Engr. Dr. Naeem Maroof

Dr. Naeem Maroof got his BS degree in Computer Engineering from CIIT, Pakistan in year 2006. From March-2016 to September-2016, he was with CIIT Islamabad as a junior lecturer. He got his MS degree in Electronic Communication Engineering from EEE School of University of Nottingham, UK in year 2007. From November-2007 to August-2012 he was working as full time faculty member, Lecturer, at EE department of CIIT. From September-2012 to February-2016 he worked as graduate research scholar at Digital Systems Laboratory of Hanyang University from where he got his PhD degree. From March-2016 to August-2016 Dr. Maroof was working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ISDL of Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. From September-2016 to June-2017 he was with the ECE department of Carnegie Mellon University, USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Since September-2017 Dr. Maroof is working as Assistant Professor at Computer Engineering Department of KFUEIT, Pakistan. His research area is IC Design, Low Power Electronics, and Embedded Systems. To date, he has published 7 articles in reputed journals including IEEE and IET. He has worked on several industry funded projects during his PhD and Postdoc. He has expertise in VLSI / SOC CAD Tools and is currently leading GRICS (Group for Research in Circuits and Systems: link: cpe.kfueit.edu.pk) at CPE KFUEIT.
Dr. Maroof has interests in Physics and Spiritualism. He is sportsman as well, and has interest in Tennis, Soccer and Jokju.

N. Maroof, and Bai-Sun Kong, “10T SRAM Using Half-VDD Precharge and Row-Wise Dynamically Powered Read Port for Low Switching Power and Ultralow RBL Leakage”, IEEE Tran. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp.1193-1203, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2637918

N. Maroof, and Bai-Sun Kong, “Charge Sharing Write Driver for Low Power SRAM”, IET Circuits Systems and Devices, Accepted and online published first, September 2017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2017.0146

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “Charge sharing read port with bitline pre-charging and sensing scheme for low-power SRAMs”, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Dec. 2016. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1002/cta.2311

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “An energy efficient sub- threshold to above-threshold level shifter using a modified WCM”, International Journal of Electronics, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 1216-1227, July 2016. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2015.1092596

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “Energy efficient low static- power voltage level shifter”, IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 12, no. 18, pp. 20150633, Sept. 2015. DOI: doi.org/10.1587/elex.12.20150633

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “Charge sharing based 10T SRAM for low-power”, IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 20151033, Mar. 2016. DOI: doi.org/10.1587/elex.13.20151033

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “A fast and energy efficient two-stage level shifter using controlled WCM”, Automatika Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications, Accepted (April 2017) (Proof submitted). DOI: (not available yet)

N. Maroof, M. Sohail, and H. Shin, “Charge sharing based 10T SRAM for low-power”, IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 20151033, Mar. 2016. DOI: doi.org/10.1587/elex.13.20151033

S. Lee, N. Maroof, J. Kang and H. Shin “Hybrid System Level Power Modeling and Estimation of Embedded Processors”, Cyber Journals: Multidisciplinary Journals in Science and Technology, Journal of Selected Areas in Microelectronics (JSAM), February Edition, 2014, Volume 4, Issue 2.