FAST National University (NUCES), Mobile: +92 332 680 2749

Dept. of Electrical Engineering Skype: hassansaif194

Islamabad, Pakistan Nationality: Pakistani
Email: hassan.saif@nu.edu.pk

Hassan Saif PEC: ELECT/ 35814; CV updated: 10 May, 2020

SHORT Hassan Saif received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
BIOGRAPHY Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, and the M.S leading to Ph.D. in electronics
engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, in 2012 and 2020 respectively. He
has been involved in a number of research and industrial projects. His current research interests
include power management circuits, harvesting interface, DC-DC converters, switched capacitor
networks, and low power electronics.
RESEARCH Switched capacitor networks, Power Management Circuits, DC-DC Converters, Ultra-Low Power
INTERESTS AFE, Analog & Mixed Circuit IC Design, Digital Integrated Circuits Design, VLSI Design, Bio-
Medical Electronics, and Low Power Circuits.

EDUCATION M.S leading to Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University,
South Korea, Feb 2020
Dissertation: Design of Wide Voltage and Current Range Energy Harvesting and Power
Management Circuits for IoT Systems
GPA: 4.3/4.5
BSc in Electrical Engineering, UET, Lahore, Pakistan, 2012
Final Year Project: Implementation of 300V variable DC-DC Converter for Motor Drive Control
GPA: 3.6/4.0

INDUSTRIAL Newage Cables Private Limited, Lahore (Nov 2012 – Feb 2015)
EXPERIENCE Joined as “Quality Control Engineer”, then promoted to “Assistant Manager Production”.
Task Description (Quality Control Engineer)
ASSISTANT M ANAGER
PRODUCTION
 Supervise the cables and conductors testing according to IEC and WAPDA
2 YEARS & 4 MONTHS specifications.
 Assist Quality Control Manager during external party inspection and testing.
 Sampling and testing of in process items, to ensure compliance to the target
specification.
 Visit sites in event of complaints and fault detection at installed cables/conductors.
 Conduct training sessions according to ISO standards.
Task Description (Assistant Manager Production)
 Preparation of technical Job cards according to the technical specification of cables/
conductors.
 Prioritize orders according to specified timelines.
 Scheduling of Preventive & corrective maintenance work.
 Test reports checking to analyze and reduce failures.
 Analyze Monthly output of critical machines and provide proposals to
improve efficiency.
 Deal parties regarding the up-gradation and procurement of new machinery.

JOURNAL
PUBLICATIONS 1. Hassan Saif, Yongmin Lee, Hyeonji Lee, Minsun Kim, Muhammad Bilawal Khan, Jung-Hoon
Chun and Yoonmyung Lee. “A Wide Load Current and Voltage Range Switched Capacitor
DC–DC Converter with Load Dependent Configurability for Dynamic Voltage Implementation
in Miniature Sensors”. Energies 2018, 11(11), 3092; 08 Nov 2018. (JCR IF 2.707)
2. MB Khan, DH Kim, JH Han, H Saif, H Lee, Y Lee, M Kim, E Jang, SK Hong et.al.
“Performance improvement of flexible piezoelectric energy harvester for irregular human
motion with energy extraction enhancement circuit”. Nano Energy. Vol: 58, pp : 211-219, Apr
2019. (JCR IF 15.548)
3. Hassan Saif, Muhammad Bilawal Khan, Jongmin Lee, Kyoungho Lee and Yoonmyung Lee.
“A High-Voltage Energy-Harvesting Interface for Irregular Kinetic Energy Harvesting in IoT
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Systems with 1365% Improvement Using All-NMOS Power Switches and Ultra-low Quiescent
Current Controller”. Sensors 2019, 19(17), 3685; 24 Aug 2019. (JCR IF 3.076)
4. Muhammad Bilawal Khan, Hassan Saif, and Yoonmyung Lee, “A Piezoelectric Harvesting
Interface with Capacitive Partial Electric Charge Extraction for Energy Harvesting from
Irregular High-Voltage Input”, Energies 2018, 13(8), 1939; 15 Apr 2020. (JCR IF 2.707)

PEER REVIEWED 1. Hassan Saif, Y Lee, M Kim, H Lee, MB Khan, Yoonmyung Lee. “A wide load and voltage
CONFERENCE range switched-capacitor DC-DC converter with load-dependent configurability for DVS
PUBLICATIONS implementation in miniature sensors“. IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-
SSCC), Nov. 2017, Seoul, South Korea.
ALL ARE PUBLISHED IN TOP
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (IC)
2. H Lee, E Jang, H Saif, Y Lee, M Kim, MB Khan, Yoonmyung Lee. “A Sub-nW Fully
DESIGN CONFERENCES Integrated Switched-Capacitor Energy Harvester for Implantable Applications”. IEEE
European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sept. 2018, Dresden, Germany.
3. Hassan Saif, MB Khan, Yoonmyung Lee. “A 17V-to-45V Input 25μW-to-10mW Output
Power, 90.2%-Peak-Efficiency SC DC-DC Converter with Recursive Output Connection for
High-Voltage Energy Harvesting”. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
Apr. 2019, Texas, USA.
4. Muhammad Bilawal Khan, Hassan Saif, Yoonmyung Lee. “ Flexible Thin Film Piezoelectric
Energy Harvester with 0.38nA Quiescent Current and up to 562% Energy Extraction
improvement with Load Hiding for Powering Wearable Electronics with Irregular Human
Motion” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2019, Macau.

TOOLS,  Cadence Tools Suite

PACKAGES &  Hspice
LANGUAGES  Synopsis
 IC Compiler
 Encounter
 Labview
 Mathematical modeling using Matlab
 Orcad and Allegro PCB design
 MS-Office
 MS Visio
 Origin

PROCESS  TSMC 180nm Typical (Low) Voltage PDK

DEVELOPMENT  Samsung 28nm Typical (Low) Voltage
KITS (PDK’S)
 Magnachip 350nm High Voltage/Low Voltage PDK
EXPERTISE
 Towerjazz 350nm High Voltage/Low Voltage PDK
 Nuvoton 350nm BCD PDK

REFERENCES  Prof. Dr. Yoonmyung Lee, Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
(Office: +82-31-290-7979, yoonmyung@skku.edu )
 Prof. Dr. Jung-Hoon Chun, Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
(Office: +82-31-299-4596, jhchun@skku.edu )
 Prof. Dr. Jae-Hyuk Choi, Associate Professor Department of Semiconductor Systems
Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
(Office: +82-31-290-7979, choix215@skku.edu )
 Dr. Kyoungho Lee, Principle Researcher, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
(Office: +82-55-280-1689, khlee923@keri.re.kr )