Meet the team
Dr. Hadi Heidari (PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA) is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. His Microelectronics Lab (meLAB) consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers and 8 PhD students, conducts pioneering research on magnetoelectronics and integrated microelectronics design for wearable and implantable devices.
Dr Heidari's research has been funded by major research councils and funding organizations including the European Commission, EPSRC, Royal Society and Scottish Funding Council. He is PI for EU H2020 MSCA-IF "WiseCure: Wireless Implantable Devices for Neurological Disorders Cure" and the €8.4M EU H2020 FET-Proactive “Hybrid Enhanced Regenerative Medicine Systems (HERMES)” projects. He is a member of the eFutures Steering Group (an EPSRC-funded network representing the UK’s electronic systems academic community). He is a member of EPSRC College, and also reviews proposals for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Dr Heidari is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Board of Governors (2018-2020), IEEE Sensors Council Member-at-Large (2020-2021), Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology and IEEE Access, Editor of Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, and Guest Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal, and Frontiers in Neuroscience. He is the General Chair of 27th IEEE ICECS 2020, Technical Program Chair of IEEE PRIME'19, and serves on the organising committee of several conferences including the UK Circuits and Systems Workshop (UKCAS), UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET) Conference, IEEE SENSORS’16 and ’17, NGCAS’17, BioCAS’18, PRIME’15, ISCAS'23, and the organiser of several special sessions on the IEEE Conferences. Dr Heidari has authored/co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals or conference proceedings and acts as a reviewer for several journals and conferences. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the 2019 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award, the Rewards for Excellence prize from the University of Glasgow (2018), IEEE CASS Scholarship (NGCAS’17 conference), Silk Road Award from the Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC’16), Best Paper Award from the IEEE ISCAS’14 conference, Gold Leaf Award from the IEEE PRIME’14 Conference. He has been an external examiner for multiple PhD theses, including students at Imperial College London, University of Southampton, and Aarhus University.
Dr. Rami Ghannam (BEng, DIC, MSc, PhD, MIET, MIEEE) is a Lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with research interests in the broad field of photonics. Following his PhD from Cambridge University in 2007, Dr. Ghannam has spent the past ten years in the field of photovoltaics. He has held previous industrial appointments at Nortel Networks, IBM Research GmbH and Starkon S.A.E. He received his BEng degree from King's College (top First Class Honours), as well as his DIC and MSc degrees from Imperial College London. Dr Ghannam is also a member of the Microelectronics Lab, where he is investigating the use of PV cells for energy harvesting applications in wearable and implantable electronic devices.
Dr. Vahid Nabaei (S’11–M’15) is a Lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with research interests Device Modelling and Simulation, Magnetic Sensors, and Biomedical Systems. He received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. After his PhD, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Azad University, Iran. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Microelectronics Lab, University of Glasgow, from 2019 to 2020, worked on the EU H2020 FET-Proactive funded project. He has been mainly working on finite element modeling of different magnetic sensors with the National Metrological Institute of Turin, Italy. His Ph.D. thesis was in the framework of the European Metrological Research Programme (EMRP) Project, MetMag. Research Fellows
Dr Rupam Das
Marie Curie Fellow
Dr Rupam Das received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Associate of Electrical Engineering with the University of Ulsan before joining to the meLAB. His current research interests include implantable devices and wireless power transfer.
Dr Finlay Walton
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow
Dr Finlay Walton hold a PhD in Chemical Physics from University of Glasgow and specialise in nanofabrication, manipulation of matter using electric fields, materials characterisation and nucleation. His research with HERMES involves the design and fabrication of implantable, flexible electronic devices for monitoring and stimulating neural activity.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Xianpeng Liang
Research Assistant
M.Sc., Mechatronics, University of Glasgow, UK, 2017 B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology, China, 2016. Research interests: - Neuromorphic chips - Wearable sensing systems Supervisors: Dr Heidari, Dr Vuckovic and Dr Ghannam
Dr Meraj Ahmad
Research Assistant
Meraj Ahmad received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2012 and recently submitted his (M.Tech. + PhD) dual degree thesis from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. In 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar with Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA, where he worked on circuits and systems for wearable devices. His research interests include analog & mixed-signal circuit design and embedded system design for industrial and biomedical applications.
PhD Students
Siming Zuo
PhD student (October 2017)
Eve McGlynn
PhD student (October 2019)
Kaung Oo Htet
PhD student (October 2017)
Jinwei Zhao
PhD student (January 2018)
Asfand Tanwear
PhD student (October 2018)
Yuchi Liu
PhD student (February 2019)
Amy (Mengyao) Yuan
PhD student (Jan 2020)
Yuchen Li
PhD student (starting Feb 2020)
Jungang (Judy) Zhang
PhD student (Oct 2020)
Ghazaleh M. Alinejad
PhD student (Oct 2020)
Huxi Wang
PhD student (Oct 2020)
Yuanjie Xia
PhD student (October 2020)
MEng/MSc Students
| MEng | Maria Cerezo Sanchez | Implantable SonoMyoGraphy |
| MEng | Jonathan Roarty | EMG signal processing using hardware-based AI |
Graduate Alumni
