Electronics and Electrical Engineering

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-082X

My research focuses on the development of miniature bioelectronic interfaces for applications in synthetic biology and biomedical engineering. I lead a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research group in these areas at the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS) within the School of Engineering.

Recent work developed a miniature implantable oxygen sensor, which has been extensively tested in vivo for its potential use in cancer radiotherapy treatment and for post-operative tissue monitoring. Currently, a UoE/NHS consortium is further developing this sensor with the aim of clinical application.

We also have a strong interest in the technology that supports synthetic biological biosensor systems. Specifically, we are developing an electrochemical platform, designed to enable multi-channel data readouts from cell-free systems.

• MSc Sensor and Imaging Systems, University of Glasgow, 2016 (Distinction & Class Prize)
• PhD Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, 2011
• BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2005

• WCSIM (Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers): Beloe Fellowship, 2018
• IEEE: Member
• Biochemical Society: Early Career Member

• Microelectronics 2 (ELEE08020): lecturing on microfabrication, assisting at tutorials, and student assessment
• MSc Electronics project (PGEE11065) and MSc Sensor and Imaging Systems project (PGEE11135): student supervision
• Analogue Mixed Signal Laboratory 3 (ELEE09032): teaching assistant
• BioSensors and Instrumentation (PGEE11040), Applications of Sensor & Imaging Systems (PGEE11136), and Edinburgh Summer Schools for Beihang University and University of North Carolina: Research guest lecturer

Other Information

www.oncphys.ed.ac.uk

https://modular-power-electronics.com/

• PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London (UK), 2013, awarded the “Eryl Cadwaladr Davies” Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department.
• MSc Control Systems from Imperial College London (UK), 2008, obtained with Merit.
• Diplôme "Ingénieur en Électronique" from ENSEA (Cergy, France), 2008.
• Diplôme Universitaire Technologique in "Génie électrique et Informatique Industrielle" from Institut Universitaire de Belfort-Montbéliard (Belfort, France), 2005.

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); societies: PELS, PESand CS
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

• Advanced Control for Electrical Power Engineering [MSc]
• Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids [4/MSc]

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.

* For PhD opportunities, please contact me *

• 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.