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Maher Kayal

maher.kayal@epfl.ch http://elab.epfl.ch/

Nationality: Swiss

Expertise

Power and Energy Management Mixed-mode Circuits design Sensors interface and signal processiong CAD tools for mixed-mode circuits

Mission

The Electronics Laboratory (ELab) know-how has originally been built around CMOS analog and mixed-signal ICs design. It has progressively been extended to MOS device physics and modeling. Some results obtained in modeling and circuit design techniques are translated into specific software tools as a subset of the main commercial CAD environment. Today, the main focus of the Elab in the field of IC Design, is concentrated on: - Ultra low power sensors interface, - High efficiency energy harvesting, - Electronics for Smart buildings management, - Real time electronics dedicated to Power grids emulation for smart grid technologies, - Smart power design and modeling for automotive applications.
Maher Kayal received M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) in 1983 and 1989 respectively. He has been with the Electronics laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) since 1990, where he is currently a professor and director of the “Energy Management and Sustainability" section. He has published many scientific papers, coauthor of three text books dedicated to mixed-mode CMOS design and he holds eleven patents. His technical contributions have been in the area of analog and Mixed-signal circuits design including highly linear and tunable sensors microsystems, signal processing and green energy management.

Prizes and Honors

  • Electronics Letters journal Premium Award 2013, 
  • Outstanding Paper Award‐ IEEE Mixdes 2013 
  • Basil Papadias paper Award, IEEE Powertech 2013 
  • Best Paper Awards, Mixdes 2013 
  • Best Paper Awards, ICCAS 2012 
  • Outstanding Paper Award- IEEE Mixdes 2012.
  • Poland Section IEEE ED Chapter special award in 2011.
  • Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching- 2009. 
  • The William M. Portnoy Award at the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition , California Sept 2009. 
  • Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2009. 
  • High Quality Paper - IEEE Power Tech Conference June 2009. 
  • Best Paper Award - IEEE-Mixdes 2007. 
  • Best Paper Award - IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics - 2006. 
  • Best Application Specific Integrated Circuit at the International European Design and Test Conference ED&TC - 1997.
  • Ascom Award for the Best Work in Telecommunication Fields – 1990. Publications Books. Books: 
  • Methodology for the Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits and Systems, Marc Pastre & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher- (ISBN 1-4020-4252-3)-2006.
  •  Structured Analog CMOS Design, Danica Stefanovic & Maher Kayal. Springer Publisher-(ISBN 978-1-4020-8572-7)-2008. 
  • Linear CMOS RF Amplifiers for Wireless Applications, Maher Kayal, Springer Publisher. (ISBN 978-90-481-9360-8)-2010. 
  • Coeditor of Microelectronics Education Kluwer Academic Publishers. (ISBN 1-4020-2072-4). -2004.

Selected publications

Transient charge pumping as an efficient technique to measure low light intensity with PD SOI MOSFET

L. Harik, J-M. Sallese and M. Kayal
Published in Solid-State Electronics Journal, Volume 52, Issue 5, May 2008, Pages 597-605. in

Reducing the Number of Comparators in Multi-Bit S/D Modulators

Sergio Pesenti, Patrick Clement, Maher Kayal
Published in IEEE, TRANSACTION ON CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS Journal, Volume 1, NO. 11. 2008 in

Microelectronic emulation for power system computation.

Ira Nagel, Divitha Seetharamdoo, Laurent Fabre, Rachid Cherkaoui & Maher Kayal.
Published in 16th Power Systems Computation Conference July 14-18, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland. in

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students

Marc Pastre, Marija Blagojevic, Danica Stefanovic, Sergio Pesenti, Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Louis Harik, Fabrizio Lo Conte, Stefano Michelis, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Lysandre-Edouard Bonjour, Andrea Ajbl, Maria-Alexandra Paun, Sylvain Maréchal, Christian Kauth, Naser Khosro Pour, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Pietro Buccella, Denis Sallin, Guillaume Lanz, François Pierre Gaugaz, Georgios Lilis, Evgenia Voulgari, Paul Gosselin, Mathieu Coustans, Giacomo Ripamonti, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Farzan Jazaeri, Camillo Stefanucci