AMJAD ALMATROOD
Address: Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 535338093
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Dec 2017 Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI, United States Aug 2013 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Gannon University
Erie, PA, United States Feb 2011 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering\ Electrical
Power
Jouf University Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia
WORK HISTORY
Dec 2018-Current Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
Jouf University Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia Sep 2019-Aug 2021 Head of Civil Engineering Department Jouf University
Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia Aug 2015-Oct 2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Wayne State University Detroit, MI, United States (Digital Logic I): Introduce Boolean algebra, logic gates, minimization of Boolean functions, basic digital circuits such as adder, subtractor, multiplexers, decoders, etc., sequential circuits, memories, PLAs, counters using different flip-flops such as D, T, R-S and J-K. Evaluate students’ performance, assignments, projects, and exams.
(Computer-Aided Logical Design and FPGAs): Explain advanced applications of Boolean algebra techniques, computer-aided logical design for large-scale circuits, threshold functions, and linear sequential machines.
Teach labs for design and implementation using Verilog and FPGAs. Evaluate students’ performance, assignments, projects, and exams.
Jan 2013-May 2013 Teaching Assistant
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Gannon University Erie, PA, United States (Digital Control): Explained challenges and technical concepts of different control techniques and evaluated students’ performance, assignments, and projects.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Best Poster Award (IEEE): Amjad Almatrood, Harpreet Singh, “A new Approach to the Development of Nano Digital Circuits’’, IEEE HT Conference, July 17, 2015.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
1. Almatrood, Amjad, Aby K. George, and Harpreet Singh. "Low-Power Multiplexer Structures Targeting Efficient QCA Nanotechnology Circuit Designs." Electronics 10, no. 16 (2021): 1885.
2. Almatrood, Amjad, and Harpreet Singh. "QCA circuit design of n-bit non-restoring binary array divider." IET The Journal of Engineering 2018, no. 7 (2018): 348-353.
3. Almatrood, Amjad, and Harpreet Singh. "Design of generalized pipeline cellular array in quantum- dot cellular automata." IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 17, no. 1 (2017): 29-32.
4. Amjad Almatrood and Harpreet Singh, “A Comparative Study of majority/Minority Logic Circuit Synthesis Methods for Post-CMOS nanotechnologies’’, Engineering, 9(10): 890, 2017.
5. Amjad Almatrood, Aby K George, Harpreet Singh, “On the Development of Multi-Input Multi- Output Nano Digital Circuits for Molecular Medicine’’, Proceedings on IEEE Intern. conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI 15), pp 873-878, Dec 2015.
6. Twal, Rula, Harpreet Singh, Amjad Almatrood, and Aby K. George. “On the development of Boolean algebra approach to terminal electromagnetic-compatibility of networks’’, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), 2016 IEEE International Symposium on, pp. 67-72, 2016.
7. Aby K George, Amjad Almatrood, Harpreet Singh, “Design of Arithmetic and Control Cells for a DNA Binary Processor’’, Proceedings on International conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI 15), pp 7-12, Dec 2015.
8. Anubhav Sharma, Shashank Kamthan, Aby K George, Amjad Almatrood, Harpreet Singh, Harinder Pal Singh, “On the Development of Chip to Control Laser Time for Cell-selective Arrhythmia Ablation of Heart’’, Proceedings on International Conference on Innovative Trends in Electronics Engineering (ICITEE-2016), Jan 2016.
9. Sairam Gowrisankar, Amjad Almatrood, Aby K George, Harpreet Singh, Harinder Pal Singh, “On the development of Arithmetic Processors’’, Proceedings on International Conference on Innovative Trends in Electronics Engineering (ICITEE-2016), Jan 2016
COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS
Feb 2020 Professional Ethics for Engineers - Workshop
• Described NSPE code of ethics.
• Explained and defined the concept of ethics.
• Identified ethical dilemmas and applied theoretical approaches to build a better society.
• Discussed the concept of social responsibility of engineers, professional responsibilities, and relationships between professional and personal morality.
