Rate My Professor Fouad Kiamilev

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.