Dr Danial Chitnis

Danial is an academic at the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His research focuses on developing new tools and paradigms of AI-assisted design and test automation for Electronics engineering. Previously, his research focused on optoelectronics sensors, including Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays for biomedical and communication systems. He received his BSc in electronics engineering from Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran, in 2007, an MSc in Microelectronics and system engineering from the Computer Science at the University of Bristol in 2009, and a DPhil in engineering science from the University of Oxford Microelectronics group in 2013. During his DPhil studies, his work was based on various designs for Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays. He designed and tested SPADs for CMOS imaging, fluorescent measurements, and optical communications. He made the first analogue SPAD arrays, which had a compatible readout mechanism with conventional CMOS image sensors. His thesis on single-photon avalanche diodes for optical communications demonstrated that a SPAD receiver can achieve faster data rates than its deadtime.

In 2013, he then joined the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering to develop wearable optical brain imaging systems. He used sensitive photodetection and compact digital systems to achieve high-density multi-wavelength source-detector arrays.

In 2017, he joined the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh as a Chancellor’s Fellow in Electronics. He is part of the co-investigator team at QuantIC , the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging, developing detector arrays and systems for a variety of applications from fundamental quantum physics to consumer cameras. 

Danial is the programme director of MSc Electronics and teaches the IC design course and lab to the MSc students and undergraduates at the University of Edinburgh.

For further information and projects, please visit my personal Home Page.

For a full list of publications, please visit Google Scholar.

For an up-to-date list of projects and open-source activities, please visit EElab.dev.

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• DPhil in Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK, 2009-2013
• MSc in Advanced Microelectronics Systems Engineering, University of Bristol, UK, 2007-2008
• BSc in Electronics Engineering, Chamran University of Ahvaz, IRAN, 2002-2007

Programme Director for MSc Electronics 

Course organiser for the following courses:

• Analogue Electronics (Project) 4 - Semester two only
• Analogue VLSI Project (MSc)
• Analouge IC Design (MSc)

For a full list of publications please visit Google Scholar.