Bio
Shirin Pourashraf is from Darreh Shahr, Ilam, Iran. She received the M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA, in 2018. Her field of studies was the design and test of low-voltage/low-power and high-performance analog/digital/mixed-signal building blocks. She was the recipient of Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, in 2017 and Outstanding Graduate Assistantship Award from Graduate School of New Mexico State University in 2018.
Shirin Pourashraf is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow Scholar in the Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL) focused on building a 100 ps CTR pre-clinical partial ring TOF-PET scanner; specifically, by exploring, and designing high speed low noise/jitter instrumentation, and data acquisition electronics. She is also designing an scalable side-readout electronic to detect Cherenkov radiation and improve TOF resolution in PET detectors using BGO crystals.
