Siona Menezes

SIONA CARMEL MENEZES received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2005 and an MTech degree in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communication (D.E.A.C.) Engineering from the Electronics and Communication Department, Manipal Institute of Technology, India in 2007 and joined as a Lecturer in the same department from 2007-2010. She then worked as a Lecturer in the Engineering Department of AMA International University, Bahrain from 2011-2013, where she also held the position of Programme Head Informatics Engineering. She is currently pursuing a PhD from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, U.A.E.

Her research interests include microelectronics, semiconductor devices, reliability issues in MOS devices and circuits, neuromorphic circuits, systems, and applications.

Programme Head and Lecturer

September 2011 - May 2013

AMA International University - Salmabad, Bahrain

• Managing the Programme of Informatics Engineering in terms of the Courses, Faculty, and Students.
• Led and managed the programme of Informatics Engineering for the ABET Visit in October 2012.
• Addressed the concerns of the EAC team of ABET which included revision of the BSIE Curriculum and attaining the approval by the Curriculum Committee of the University.
• Evaluating Faculty for their performance and approving examination manuscripts and faculty clearance at the end of each trimester.
• Lectured 2nd and 3rd year engineering students on Advanced Digital Electronics, Electronics 1, Electronics 2, Electric Circuit Theory, Numerical Methods, and Analysis, Differential Calculus, Statistics, and Probability.
• Conducted labs for 2nd and 3rd year engineering students in Electronics and Electric Circuit Theory (Informatics and Mechatronics).
• Coordinator for Electronics, Electrical, and Math subjects.
• Member of the organizing team for the College of Engineering held a seminar on Robotics.
• Academic Advisor of 2nd and 3rd year, Informatics and Mechatronics Engineering students.

Lecturer in Electronics and Communication Engineering Dept.

August 2007 - February 2010

Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, India

• Prepared and delivered lectures on diverse topics related to 2nd-year engineering such as Digital Logic Design, Digital & Analog Circuits, and Electronic Circuits.
• Conducted laboratory experiments for 2nd and 3rd year engineering students in Digital Electronics, VHDL, Electronic Circuits, and Digital & Analog Circuits (Mechatronics).
• Convener of Sports for years 2007-2008 and Coordinator of Sports for years 2009-2010 for Faculty Club of MIT, Manipal.
• Member of the organizing committee of first International Conference of the Electronics Department.
• Organized Events at Department and Institute levels.

Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Dept., BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. U.A.E.

Expected in 02.2023

• Conducting a comprehensive literature review on the thesis topic, gathering relevant literature, gaining knowledge on EDA tools like Cadence virtuoso, OriginLab, etc., implementing memory and neuromorphic circuits on the software platforms, conducting reliability analysis when the neuron circuit is stimulated by synapse circuits and interpreting the results on the output spiking pattern, publishing the work in good quality SCI, SCOPUS indexed journals and conferences.
• Assisting in various laboratory sessions such as Digital Design, Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Microprocessors, etc., for B.E. students in the EEE department.
• Assisting MTech. and B.E. engineering students in research projects.

Thesis entitled “Design of Aging-Aware Circuit for Device Reliability Issues” has been submitted. It is currently under review

Published Research Articles during the course of the Ph.D.

1. S. M. Picardo, J. B. Shaik, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Enabling Efficient Rate and Temporal Coding using Reliability-Aware Design of a Neuromorphic Circuit,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, pp. 1-17, 2022.

2. S. M. Picardo, J. B. Shaik, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, "Device Reliability Affecting Coding Schemes in Neuromorphic Circuits," 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2022, pp. 1-6, .

3. Jani Babu Shaik, Sonal Singhal, Siona Menezes Picardo, and Nilesh Goel, “Impact of various NBTI distributions on SRAM performance for FinFET technology,” Integration, vol. 83, pp. 60-66, 2022.

4. S. M. Picardo, J. B. Shaik, N. Goel, and S. Singhal, “Integral impact of PVT variation with NBTI degradation on the dynamic and static SRAM performance metric,” International Journal of Electronics, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 293-316, 2021.

5. S. M. Picardo, J. B. Shaik, S. Sahni, N. Goel, S. Singhal, “Analyzing the Impact of NBTI and Process Variability on Dynamic SRAM Metrics Under Temperature Variations,” In Goel, N., Hasan, S., Kalaichelvi, V. (eds) Modelling, Simulation, and Intelligent Computing. MoSICom 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 659. Springer, Singapore, 2020, pp. 608-616.

6. J. B. Shaik, S. M. Picardo, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, "Impact of Reliability Issues and Process Variability in Neuromorphic Circuits," 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2022, pp. 1-6.

7. Shaik Jani Babu, Anish Vipperla, Haarica Vinayaga Murthy, Chintakindi Sandhya, Siona Menezes Picardo, Sonal Singhal, and Nilesh Goel, “Investigating the impact of BTI and HCI on log-domain based Mihalas-Niebur Neuron circuit,” In Goel, N., Hasan, S., Kalaichelvi, V. (eds) Modelling, Simulation, and Intelligent Computing. MoSICom 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 659. Springer, Singapore.

Under Review:

8. S. J. Babu, S. M. Picardo, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Reliability-Aware Design of Spike-Event Neuromorphic Circuits,” (under review).

MTech. in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communication Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, India

.May 2007 

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, India

May 2005 

Foundation Degree in Science, Mount Carmel College - Bangalore, India.

April 2001