Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering
Penn State University - 1989

M.S. - Computer Science & Engineering
Penn State University - 1985

B.E. (Distinction) - Electrical Engineering
The University of Bombay - 1983

L.E.E. (Distinction) - Electronics & Electrical Engineering
The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute - 1980

I. Syllaios and P.T. Balsara: Multi-Clock Domain Analysis and Modeling of All-Digital Frequency Synthesizers, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 153-156. 2011 - Publication

R. Venkatasubramanian, S. K. Manohar and P. T. Balsara: Ultra Low Power High Efficiency Charge Pump Design using NEM Relays, Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWCAS), 2011, pp. 1-4. 2011 - Publication

S. Modi, S. Askari, S. K. Manohar, N. Yanduru, P.T. Balsara and M. Nourani: “Automated GmC Filter Design: A Case Study in Accelerated Reuse of Analog Circuit Design,” Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop (DCAS ‘10), Richardson, Texas. Oct. 17-18, 2010, pp. 1-4. 2010 - Publication

J. Mehta, V. Zoicas, O. E. Eliezer, R. B. Staszewski, S. Rezeq, M. Entezari and P.T. Balsara: An Efficient Linearization Scheme for a Digital Polar Edge Transmitter, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 57, No. 3, March 2010, pp. 193-197. 2010 - Publication

V.K.K. Srinivasan, C. K. Singh and P. T. Balsara:  “A Generic Scalable Architecture for Min-Sum/Offset-Min-Sum Unit for Irregular/Regular LDPC Decoder,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI, vol. 18, No. 9, September 2010, pp. 11372-1376. 2010 - Publication

I. Bashir, R. B. Staszewski, O. Eliezer, K. Waheed, V. Zoicas, N. Tal, J. Mehta, M-C Lee and P. T. Balsara: “An EDGE Transmitter with Mitigation of Oscillator Pulling,” Proceedings of IEEE RFIC Symposium, Anaheim, CA, May 23-25,  2010, pp. 13-16. 2010 - Publication

J. Mehta, I. Bashir, V. Zoicas, Y. Wang, O. Eliezer, K. Waheed, M. Entezari, S. Larson, D. Shrestha, S. Rezeq, R. B. Staszewski, and P.T. Balsara: “Self-Calibration of a Power Pre-Amplifier in a Digital Polar Transmitter,” Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop (DCAS ‘10), Richardson, Texas. Oct. 17-18, 2010, pp. 1-4. 2010 - Publication

I. Syllaios, P. T. Balsara and R. B. Staszewski: Recombination of Envelope and Phase Paths in Wideband Polar Transmitters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, vol. 57, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 1891-1904. 2010 - Publication

M. Kunchamwar, D. Prasad, P. Hegde, P. T. Balsara and R. Sangireddy: Application Specific Instruction Accelerator for Multistandard Viterbi and Turbo Decoding, Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), San Diego, California, Sept. 13-16, 2010, pp. 34-43. 2010 - Publication

R. B. Staszeswki and P. T. Balsara: "All-Digital Frequency Synthesizer in Deep-Submicron CMOS," Japanese translation by Prof. Kobayashi, Sept. 2010. ISBN 978-4-7898-3122-2 2010 - Publication

Associate Dept. Head
University of Texas at Dallas [2012–Present]

Visiting Researcher
Texas Instruments [2003–2003]

Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2000–Present]

Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [1995–2000]

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [1989–1995]

HONORS & AWARDS:

1. Best Paper Award Nominee at the 25^th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI ‘12), Hyderabad, India, January 8-11, 2012
2. Best Teacher Award, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, April 2006.
3. 2^nd Best Entry Awardat the Chip Design Contest, 19^th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI ‘06), Hyderabad, India, January 3-7, 2006
4. Best Paper Award, 5^th International Workshop on System-on-Chip (IWSOC), Banf, Canada, July 20-24, 2005.
5. Best Paper Award,IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, October 2004.
6. The UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Award for Exemplary Contributions to Ph.D. Education and Research, April 2005.
7. The UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Service Award, August 2003.
8. National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1990
9. Gold Medal, Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay, India, 1980

Patents

1. L. R. Hunt, P. T. Balsara & D. Bhatia: “System, Apparatus and Methods for Controlling Multiple Output Converters,” Patent Filed, November 22, 2011

2. S. Kundapur & P. T. Balsara: “High Performance Bidirectional Single-Supply Level Shifter,” Provisional Patent filed, August 2010.

3. K. Kiasaleh & P. T. Balsara: “System, Method and Apparatus for Providing Communications that Conform to a Cellular Communication Standard and a Non-Cellular Communication Standard,” United States Patent Number 8,260,279, September 4, 2012

4. P. T. Balsara & K. Koshy: "Design of Basic Digital Logic Gates using Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs) and Standard MOSFETs" and "Design of a Binary Full Adder Circuit using Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs) and Standard MOSFETs," United States Patent Number 6,130,559, October 10, 2000.

Graduate Research

• Purpose of a Ph.D. program by Douglas Comer, Purdue University.
• Useful things to know about Ph.D. thesis research by H.T. Kung, Harvard University
• How to write a dissertation by Douglas Comer, Purdue University.
• Ibiblio: The Public's Library and Digital Archive

UT Dallas Spinoff Receives $250,000 from State Tech Fund

Researchers in UT Dallas’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science invented a control method and specialized algorithms that allow power converters to be more useful in power environments requiring high levels of stability and precision, or that must manage varying levels of voltage. The University licensed the technology to Cirasys for further development and commercialization. Dr. Louis Hunt, professor emeritus of engineering, is chief scientist at Cirasys and a co-inventor of the technology with adjunct professor Dr. Robert J. Taylor (PhD’04). Dr. Dinesh Bhatia and Dr. Poras Balsara, both professors of electrical engineering, are involved in the research and development.

Research Shines Light on Circuit Design Program

The integrated circuit design program at UT Dallas is turning heads: Three of the program’s papers were recently ranked among the top 50 downloads from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

The University’s integrated circuit design program has expanded in recent years to more than a dozen professors and several dozen graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

“This says the work we’re doing is highly relevant and top-quality,” said Dr. Kenneth K. O, a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas. “And it’s rare that one institution has this many papers in one research area at once.”

Government Boosts Funding for Wireless Project

Electrical engineering faculty Poras Balsara (left) and Kamran Kiasaleh hold the circuit board containing the software-defined radio technology that their team is developing. Other members of the team are (second row, from left) graduate students Xiaojiang Tian, Jay Shah and Ali Montazeri, and (third row, from left) grad student Gaurav Sureka, undergraduate Allen Webb and grad student Liu Zhengjie. Team members not pictured are grad student Essam Atalla, former grad student Beilei Zhang and associate professor of electrical engineering Dinesh Bhatia.

Government Boosts Funding for Wireless Technology Project at UT Dallas

The federal government has extended a contract with researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas to develop wireless communications technology that can easily skip from one standard to another, enabling ubiquitous connectivity.

The technology is being developed for emergency workers, but it’s expected to find eventual consumer applications as well.

Known as software-defined radio, the secret to the technology lies in software modules that run on an all-purpose processor.  That differs from the usual approach, in which cell phones are hardwired to work with just one type of signal.

UTD Professor, Student Receive Design Award at IEEE Conference

Dr. Poras Balsara, a professor and associate chair of electrical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), along with his doctoral student, Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian, received second place for their design paper at the joint meeting of 19th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on VLSI Design and 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Design held recently in India.