Work Experiences& Professional Background
Mercedes-Benz AG, Luxury Cars Development
Feb. 2022–Present
E/E Systems Integration Specialist in RD/ECS
Electromagnetic resilience and conformity assessment of electronics in large electric cars
Proof of concept and leading the maturity evaluation of digital prototypes
Product validation using transfer function measurements in reverberation chambers
Request for changing wiring-harness, cable-routing, packaging, housing, interconnects and test-levels
Project management for industrialization and harmonization of deliveries by engineering partners
Standardization for systematic on-board integration of electric components including
Telematics, connectivity units, automated driving, system-on-chip, multi-gigabit Ethernet, on-board computers, zone controlers, radio equipment directive and multitone testing.
Daimler AG, Electric Cars Development
Sep. 2015–Feb. 2022
EMC RF Antenna Expert in RD/EIB-UBE
eDrive architecture, high-voltage technology, IGBT or SiC-MOSFET inverters, DC-DC converters, plug-in charging, electric vehicle batteries, HV cabling,
LV-harness routing, advanced driver assistance systems, GNSS, Lidar, radar, camera, steer-by-wire, radiation exposure safety measures, suppression filters, equivalent circuit parameter extraction, macromodeling
Automated near-field measurement, vector signal generator, RF power amplifier, real-time spectrum analyzer, vector network analyzer, impedance analyzer,
Cosite interference, field coupling, receiver desense, 1000Base-T1, inverse scattering, time reversal waves, active noise cancellation, robotic scanning, optical tracking.
Bosch Car Multimedia, Hildesheim, Germany
Sep. 15 Senior Electronic Layout Design of Navigation, Tuner and Infotainment
Continental Automotive GmbH (formerly SIEMENS VDO), Babenhausen, Germany
May 12–Aug. 15 [unlimited contract]
EMC Design & Hardware Development in Interior Instrumentation & Driver HMI Business Unit (I RD EE holistic information technologies & user experience) of Continental AG [a DAX30 company]:
Layout review of instrument clusters with touch panel color TFT LCD modules, head-up displays, haptic climate controls, and integrated center stacks in cockpit dashboard
High-speed module design staff for signal/power integrity, IC emission and IR drop analyses, time reflectometry
Radiative emissions (EMI) and susceptibility tests in anechoic chambers using horn, trilog, logper, bicon, helical, rod, loop, and duckfoot antennas
Immunity tests by bulk current injection (BCI), stripline, TEM cell, direct power injection (DPI), magnetic induction & conducted capacitive coupling clamps, electrostatic discharge (ESD), and burst surge disturbances on power supplies
Emission suppression using near-field scanner, ferrite chokes, decoupling capacitors, RC filtering, shielded housings, zener diodes
Full-wave field/circuit coupled simulations of 8 layers PCBs, e.g. VW-MQB with SMPS, CAN & LVDS interfaces using IBIS models
Training Timisoara, Singapour, Guadalajara Hubs for simulation tasks and Know-how transfer on accreditation to Wetzlar, Auburn Hills, Schwalbach subsidiaries
OEM precompliance tests for Toyota segment, BMW L7, Daimler W205, PSA DGTB78, Renault PF1540, Samsung L38, Nissan J32Q etc.
BMBF-program Mathematics for Innovation in Industry and Science (Projektträger Jülich), Germany
Oct. 10–May 12
Postdoc researcher in MoreSim4Nano Consortium, "Model Reduction for fast Simulation of new Semiconductor Structures in Nano- and Microsystems- Technology":
Matrix-free implementation of Finite Integration Technique (FIT) & Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) algorithms on 3D structured grid for the parallel solution of curl-curl wave equation on the largest HPC cluster in Hessen
Solving beyond 1500 millions and 100 millions of FIT unknowns on distributed- and shared-memory architecture
Structure-preserving Krylov-based moment-matching (Padé-via-Lanczos after partial realization)
Passivity-preserving balanced truncation of approximate Gramians using low-rank Cholesky factor ADI iterative solution of Lyapunov equations
Construction of system matrices for the partners
Partners: Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, TU Braunschweig/AG Numerik, TU Berlin/Matheon, TU Chemnitz, Uni Hamburg, Uni Augsburg, Fraunhofer-ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Infineon Technologies AG in Neubiberg, Computer Simulation Technology AG in Darmstadt, MunEDA GmbH in Munich, X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG in Erfurt.
Institut Theorie Elektromagnetischer Felder (TEMF), TU Darmstadt, CST AG / Dassault Systèmes, Germany
Dec. 05–Sep. 10
Ph.D. Fellowship & Graduate Research Assistant in RF group
"Wake field computations in linear accelerators using time-domain boundary element methods (TD-BEM)":
Time-domain electric, derivative electric, magnetic, combined field integral equations (EFIE, DEFIE, MFIE, CFIE) approaches
Developing software packages for transient 3D EM wave scattering analysis
Marching-On-in-Time (MOT) schemes with Lagrange or Spline interpolations
Marching-On-in-Order/Degrees (MOD) of Laguerre or Hermit polynomials recipes
Finite Difference Delay Modeling (FDDM) or Convolution Quadrature Methods (CQM)
Accelerated convolution products for multi-level Toeplitz matrices using time-space FFT
Wake field calculations in particle accelerator cavities
Running beyond 50000 DOF for several hundred time steps on a single 64-bit machine within couple of days
Communication Systems Department, Power System Control & Dispatching Center, Niroo Research Institute [the leading research organization of Iran Ministry of Energy], Tehran
Mar. 05–Nov. 05 [regular contract]
Research Engineer in feasibility study of pilot "Broadband over Power Lines" deployment on Tehran's distribution network:
Simulation of attenuation, delay, and mismatching effects in time-varying multipath channels
Modeling of EM radiations from Power Line Communication's access networks
Electromagnetic Research Laboratory [the most acknowledged division of Iran center of
excellence on radio communication and power systems with nearly annual 30 graduate affiliates], Electrical Engineering Department of Tehran Polytechnic
Nov. 02–Feb. 05
Research Assistant in Applications of Wavelets in Computational Electromagnetics:
Developing Fortran codes for numerically solving thin-wire EFIE using multiresolution wavelet expansion method or wavelet packet basis transform in conjunction with preconditioning and sparse-based iterative solvers, as well as simulation of ground grids and lightning return stroke channels through the antenna theory model.
Transmission Department, Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) [the leading research organization of Iran Ministry of Information & Communication Technology], Tehran
Mar. 02–Oct. 02
RF Engineer in LMDS Project: Design, implementation, and calibration of phase lock loop synthesizers with -150 dBc/Hz phase noise in 1 kHz offset; setting phase detector counters by ATMEL 8051 microcontroller, designing microstrip coupler and PCB layout as well as LPF to lock on VCO.
Electromagn. Research Lab. (EML), Elec. Eng. Dept., Tehran Polytechnic (AUT)
Jun. 01–Dec. 01
Internship in EM Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) techniques:
Design, implementation, and calibration of an experimental scanning setup for detection, sizing and characterizing of fatigue cracks and hidden flaws in metallic specimens by the (Pulsed) Eddy Current and Alternative Current Field Measurements including:
3Ap-p sinusoidal current source: Push-Pull amplifier, oscillator, and regulator
Pulse Generator: Power MOSFET, switching transistors, timer, and inducer
Phase Lock-in Amplifier: Differential amplifier, variable phase shifter, analog multiplier, HPF, buffer/inverters, sensor, etc.