Dr Danial Chitnis

Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer

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Location

G.06a Scottish Microelectronics Centre

Engineering Discipline

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institutes

Integrated Micro and Nano Systems
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Danial is an academic at the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His research focuses on developing new tools and paradigms for AI-assisted automation in the design and testing of electronic circuits and systems, including transistor-level optimisations, accelerated circuit simulations, and design and verification. He is a co-Investigator in the APRIL AI Hub. Previously, his research focused on optoelectronic 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 University of Bristol in 2009, and a DPhil in engineering science from the University of Oxford in 2013. During his DPhil studies, he designed and tested SPADs for CMOS imaging, fluorescent measurements, and optical communications. He developed the first analogue SPAD arrays, with a compatible readout mechanism compatible 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 joined the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering to develop wearable optical brain imaging systems. He used sensitive photodetectors and compact digital systems to build 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 was part of the co-investigator team at QuantIC, the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging. 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.

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Programme Director for MSc Electronics

Course organiser for the following courses:

  • Analogue Electronics (Project) 4 - Semester two only
  • Analogue VLSI Project (MSc)
  • Analogue IC Design (MSc)
  • MSc Electronics Project and Thesis

For a full list of publications please visit Google Scholar.