Abdallah El-Falou

Abdallah El-Falou

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Education

  • University of Waterloo Graphic

    University of Waterloo

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    Specialized in Mixed-Signal IC Design

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    Activities and Societies: Biomedical Engineering Society (Ryerson Student Chapter), Institution for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ryerson Student Chapter), Men's Volleyball Tournament, Muslim Students' Association, Ryerson Engineering Competition

Publications

  • Direct-Conversion CMOS X-Ray Imager With 5.6um x 6.25um Pixels

    Electron Device Letters, IEEE

    We report a monolithic direct-conversion X-ray imager capable of detecting diagnostic level X-rays. The imager is constructed by combining a custom 32×32 CMOS four-transistor active pixel sensor (4T APS) array with an amorphous selenium photoconductive layer deposited on top of the array via a post processing step. A 4T APS with an explicit per-pixel integration capacitor is employed to increase the pixel dynamic range. Under dark conditions, an input-referred electronic noise of < 90…

    We report a monolithic direct-conversion X-ray imager capable of detecting diagnostic level X-rays. The imager is constructed by combining a custom 32×32 CMOS four-transistor active pixel sensor (4T APS) array with an amorphous selenium photoconductive layer deposited on top of the array via a post processing step. A 4T APS with an explicit per-pixel integration capacitor is employed to increase the pixel dynamic range. Under dark conditions, an input-referred electronic noise of < 90 electrons (rms) is estimated based on measured noise data for a 40-ms integration time. The very first X-ray images of copper and stainless-steel objects are included to demonstrate the performance of what is, to the best of our knowledge, a direct-conversion X-ray imager with the smallest pixel pitch reported to date.

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  • Active Cervix Phantom for Labour Induction Training

    Health Innovation Conference

    The underlying mechanisms for labour are still not well known. We're developing a computer simulation and active physical model to test ideas for how labour works, starting with the dynamics of the cervix.

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Courses

  • Anatomy

    BLG 700

  • Biomedical Image Analysis

    BME 872

  • Biomedical Instrumentation

    BME 674

  • Biomedical Signal Analysis

    BME 772

  • Biomedical Systems Modelling

    BME 809

  • Control Systems

    BME 639

  • Design of Bio-MEMS

    BME 804

  • Digital Imaging Circuits and Technology

    ECE 730

  • Electric Machines and Actuators

    EES 612

  • Fluid Mechanics

    BME 516

  • Integrated Digital Electronics (VLSI)

    ECE 445

  • Introduction to Software (Java)

    BME 506

  • Microprocessor Systems

    BME 538

  • Multi-variable Control Systems

    ECE 682

  • Physiology

    BLG 600

  • RF Integrated Circuits

    ECE 740T4

  • Register-transfer-level Digital Systems

    ECE 627

  • Signals and Systems I

    BME 532

  • Statistics

    MTH 410

  • Tissue Engineering

    BME 703

Projects

  • Amorphous Selenium High-Res CMOS Imager

    - Present

    - Designed external hardware (including FPGA) to interface with imager chip.
    - Wrote data acquisition software to interface with hardware and allow for data processing.

  • Using Wearable Technology to Fight Nicotine Addiction

    People's Choice Award at Hacking Health 2013.

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  • 3D Heart Model for Cardiac Activation Display

    - For fourth year engineering design project, working in a team to design and build microcontroller-PC based portable physical and virtual 3D heart models for cardiac activation display

    - Partial specifications are as follows:

    A) A LabView/MATLAB/C based GUI for processing the multichannel electrogram data (including data interpolation) and performing activation detection.

    B) A microcontroller based system for data processing and demux operation of the cardiac mapping…

    - For fourth year engineering design project, working in a team to design and build microcontroller-PC based portable physical and virtual 3D heart models for cardiac activation display

    - Partial specifications are as follows:

    A) A LabView/MATLAB/C based GUI for processing the multichannel electrogram data (including data interpolation) and performing activation detection.

    B) A microcontroller based system for data processing and demux operation of the cardiac mapping data.

    C) Portable physical and virtual 3D heart models with suitable hardware/LED display matrix.

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  • Cervix Simulator

    - Present

    The underlying mechanisms for labour are still not well known. We're developing a computer simulation and active physical model to test ideas for how labour works, starting with the dynamics of the cervix.

    Other creators
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  • Maze solving, line follower EEBOT

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    - Successfully programmed an EEBOT using CodeWarrior as a line follower that navigated a maze, remembered the solution, and retraced the correct path back to the starting point

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Honors & Awards

  • Ontario Graduate Research Award ($15,000)

    University of Waterloo

  • President's Graduate Scholarship ($10,000)

    University of Waterloo

  • NSERC General Graduate Studies Fund Award ($1,400)

    Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

  • Teledyne DALSA Componentware/CAD Award ($3,000)

    Teledyne DALSA

    Applicants must demonstrate novel use of microelectric components produced by Canadian suppliers
    and/or the development of novel applications relevant to Canadian industry. Combinations of hardware and software are highly desirable. Software components might include, for example: drivers, application code, and compilers.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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