V. Clayton Lafferty Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D., 2001, Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., 1994, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
B.S., 1992, Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology
Research Interests
- Analog and digital VLSI circuit designs
- High-performance and low-power VLSI designs
- Microelectronics and Semiconductor Device Physics
- RF electronic circuits and systems
- Signal processing and embedded system programming
Selected Recent Publications
Abedi, Mohammad, Zahra Abedi, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Sameer Hemmady, and Edl Schamiloglu. "Impact of Low-Frequency RF Injection on Leakage Behavior in Nanoscale NMOS Devices" Electronics 15, 6: 1244, March 2026.
Landon Schmucker, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Luke Emmert, Wolfgang Rudolph, Vitaly Gruzdev, 鈥淒esign of a Low-Noise Subthreshold CMOS Inverter-Based Amplifier with Resistive Feedback,鈥� Electronics MDPI, Feb. 2025.
Jamil, C. Harmouche, N. Gabaldon, P. Zarkesh-Ha and M. Osi艅ski, "Dynamic Bias Characteristics of InGaAs/INP Avalanche Photodiodes Under Linear Mode Operation," 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Singapore, Singapore, 2025, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IPC65510.2025.11282366.
Mona Esmaeili, Sameer D Hemmady, Oameed Noakoasteen, Christos Christodoulou, Edl Schamiloglu, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, 鈥淚mpact of Waveform Modulation from Electromagnetic Interference Sources on Coupling to Digital Electronic Interconnects,鈥� IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility鈥揈MC Europe, Sept. 2024.
Ahmed, S. Hemmady, E. Schamiloglu and P. Zarkesh-Ha, "Predictive Modeling of Quasi-Static Electromagnetic Interference Effects on Electro-Optic Modulators," in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 425-435, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2023.3244898
Valenzuela, Wladimir, Antonio Saavedra, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, and Miguel 2022. "Motion- Based Object Location on a Smart Image Sensor Using On-Pixel Memory" Sensors 22, no. 17: 6538. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176538
H. Sule, Z. Abedi, E. Schamiloglu, S. Hemmady and P. Zarkesh-Ha, "Predictive Modeling for Estimating the Limits for Nonpersistent Effects in MOSFET Response Under Large Signal Gate Injection," in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1763-1771, Oct. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2020.3007736.
23 issued US patents
Honors and Awards
- 2026 UNM Rainforest Innovation Award
- 2019, ECE Outstanding Teacher Award
- 2017 and 2024 UNM Innovation Award
- 2017 ECE Lawton-Ellis Award
- 2014, ECE Outstanding Research Award
- 2009, ECE Outstanding Teacher Award
- 2003/2005, LSI Logic Best Author/Inventor Award
