Mohammad Hadi Izadi
Program
Junior Fellow Academy
Appointment
Junior Fellow, Nanoelectronics
Institution
McGill University
Country
Canada 
Mohammad Hadi Izadi will begin his CIFAR Junior Fellowship at McGill University in February 2011. He will be jointly supervised by Nanoelectronics Program Director Peter Grütter (McGill), Fellow Mark Reed (Yale) and Fellow Dipankar Sen (Simon Fraser). Hadi completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo’s Giga-to-Nanoelectronics (G2N) Centre in 2010, with Dr. Karim S. Karim as his thesis advisor. Before transferring his Ph.D. studies to Waterloo, Hadi did doctoral thesis work in Engineering Science at the Institute for Micromachining and Microfabrication Research (IMMR) at Simon Fraser University. He also holds an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. While a graduate student, Hadi participated in the interdisciplinary Leonardo Summer Institute and served as an organizer and program evaluator of a Peace It Together Palestinian/Israeli Youth Camp in Vancouver.
Hadi’s interests include nanofabrication, materials characterization, and the creation of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices through a combination of fabrication techniques, materials optimization and innovation, and fundamental experimental science. For his doctoral work, he designed, optimized, fabricated, and tested a novel digital medical X-ray imaging array. One focus of this research was to design and optimize a digital flat-panel imager capable of use with lower X-ray exposures, thus increasing patient safety. Another focus of this research was to create a combined radiographic and fluoroscopic flat-panel imager, which would allow for reduced hospital costs, both in terms of equipment acquisition and storage space. As a Junior Fellow in the Nanoelectronics program, Hadi’s research will use silicon nanowires and probe microscopy to “image” real binding configurations of various biomolecules for the first time.
Hadi’s interests include nanofabrication, materials characterization, and the creation of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices through a combination of fabrication techniques, materials optimization and innovation, and fundamental experimental science. For his doctoral work, he designed, optimized, fabricated, and tested a novel digital medical X-ray imaging array. One focus of this research was to design and optimize a digital flat-panel imager capable of use with lower X-ray exposures, thus increasing patient safety. Another focus of this research was to create a combined radiographic and fluoroscopic flat-panel imager, which would allow for reduced hospital costs, both in terms of equipment acquisition and storage space. As a Junior Fellow in the Nanoelectronics program, Hadi’s research will use silicon nanowires and probe microscopy to “image” real binding configurations of various biomolecules for the first time.