Biographical Sketch


Mehrdad Nourani received his B.S./M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1986 and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio in 1994. He served School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, as an Assistant Professor 1995-1998, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University as a Senior Instructor 1994-1995 and as a Visiting Assistant Professor 1998-1999. Since August 1999, he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), in Richardson, Texas, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research and teaching interests include VLSI/SoC design & test, design for reliability, fault diagnostic & prognostic methodologies for mission-critical healthcare and industrial applications, embedded system modeling & architecture, signal/image processing, data-driven analytics and application-specific circuits/systems for health monitoring.

Dr. Nourani and his students are currently engaged in three research areas: VLSI testing, embedded system design, and healthcare technology. In area of VLSI testing, his research, supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), focused on VLSI/SoC design & test, design for testability, testing signal integrity and process variation in nanometer VLSI, aging of MOS transistors, design for reliability and fault-tolerant methodologies for mission-critical applications. In the area of embedded system design, his research interests include special-purpose biomedical IC/system design, cache/memory architectures for high speed and low power applications, high-speed data traffic analysis & content inspection, and application specific processor architectures. Dr. Nourani is a co-founder of Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS) established as a center for collaborative research in broad areas of microelectronics, VLSI/system design & test, and CAD.

Dr. Nourani is also a co-founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) laboratory at UTD where he conducts interdisciplinary research focused on developing innovative healthcare technologies that can improve people's quality of life. His research interests in this field include special-purpose IC/system design for biomedical/biological applications, biometric signal/image sensing and processing, machine learning techniques for feature extraction, classification, and prediction. Dr. Nourani is a recipient of multiple awards, related to healthcare technology from Clark Foundation, National Science Foundation (NSF), Cisco Systems and Texas Medical Research Collaborative (TxMRC). Specifically, he has developed circuits/systems, signal/image processing algorithms and data analytics for various healthcare technology applications including artifact removal in wearable devices, alert systems and personalized data analytics for monitoring various medical conditions such as pressure ulcers (bedsore), epileptic seizures, diabetic neuropathy, heart attacks, sleep apnea and hydrocephalus.

Dr. Nourani has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and received multiple awards including a Best Paper Award at the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), a Best Paper Presentation Award at the 2007 International Test Synthesis Workshop (ITSW), a Best in Session Award in the 2012 Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Conference (TECHON), a Best Poster Award in the 2013 National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) and top 10% Meritorious papers published in 2016 in Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine. Dr. Nourani is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and the ACM SIGDA.