Current-Ripple Radio Transmitter,” IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
San Francisco, Feb. 2023.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2022
Paper accepted at Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2022
R. Gulve, N. Sarhangnejad, G. Dutta,
M. Sakr, D. Nguyen, R. Rangel, W. Chen, Z. Xia, M.
Wei, N. Gusev, E. Y. H. Lin, W. Sun, L. Hanxu, N.
Katic, A. Abdelhadi, A. Moshovos, K. N. Kutulakos, R. Genov, “A 39,000 Subexposures/s CMOS Image Sensor with Dual-tap
Coded-exposure Data-memory Pixel for Adaptive Single-shot Computational
Imaging,” Symposium on VLSI Circuits,
Honolulu, June 2022.
Prof. Roman Genov receives Connaught Innovation Award 2022
Paper accepted at ISSCC 2021
M. ElAnsary, J. Xu, J. S. Filho,
G. Dutta, L. Long, A. Shoukry, C. Tejeiro, C. Tang,
E. Kilinc, J. Joshi, P Sabetian,
S. Unger, J. Zariffa, P. Yoo,
R. Genov, “Multi-modal Peripheral Nerve Active Probe
and Microstimulator with On-chip Dual-coil Power/Data Transmission and 64
2nd-order Opamp-less ΔΣ ADCs,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC), San
Francisco, Feb. 2021.
Prof. Roman Genov receives Connaught Innovation Award 2021
Paper accepted at ISSCC 2020
G. O'Leary, J. Xu, L. Long, J. S. Filho, C. Tejeiro, M. ElAnsary, C. Tang, H.
Moradi, P. Shah, T. A. Valiante, R. Genov, “A Neuromorphic Multiplier-less Bit-Serial
Weight-Memory-Optimized 1024-tree Brain State Classifier and Neuromodulation
SoC with an 8-Channel Noise-Shaping SAR ADC Array,” IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
San Francisco, Feb. 2020.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2019
C2B Computational Camera Live Demo successfully
presented at ISSCC 2019
N. Sarhangnejad, N. Katic, Z. Xia, N. Gusev, G. Dutta, R. Gulve, M. Monero, M. Wei, H.
Haim, D. Stoppa, K. Kutulakos,
R. Genov, “Dual-Tap Pipelined-Code-Memory
Coded-Exposure-Pixel CMOS Image Sensor for Multi-Exposure Single-Frame
Computational Imaging,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference, Feb. 2019.
More demo videos from our C2B camera can be found here
Prof. Roman Genov receives Connaught Innovation Award 2019
Clinical Validation of an Intelligent Implantable Neurostimulator for
Treating Drug-resistant Epilepsy
Two Papers Accepted at ISSCC 2019
M. R. Pazhouhandeh, G. O’Leary, D. Groppe, T. Valiante,
N. Verma, R. Genov, “Adaptively Clock-boosted
Auto-ranging Responsive Neurostimulator for Emerging Neuromodulation
Applications,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference, Feb. 2019.
N. Sarhangnejad, N. Katic, Z. Xia, N. Gusev, G. Dutta, R. Gulve, M. Monero, M. Wei, H.
Haim, D. Stoppa, K. Kutulakos,
R. Genov, “Dual-Tap Pipelined-Code-Memory
Coded-Exposure-Pixel CMOS Image Sensor for Multi-Exposure Single-Frame
Computational Imaging,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits
Conference, Feb. 2019.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2018
Paper Accepted at ECCV 2018
M. Wei, N. Sarhangnejad,
Z. Xia, H. Ke,
N. Gusev, R. Genov, K. N. Kutulakos, “Coded Two-Bucket Cameras for
Computer Vision,” European Conference on
Computer Vision, Sept. 2018.
Paper Accepted at Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2018
M. R. Pazhouhandeh, H. Kassiri, A.
Shoukry, I. Weisspapir, P. Carlen, R. Genov, “Artifact-Tolerant Opamp-less
Delta-Modulated Bidirectional Neuro-Interface,” Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2018.
Paper Invited to the Special Issue of JSSC on Best
Papers on Technology Directions from ISSCC 2018
G. O’Leary, D. Groppe, T. Valiante,
N. Verma, R. Genov, “NURIP: Neural Interface
Processor for Brain State Classification and Programmable-Waveform
Neurostimulation,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018.
Jack Kilby
Award for Outstanding Student Paper, ISSCC 2018
H. Kassiri, M. R. Pazhouhandeh, M. T.
Salam, J. L. P. Velazquez, R. Genov, “All-Wireless
64-channel 0.013mm2/ch Closed-Loop
Neurostimulator with Rail-to-Rail DC Offset Removal,” IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2017.
Two Papers Accepted at ISSCC 2018
G. O’Leary,
M. R. Pazhouhandeh, D. Groppe, T. Valiante,
N. Verma, R. Genov, “A Recursive-memory Brain State
Classifier with 32-Channel Track-and-Zoom Δ2Σ ADC and Charge-balanced
Programmable-waveform Neurostimulators,” IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits
Conference, Feb. 2018.
M. ElAnsary, N. Soltani, H. Kassiri, R. Machadoa, S.
Dufour, P. Carlen, M. Thompson, R. Genov, “50nW 5kHz-BW Opamp-less
ΔΣ Impedance Analyzer for Brain Neurochemistry Monitoring,” IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2018.
Annual Lab Picnic, 2017
Paper Invited to the Special Issue of JSSC on Best
Biomedical Papers from ISSCC 2017
H. Kassiri, M. T. Salam, M. R. Pazhouhandeh,
N. Soltani, J. L. Perez Velazquez, P. L. Carlen, R. Genov, “Rail-to-Rail-Input
Dual-Radio 64-channel Closed-Loop Neurostimulator,” IEEE Journal of
Solid-State Circuits, Oct. 2017.
Best Paper
Award, IEEE TBioCAS 2017
R. Shulyzki, K. Abdelhalim, A. Bagheri, M. T. Salam, C. M. Florez, J. L. Perez Velazquez, P. L. Carlen, R. Genov, “320-Channel Active Probe for High-Resolution
Neuromonitoring and Responsive Neurostimulation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and
Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 34-49,
Feb. 2015.
Best Paper
Award in Biomedical Systems, IEEE ISCAS 2016
H. Kassiri, N. Soltani, M. T. Salam,
J. L. P. Velazquez, R. Genov, “Battery-Less
Modular Responsive Neurostimulator for Prediction and Abortion of Epileptic
Seizures,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May
2016.
Discovery
Accelerator Award, NSERC 2017
Major Grants Awarded in 2017
“Transport-Aware
Image Sensors,” Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC),
Discovery Grant
“Artificially
Intelligent Neurostimulators for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy,” Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR), Project Grant
“Heterogeneous
Integration of High-Density Analog Crossbar for Advanced Data Processing,”
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Strategic Project
Grant
“Wireless
Neurophotonic Probes for the Interrogation of Neurons in Memory Circuits,” CIHR
and NSERC, Collaborative Health Research Project Grant
SELECTED PAST NEWS:
Connaught
Innovation Award 2016
Best Paper
Award, IEEE BioCAS 2011
H. Jafari,
R. Genov, “CMOS Impedance Spectrum Analyzer with
Dual-Slope Multiplying ADC,” IEEE
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Nov. 2011.
Best Student
Paper Award, IEEE ISCAS 2009
A. Nilchi, J. Aziz, R. Genov, “CMOS
Image Compression Sensor with Algorithmically-Multiplying ADCs,” IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2009.
Best Paper
Award in Sensory Systems, IEEE ISCAS 2009
A. Nilchi, J. Aziz, R. Genov, “CMOS
Image Compression Sensor with Algorithmically-Multiplying ADCs,” IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2009.