Shahin Farshchi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles

Shahin was born in Berkeley, California on December 9, 1978. At the age of 13, his family relocated to Tehran, Iran, where his father, Prof. Mohammad Farshchi, joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Sharif University of Technology. Shahin returned to the United States in 1998 (with his younger brother soon to follow) and attended Diablo Valley College, after which he transferred to UC Berkeley in January of 2000, where he earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science with College of Engineering Honors in 2002. His younger brother, Rouin Farshchi, remained at UC Berkeley to pursue his Ph.D. in Materials Science, while Shahin decided to head south to UCLA to work under Professor Jack W. Judy. Shahin completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and 2006, repectively, and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include biological interface circuits, MEMS, and embedded communications systems. Shahin is also an associate at Lux Capital Management, a research-driven venture capital firm, where he is focused de novo, seed, and early-stage companies developing semiconductor, wireless, and alternative energy technologies. He is also co-founder of Vista Integrated Systems, a startup company developing wireless biological sensors for in-patient and out-patient care. His career interests are technology management and early-stage venture capital.

In his free time, Shahin enjoys weight lifting, jogging, and cooking.
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Shahin's Personal Journal

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2006
  Dissertation: An Embedded System Architecture for Wireless Neural Recordingdissertation
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2005
  Thesis: A MICA2-Enabled TinyOS-Based Wireless Neural Interfacethesis
• B.S., Electrical Engineering Computer Science with College of Engineering Honors, University of California, Berkeley, December 2002

• Design and implementation of a wireless neural recording device (UCLA, Present)
• Design of a modified Class A 1.9 GHz dynamic power amplifier (UCB, 2002)
• Static and dynamic characterization of a micro-mirror array for mask-less lithography applications (UCB, 2002)

• EE M150L - MEMS Fabrication Laboratory (Fall 2004)
• EECS 1 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering Laboratory (UCB, Spring, Fall 2002)
• EECS 43 - Introduction to Integrated Circuits Laboratory (UCB, Fall 2001)

• Winter 2006 – Present:Senior Associate, Lux Capital Management, New York, NY
  Performing technical due diligence on potential semiconductor/advanced materials (nano) investments, sourcing potential investment opportunities, evaluating investment strategies, performing on-site visits, participating in fund-raising meetings.

• Fall 2004 – Present: President, Vista Integrated Systems, Los Angeles, CA
  Startup company developing mobile wireless patient monitoring systems. Developing a pilot network for the UCLA Medical Center by leading a team of 4 engineers.

• Spring 2003: Design Engineer, Intelligent Control Systems, Tehran, Iran
  Design of a high-power discrete amplifier for synchronous motor drive applications.

• Summer 2001: Intern, Advanced Reliability Engineering, General Motors Corp., Warren, MI
  Developed test methods and product assurance plans for gasoline electric hybrid vehicle. Performed accelerated life testing on new automotive body control module.

• Summer 2000: Intern, Software Engineer, Telegenisys Inc., Pleasant Hill, CA
  Designed and implemented an online chat interface for online shoppers seeking live support using ColdFusion, among other significant web applications.

• Summer 1999: Intern, Software Engineer, Aurorasoft Inc., San Ramon, CA
  Participated in the implementation of GUI patient tracking application for Kaiser Permanente in C++.

• Summer 1998, Sales Consultant, Concord Nissan, Concrd, CA

• EE M150 - Introduction to MEMS
• EE M150L - Introduction to MEMS Laboratory
• EE M250A - MEMS Fabrication
• EE 241 - Advanced Integrated Circuit Design for Communications (UCB)
• EE 215A - Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• EE 215C - RF Integrated Circuit Design
• EE 215D - Analog Microsystem Design (Mixed-Signal IC Design)
• EE 250B - MEMS Physics
• MAE 289 - Nanofabrication
• MBA 266 - New Product Development
• MBA 245 - Advanced Etrepreneurial Operations
• MBA 298D - New Venture Initiation for Engieers and Scientists
• MBA 298 - Telecom Business Models (UCB)

1. Shahin Farshchi, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, ‚A TinyOS-Based Wireless Neural Interface, Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco , CA (Sep 1-5, 2004). paper
2. Shahin Farshchi, Paul H. Nuyujukian, Aleksey Pesterev, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, “A TinyOS-Based Wireless Neural Sensing, Archiving and Hosting System,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference on Neural Engineering, March 16-19, 2005, Arlington, VA, USA. paper
3. Shahin Farshchi and Jack W. Judy, “Low-Noise Amplifier Circuit for Embedded Electrophysiological Recording with Adjustable Gain and High-Pass Filtering,” Proceedings of the 16th Biennial IEEE University Government Industry Microelectronics Symposium, June 25-June 28 2006, San Jose, CA, USA. paper
4. Shahin Farshchi, Pauk H. Nuyujukian, Aleksey Pesterev, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, “A TinyOS-Enabled MICA2-Based Wireless Neural Interface,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, issue 7, July 2006, pp. 1416-1424. paper
5. Shahin Farshchi, Aleksey Pesterev, Wan-Lun Ho, and Jack W. Judy, “Acquiring High-Rate Neural Spike Data with Hardware-Constrained Embedded Sensors,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 30- September 3, 2006, New York City, NY, USA.paper
6. Ben Greenstein, Aleksey Pesterev, Chris Mar, Eddie Kohler, Jack W. Judy, Shahin Farshchi, and Deborah Estrin, “Capturing High-Frequency Phenomena Using a Bandwidth-Limited Sensor Network” ACM SenSys, November 1-3 2006. paper
7. Shahin Farshchi, Paul H. Nuyujukian, Aleksey Pesterev, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, “An Embedded System Architecture for Biosignal Recording,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 11, Iss. 6, Nov. 2007 pp. 611 - 618 paper
8. Shahin Farshchi and Jack W. Judy, “Neural-Signal Amplifier Circuit for Embedded Microcontroller-Based Electrophysiological Recording,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, paper
9. Shahin Farshchi, Pauk H. Nuyujukian, Eric Guenterberg, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, “An Embedded System Architecture for Wireless Neural Recording,” Accepted to the 2007 Conference on Neural Engineering paper
10. Shahin Farshchi, Pauk H. Nuyujukian, Eric Guenterberg, Istvan Mody, and Jack W. Judy, “An Embedded System Architecture for Wireless Neural Recording,” In preparation to submission to the Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitative Engineering paper
11. Shahin Farshchi, Dejan Markovic, Sudhakar Pamarti, Behzad Razavi, and Jack W. Judy, “Towards Neuromote: A Single-Chip, 100-Channel, Neural-Signal Acquisition, Processing, and Telemetry Device,” Proceedings of the 2007 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference paper