Ali Melli, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Active in bioelectronics product R&D and manufacturing with a focus on implantable medical device
• Experience in modeling and simulating analog circuits using LTspice.
• Experience in planning and executing comprehensive testing and validation of hardware systems.
• Knowledge of medical device standards, including ISO 14708 and IEC 60601.
• Experience in designing Industrial IoT platforms with a focus on NFC, BLE and BMS.
• Experience with EMC pre-compliance testing with a focus on radiated emissions and immunity tests.

Saskatoon, Canada

• Involved in industrial electronics product R&D and manufacturing with a focus on human and equipment safety relays, controls and monitoring.
• Experience in modeling and simulating analog circuits (DC, AC, Transient) using LTspice to optimize design performance and reliability.
• Experience in designing a wide range of analog and digital systems (schematic and layout), including microcontroller circuits, external ADC/DACs, analog filters, PWM circuits, RS232/RS485 communication, USB, SD cards.
• Experience in designing power electronics drivers (Thyristor, MOSFET, IGBT) for various load types including inductive, capacitive, resistive, motors, and transformers.
• Experience in bare-metal programming and utilizing Real-Time Operating Systems on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers for efficient, reliable embedded system development.
• Experience in planning and executing comprehensive testing and validation of hardware systems.

Saskatoon, Canada

• Involved in digital signal/image processing with a focus on medical image reconstruction algorithms.
• Proficient in applying linear algebra concepts (such as matrix operations, eigenvalues/eigenvectors) to solve complex problems in areas like data analysis, machine learning, and signal processing.
• Skilled in using optimization techniques, including linear programming, Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers, and gradient-based methods, to solve real-world engineering efficiently.
• Experienced in leveraging tools like MATLAB, Python (NumPy, SciPy), and optimization solvers to implement and solve large-scale optimization problems.
• Collaborating with faculty in preparing publications.
• Attending conferences to present results and collaborate with other researchers.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Digital Signal/Image Processing

Thesis: Compressed Sensing Based Reconstruction Algorithm for X-ray Dose Reduction in Synchrotron Source Micro Computed Tomography.

Master Of Science - Msc, Digital Signal/Image Processing

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Electrical And Computer Engineering