Overview

Bio

Thaer is currently an R&D Electrical Hardware Engineer at Aneuvo, a MedTech Startup in the LA, California. He currently develops hardware for novel implantable neurostimulators and sensing devices. He graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2021 with an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering. He served as a graduate research assistant at the IMedE Lab at USC where he worked in the field of Analog Integrated Circuit Design for neural applications. He received his B.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Jordan, and a second M.Sc. degree in Microsystems Engineering from Masdar Institute in UAE (Now Khalifa University) in assistance with MIT in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He has a total of 8+ years of experience in the field of MedTech and R&D; 4 years in academic research, and 4 + years in the industry in the R&D of implantable Class II and Class III medical Devices. Some of his latest work involved working on: Hypoglossal Nerve stimulator implants, Transcutaneous neurostimulators, and GI tract ingestible implants. Thaer specializes in the field of neurostimulation, implantables, and sensing with a focus on HW design in Analog circuits and PCB design.

Research Projects and Portfolio

Course Projects and Internships

Microchip Fabrication of PDMS Scaffolds for Tissue Growth (Internship at UNIST)
  • VCO Design in 65nm (M.Sc. RF course)
  • Verilog Design of a computerized Rock-paper-scissors on an FPGA board utilizing a camera to compete (M.Sc. Digital Lab Course) with a human subject
  • Capstone Undergraduate project: Extracting ECG features from PPG signals using Machine Learning