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Alex Fish - Post-Doctoral Fellow

Education

• Ph.D. 2006, Department of Electro-Optics Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• M.Sc. EE. 2002, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• B. Sc. EE. 1999, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Areas of interest

• Ultra-low power VLSI, Low-power image sensors, Mixed signal design, Smart CMOS image sensors, Active Pixels Sensors (APS) arrays, Systems-on-a-chip, Non-linear analog circuit design, Image processing, Neuromorphic design.

Awards

• 2006 – The Engineering Faculty Dean “Teaching Excellence” recognition, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
• 2005 – Young innovator award for outstanding achievements in the field of information theories and applications, International Journal “Information Theories and Applications”.
• 2005 - Best paper finalist award - Sensory Systems Track, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan
• 2004 - Best paper finalist award - IEEE Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 1997 - The Electrical Engineering Dean Award, Technion, Haifa, Israel
• 1998 - The Technion President’s Award, Technion, Haifa, Israel

International Activities

• Co-organizer of Special Session “Low Power Smart CMOS Image Sensors and Beyond”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, May, 2008
• Co-organizer of a Special Session on “Smart” CMOS Image Sensors, IEEE Sensors Conference, Atlanta, USA, October, 2007
• Sensory Systems Technical Committee member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Bio-medical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Neural Networks Technical Committee member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Reviewer for the IEEE Sensors Journal
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Journal
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Journal
• Reviewer for the Optical Engineering Journal
• Reviewer of Elsevier Sensors & Actuators Journal
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Journal
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Journal
• Reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
• Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
• Reviewer for the IEEE Sensors Conference
• Reviewer for the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

• A. Belenky, A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with Wide Dynamic Range”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express briefs, vol 54, no.12, December 2007.
• Y. Shoshan, A. Fish, X. Li, G. A. Jullien and O. Yadid-Pecht, "VLSI Watermark Implementations and Applications", to be appear in International Journal on Information Technologies and Knowledge, vol. 2, 2008.
• A. Fish, S. Hamami and O. Yadid-Pecht, "CMOS Image Sensors with Self-Powered Generation Capability", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 131-135, November 2006.
• E. Artemov, A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Image sensors for Security and Medical Applications", International Journal on Information Theory and Applications, vol. 14, No.2, pp. 114-127, 2006.
• A. Fish, L. Sudakov-Boresha and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Low-power Tracking Image Sensor based on biological models of attention", International Journal on Information Theory and Applications, vol. 14, No.2, pp. 103-114, 2006.
• A. Fish, A. Belenky and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Wide Dynamic Range Snapshot APS for Ultra Low-Power Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 729-733, November 2005.
• A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Bottleneck Problem Solution using Biological Models of Attention in high resolution tracking sensors", International Journal on Information Theories and Applications, vol. 12, pp.29-35, December 2005 (Young investigator award for the best paper).
• A. Fish, V. Milirud and O. Yadid-Pecht, “High speed and high resolution current winner-take-all circuit in conjunction with adaptive thresholding”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 131-135, March 2005.
• S. Diller, A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht, “Advanced Output Chains for CMOS Image Sensors Based on an Active Column Sensor Approach – A Detailed Comparison”, Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, Volume 116, Issue 2 , pp. 304-311, October 2004.
• A. Fish, D. Akselrod, O. Yadid-Pecht, “A “Smart Sensor” for High Precision Image Centroid computation via a Low Resolution Winner-take-all Circuit in Conjunction with a Dynamic Element matching Algorithm”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing journal, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 251-266, June 2004.
• A. Fish and O. Yadid Pecht, "Adaptive thresholding for visual attention and tracking systems", Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 6, pp. 1278-1279, June 2004.
• A. Belenky, A. Fish, S. Hamami, V. Milrud and O. Yadid-Pecht, " Method for expanding the dynamic range of the readout integration circuits for uncooled micro-bolometer sensors ", Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, No.6, pp.1274-1275, June 2004.
• A. Fish, D. Turchin, O. Yadid-Pecht, " An APS with 2-Dimensional winner-take-all selection employing adaptive spatial filtering and false alarm reduction", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Special Issue on Image Sensors, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 159-165, January, 2003.
• A. Morgenshtein, A. Fish, I. A. Wagner, “Gate-Diffusion Input (GDI) – A power-efficient method for digital combinatorial circuits, IEEE Transactions on VLSI systems, vol.10, no. 5, October, 2002.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

• A. Teman, S. Fisher, L. Sudakov, A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Autonomous CMOS Image Sensor for Real Time Targets Detection and Tracking", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, May 2008.
• M. Beiderman, T. Tam, A. Fish, G. A. Jullien and O. Yadid-Pecht, “A Low Noise CMOS Image Sensor with an Emission Filter for Fluorescence Applications”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, May 2008.
• A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Low Power “Smart” CMOS Image Sensors”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, May 2008.
• A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht and E. Culurciello, "Responsivity of Gated Photodiode in Silicon-on-Sapphire Technology", accepted special session on Smart Image Sensors, IEEE Sensors conference, Atlanta, USA, October, 2007.
• A. Fish, T. Rothschild, A. Hodes, Y. Shoshan and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Low Power CMOS Image Sensors Employing Adaptive Bulk Biasing Control (AB2C) Approach”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2834-2837, New-Orleans, USA, May 2007.
• A. Belenky, A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with Wide Dynamic Range", Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 314 – 317, Nice, France, December 2006.
• A. Fish, S. Hamami and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Self-Powered Active Pixel Sensors for Ultra Low-Power Applications", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 5310 – 5313, vol. 5, Kobe, Japan, May 2005. (Best Paper Finalist Award)
• A. Fish, E. Avner and O. Yadid-Pecht," Low-Power Global/Rolling Shutter Image Sensors in Silicon on Sapphire Technology", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp., 580 - 583 vol. 1, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.
• A. Fish, V. Mosheyev, V. Linkovsky and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Ultra Low-Power DFF based Shift Registers Design for CMOS Image Sensors Applications", 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 658 – 661, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.
• A. Fish, A. Spivakovsky, A. Golberg and O. Yadid-Pecht, “VLSI Sensor for multiple targets detection and tracking”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 543 – 546, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004. (Best Paper Finalist Award)
• A. Fish, V. Milrud and O. Yadid-Pecht, “High speed and high resolution current Loser-take-all circuit of o(N) complexity”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 234 – 237, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.
• A. Fish, A. Belenky and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Low Power Global Shutter CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor with Ultra-High Dynamic Range”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 149 – 152, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.
• A. Fish, V. Milrud and O.Yadid-Pecht, “High speed and high resolution current winner-take-all circuit in conjunction with adaptive thresholding”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. IV, pp. 852-855, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2004.
• A. Belenky, A. Fish, S. Hamami, V. Milrud and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Widening the dynamic range of the readout integration circuit for uncooled micro-bolometer infrared sensors”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. V, pp. 600-603, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2004.
• A. Fish, D. Akselrod, O. Yadid-Pecht, “An adaptive center of mass detection system employing a 2-D dynamic element matching algorithm for object tracking”, special session on Sensor Arrays for Visual Tracking and Navigation, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, pp. 778-781, Bangkok, Thailand, May, 2003.
• D. Askelrod, A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht, " A Mixed Signal Enhanced WTA Tracking System via 2D Dynamic Element Matching", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, pp. 755-758, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002.
• A. Fish, D. Turchin, O. Yadid-Pecht, " An APS with 2D WTA Selection Employing Adaptive Spatial Filtering, Bad Pixel Elimination and False Alarm Reduction", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 328-331, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002
• A. Morgenshtein, A. Fish, I. A. Wagner, “Gate-diffusion input (GDI) – a technique for low power design of digital circuits: analysis and characterization”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, pp. 477-480, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002.
• A. Morgenshtein, A. Fish, I. A. Wagner, “Gate-Diffusion Input (GDI) – A Novel Power Efficient Method for Digital Circuits: A Detailed Methodology”, Proc. 14th IEEE International ASIC/SOC Conference, pp.39-43, Washington DC, USA, September 2001.
• A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht “CMOS Current/Voltage Mode Winner-Take-All Circuit With Spatial Filtering”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 636-639, vol. 2, Sydney, Australia, May 6-9, 2001.

Invited Papers

• A. Belenky, E. Artyomov, A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht, “Wide dynamic range (WDR) imaging”, invited paper, The Neuromorphic Engineer, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 4., 2004.
• A. Fish, V. Milirud and O. Yadid-Pecht, “High-speed and high-precision current winner-take-all circuit", The Neuromorphic Engineer, Vol. 2, Issue 2, p. 6, 2005.

Book Chapters

• A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Active Pixel Sensor Design – from pixels to systems”, in “CMOS Imagers: From Photo-transduction to Image Processing”, Yadid-Pecht and Etienne-Cummings, 1 ed., pp. 99-136, Kluwer, 2004.
• A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Considerations for Power Reduction in "Smart" CMOS Image Sensors", to be published in “Emerging Technologies”, Ed. K. Inewski.

Patent Applications

• A. Morgenshtein, A. Fish, I. A. Wagner , “Logic circuit and method of logic circuit design”, US patent application no 10/406,751.
• E. Artyomov, A. Fish, B. Maliatski and O. Yadid-Pecht, “An configurable ASIC-based sensing circuit”, PCT application no. IL2006/001075.
• A. Fish, A. Morgenshtein, “Logic circuit and method of logic circuit design”, PCT application no. IL2006/000129.
• A. Belenky, A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, “Global shutter CMOS image sensor with wide dynamic range”, provisional application.
• Y. Shoshan, A. Fish and O.Yadid-Pecht, “A VLSI Implementation of a DCT watermark for CMOS image sensors”, provisional application.