Dr. Elias Kougianos Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering Technology Faculty eliask@unt.edu www.etec.unt.edu/public/eliask

Areas of Research:

• analog and mixed signal IC design and simulation
• VLSI architectures for multimedia
• application of Monte Carlo methods to the solution of PDEs.

Education :

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1997
• M.S., Physics, Louisiana State University, 1988
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1987
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Patras, 1985

Selected Publications:

Kougianos, E. & Mohanty, S. P. (2007). Metrics to Quantify Steady and Transient Gate Leakage in Nanoscale Transistors: NMOS vs. PMOS Perspective. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design.
Mohanty, S. P. & Kougianos, E. (2007). Simultaneous Power Fluctuation and Average Power Minimization During Nano-CMOS Behavioral Synthesis. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design.
Kougianos, E. & Mohanty, S. P. (2006). Effective Tunneling Capacitance: A New Metric to Quantify Transient Gate Leakage Current. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits on Systems, 2937-40.
Kougianos, E. & Mohanty, S. P. (2006, OCT). The Effect of Transverse Energy on Electronic Bound States in Heterostructure Quantum Wells. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 21(10), 1472-77.
Mohanty, S. P. & Kougianos, E. (2006, MAR/APR). Biosensors: A Tutorial Review. IEEE Potentials 25(2), 35-40.

Faculty Activities:

• industrial experience in semiconductor process integration, process and device simulation, and VLSI design.
• worked for Texas Instruments, Avanti Corporation and Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
• 27 refereed journal and conference papers