He conducted his postgraduate research in nanoscale MOSFET modeling at the Intel Penang Design Ivacaftor purchase Center, Penang, Malaysia. He recently obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2011 at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. He is a senior lecturer at UTM, a faculty member of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and a research member of the CoNE Research Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His present
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