Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0409
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0409

Email: maziar@ece.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-2098
Fax: (858) 534-1225

M. S., Electrical Engineering/Communication Systems/Optics, University of Alabama in Huntsville
M. S., Electrical Engineering/Control Systems, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
B. S., Electrial Engineerin9g/Electronics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Research Interests:

Subwavelength optics, polarization control, metal optics, opto-electronics

• Graduate research assistant, Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Network Administrator at the Engineering School, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
• Electronics Design Engineer, Payam Electronics, Mashhad, Iran
  

Skills and experience: Fiber optic gyroscopes

• FPGA/ASIC design
• Electronic instrumentation, data acquisition
• Network administration
• Speech and image processing
• Control systems
• MATLAB, Simulink, VHDL, SPICE, Protel, Labview, C, microcontroller assembly language
  

Teaching background:

Calculus, Electromagnetics, Control Systems laboratory supervision, Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Circuit Theory, C programming language

Publications:

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• M.P. Nezhad, K. Tetz, and Y. Fainman, "Gain assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on planar metallic waveguides," Opt. Expr., 12, 4072-4079 (2004).
  
  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• M.P. Nezhad, K. Tetz, U. Levy, and Y. Fainman, "Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on the Boundary of a Metal and a Gain Medium," IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, PR (2004).
  
  
• M. P. Nezhad, C. Tsai, L. Pang, W. Nakagawa, G. Klemens, and Y. Fainman, "Form birefringent retardation plates in GaAs substrates:Design, fabrication, and characterization," Proc. SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (2003).
  
  
• W. Nakagawa, G. Klemens, C.-H. Tsai, M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, "Eigenmode analysis of optical propagation in large-scale subwavelength periodic nanostructures," Proc. of CLEO, 302-303 Long Beach, CA (2002).