Rate My Professor Fouad Kiamilev

Fouad Kiamilev is Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1992, M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1990, B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1988, and B.A. in Computer Science in 1988. Prior to his current role, he served as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware from 1999 to 2003, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1997 to 1999, and Assistant Professor there from 1992 to 1997.

Professor Kiamilev leads the Custom VLSI Optimization Research Group (CVORG), which he founded in 1992 at the University of North Carolina as the CMOS VLSI Opto-Electronics Research Group. The group has designed integrated circuits for numerous high-profile projects, including DARPA programs such as CO-OP, FSOIA, VLSI PHOTONICS, STAB, PWASSP, NEOCAD, OPTO-CENTERS, OMNET, PONI, POSH, CHEETAH, ACN, PCA, 3DIC, VHESC I, VHESC II, TEST, and C2OI, as well as U.S. Army and Air Force initiatives like Optical Fuzing, HWIL Systems, 3-D LADAR Imaging, and Optical Interconnects. His research focuses on the design of integrated circuits for advanced sensor and driver applications, low-power optical and electrical data links, FPGA-based systems, and power conversion circuits for solar energy. Notable contributions include developments in LED infrared scene projectors for hardware-in-the-loop simulations and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, resulting in commercial licenses to NUVVE, NRG, and Milbank. Key publications include “A Modular Platform for Rapid IRSP Development” (T. Browning et al., IEEE Photonics Journal, 2019), “512 x 512, 100 Hz Mid-Wave Infrared LED Microdisplay System” (G.A. Ejzak et al., IEEE Journal of Display Technology, 2016), and “Evaluation of Performance, Repeatability, and Thermal Limits for Infrared LED Scene Projectors” (P. Barakhshan et al., 2020). In 2021, he received the University of Delaware College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising. Professor Kiamilev has also consulted for Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, Northrop-Grumman, Honeywell, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Aralight, Xanoptix, Stopflow, Silicon Wave, Opticomp, Optivision, and Applied Photonics.