Theme 2 – Wireline and Lightwave Interconnects

Zhihui Gao is a third-year Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Prof. Tingjun Chen and Prof. Yiran Chen at electrical and computer engineering, Duke University. He received his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Fudan University in 2020. His research interests include cyber physical system and the next generation of network systems.
 

Tom (Zhenzhou) is a second-year Ph.D. student in department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University advised by Professor Tingjun Chen. Tom’s research interests include Wireless Network System Design, Edge Computing, Digital signal processing; Wireless networks with a focus on 5G, millimeter-wave communications and massive MIMO.

Zhenguo Wu obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University with a focus in designing accelerator architectures using silicon photonic technologies. His research interests also include reconfigurable network designs for data center and high-performance computing systems, as well as optical network design for deep learning applications.

Zehao Wang is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He received his B.Eng. degree in Information Science from Zhejiang University, China, in 2019, and an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020. His research interests are in the areas of next-generation optical-wireless networks with a focus on integrated sensing and communication systems and radio-over-fiber technologies.

Yuyang Wang is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Lightwave Research Laboratory at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, supervised by Prof. Keren Bergman. His research interests include the modeling, design, and optimization of ultra-broadband, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable optical interconnects and systems for data-centric applications. Prior to joining Columbia, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He earned his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2015. He was a Visiting Intern at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2019 and a Design Engineering Intern at Cadence Design Systems in 2018.

Yiyang Zhi obtained his B.S. in Physics at Case Western Reserve University, where for his thesis he worked on deterministic tuning of random lasers for integrated photonics and biomedical applications. He is currently a second year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley working with Professor Ming Wu on active integrated photonics for quantum processors using trapped ions systems. He has another research thrust on incorporating on-chip logic onto optical switches in a zero change photonics stack to tackle the electrical I/O problems in optical MEMs. 

I'm a senior Ph.D. student at University of California Berkeley and a Graduate Student Researcher at Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). My area of focus is millimeter wave sensing and communication system and IC design. I worked on millimeter wave transmitter design with focus on high-linearity DAC and mixer design. Currently I'm engaged in research on 140GHz FMCW radar with RF-cancellation for self-interference/leakage.

I am a 6th year PhD student in Prof. Vladimir Stojanovic's group in Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC.) My research interest is clock and data recovery circuit is high-speed serial link.

Xiaohui Lin received her M.S. degree from Oregon State University and B.S. degree from South China University of Technology, both in Electrical Engineering. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with Oregon State University. Her research interests include energy-efficient high-speed wireline communication systems.

Xiao Zhang is a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, working with Prof. Tingjun Chen. His research interests are optical wireless communication, mobile computing, AIoT, HCI and mmWave.

Weiyang “Frank” Wang is a third-year Ph.D. student working with Professor Manya Ghobadi at MIT CSAIL. He focuses on networked systems for machine learning, reconfigurable network topologies, and traffic engineering.

Wei Tang received the B.S. degree from National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2011, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2018 and 2019. He was a Visiting Ph.D. Researcher with Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and a Graduate Research Intern with Intel Laboratories, Hillsboro, OR, USA. He is currently an Assistant Research Scientist with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan. His research interests include the high-speed, energy-efficient, and flexible VLSI designs for communications, machine learning, and robotics.

I am currently first year Ph.D. student in Duke ECE supervised by Prof. TingJun Chen and Prof. Yiran Chen. I am working on applying machine learning acceleration on wireless communications.

Utku Soylu received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2018, and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the same department. In summer 2021, he joined Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA as an mm-Wave ASIC research intern. In summer 2022, he joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA as a quantum research intern. His current research interests include circuit, module, and system design for 200-300 GHz wireless communication links, as well as cryo-CMOS circuit design for quantum computers. He received Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2022 and the UCSB ECE department Herb Kroemer Dissertation Fellowship in Spring 2023.

Utkarsh received his Bachelors in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2021. He received his Master's degree from the University of Michigan in 2023. Utkarsh represented India at the Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad 2016 securing the Honourable Mention Award, and was an awardee at the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad 2015. His primary research interests are in the mathematical foundations of coding and information theory and their applications to wireless communications and data storage.

Thomas Rodriguez graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Computer Engineering, and is currently a 2nd year PhD Student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Dr. Srabanti Chowdhury’s Lab. His current research focuses on device fabrication and thermal management of GaN HEMTs.

Talha Akyildiz received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Sunjin Choi is a Ph.D student at UC Berkeley under Prof. Vladimir Stojanovic. He is currently working on burst-mode microring-based DWDM photonic link for optical circuit switch-based network fabric. His research interests include electronic-photonic integrated system designs, novel network fabric architecture explorations and automated chip design methodologies.

Sujay Patel is a graduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign under the guidance of Professor Pavan Hanumolu. His research focuses on ultra-low power circuit architectures for short-reach links in Multi-Chip Modules. With a bachelor’s degree in physics and applied mathematics, Sujay's interdisciplinary background fuels his innovative approach. Sujay's interests lie in analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, high-speed wire-line communication, signal integrity, quantum computing, and optoelectronics. Sujay is interning with Analog Devices for the summer of 2023. He looks forward to sharing his insights and engaging with peers at the annual review.

Shimin Huang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA in 2015, and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University supervised by Prof. Alyosha Molnar. His research interests include RF/mm-wave and mixed-signal integrated circuits for high performance next-generation wireless communication and sensing. He was the recipient of IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) best student paper award finalists at RFIC 2021 and a co-recipient of the best paper award at 2021 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC).

Seungchan Lee received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2021. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara where he works on the realization of a 140 GHz communication link since 2021. His current research interests include millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems and phased array systems for future wireless communications.

Sanaz Sadeghi received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering with the Molnar Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Ruiyi Shen is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2022. Ruiyi’s research interests range from the designs of high-speed RF integrated circuits, high accuracy radar/LiDAR sensing and imaging, to mmWave/THz localization and communication systems.

Rohith Soman earned his Ph.D. and M.E. degrees from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. During his Ph.D., he focused on the development of normally-off AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices for high-power applications. His M.E. project involved the creation of gas sensors for detecting environmentally hazardous gases.

Presently, he is engaged in research at the Chowdhury group at Stanford, where his work revolves around the integration of diamond with N-polar GaN devices. This integration aims to enhance heat spreading, ultimately realizing high-efficiency radio-frequency amplifiers.

Robert Parsons received the B.S. degree in biomedical engineering from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with the Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University under Professor Keren Bergman. His research interests include the modeling, testing, and co-optimization of link architectures and constituent silicon photonic devices for high-bandwidth, energy-efficient optical interconnects.

Rijo Baby received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India. He worked on developing normally-on and normally-off AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices for high-power applications during his Ph.D. Currently, he has joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi's Wide Bandgap Materials and Electronics Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is working on scaled N-polar GaN devices for high-frequency applications and joined the group in the fall of 2023."

Richard “Reed” Thomson is a first year PhD student in Michal Lipson's group at Columbia University. Throughout his PhD, he plans to focus his research on mode multiplexing/demultiplexing and Photonic modulators, which he developed a strong passion for during his undergraduate and graduate coursework. Outside of research, he enjoys cycling and spending time outside.

Ramin Javadi received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2017. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science with Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. From 2018 to 2021, he was with Tosan, Tehran, Iran, where he worked on mixed-signal circuit design. His research interests are in energy efficient high-speed wireline communication systems.

Poorya Mollahosseini received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems, from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2021. He is currently a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. His general research interest is mmWave wireless system design.

Po-Shao Chen received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering and M.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. His research interests include hardware architecture and VLSI design for digital signal processing.

Phong Nguyen obtained his B.S.E. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, USA, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. During his time at CWRU, he was granted the ISSACS fellowship for his outstanding work on creating and implementing a ground penetrating radar (GPR) system used for surveying urban infrastructure.

Phong is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy. He is now focused on advancing his expertise in the design and optimization of mm-Wave circuits and systems. His interests also include analog, mixed-signal, and digital circuit designs in communication systems as well as the implementation of computational algorithms to enhance the capabilities of such systems.

Ph.D. student @ UCSB, Electrical Engineering

I am currently a PhD student in Michal Lipson's group at Columbia University. My research interests include excitation and manipulation of transverse modes in photonic and fiber platforms, as well as imaging and inverse design in the context of photonics.

Oguz Odabasi received his dual bachelor’s degree in both Physics and Electrical and Electronics Engineering and MS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan and his research is focused on the design, fabrication, and characterization of N-polar high electron mobility transistors.

Nishant Patil is a doctoral fellow at the electrical engineering department of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He works with Professor Harish Krishnaswamy at the Columbia high-Speed and Millimeter-wave IC (CoSMIC) lab. His research interests include RF and mm-wave circuits, Full duplex systems. He did his bachelor's and master's at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. In 2022, he was awarded the best institute hardware project for his master's thesis on NB-IoT receiver design.

Mostafa Ayesh earned his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2022 where he is currently completing his Ph.D. He holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Ain Shams University and Alexandria University, Egypt, awarded in 2017 and 2013 respectively. Mostafa's research journey began as a research assistant at Ain Shams University's Integrated Circuits Lab until 2015, followed by working as an analog-mixed design engineer in Silicon Vision, Synopsys Inc. until 2017. Since August 2017, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. as an Annenberg Fellow in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at USC. Mostafa's industry experience includes working as an RFIC design engineer at Qualcomm Inc. during the summers of 2022 and 2023. He also completed an earlier internship at Skyworks in summer 2018 as an analog-mixed IC design intern. His interests encompass wireless mmWave receivers, low-power high-speed ADCs and DACs, high-speed serial links, as well as data analysis and statistics.

Mohamed Badr Younis received his B.Sc. in Communications and Computer Engineering and M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Since graduating in 2016, he has been working at Cairo University as a Teaching Assistant in the Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering department. Alongside being a Teaching Assistant, Mohamed worked as a part-time Analog/Mixed-Signal design engineer with Si-Ware Systems (Goodix currently), Cairo, Egypt, from 2016 to 2019. With Si-Ware Systems, he participated in design, verification, and testing activities for their timing and low-speed RF products and IPs. Since 2021, Mohamed is pursuing his Ph.D. in Circuit Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.

Mohamadali is a highly experienced researcher who has a proven track record in working with high-power high-frequency transistors, all-diamond diodes, diamond integration for thermal management, and III-V wide bandgap semiconductors. He possesses expertise in various areas such as fab process design-integration, process and device modeling using tools like Athena and Atlas, thin-film deposition techniques including Evaporation, Sputtering, PVD, ALD, and PECVD, as well as dry etching such as ICP/RIE etching of Diamond, AlN, SiN, Al2O3, and SiO2. Additionally, he is skilled in the growth of single-crystalline/polycrystalline diamond on various semiconductors and dielectrics.
Currently, his primary focus lies in addressing the self-heating problem in semiconductor technologies by exploring thermal management techniques at the device level. He has achieved remarkable results in this area, including the attainment of the lowest thermal boundary resistance (TBR) between diamond and GaN, which closely aligns with the DMM theory. Furthermore, he has also achieved the highest lateral thermal conductivity for diamond thin films, further demonstrating his expertise and innovation in the field.

Mingyuan Han received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. He is currently pursuing the MS/Ph.D. degree with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests focus on high performance and energy efficient high speed links.

Mingran Yang is a third-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Manya Ghobadi. Mingran's research interest is networks and systems for machine learning.

Mihir Kavishwar is an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is pursuing his doctorate degree under the guidance of Prof. Naresh Shanbhag. His research interests include integrated circuits, signal processing, communication systems, computer architecture and machine learning. Prior to joining UIUC, he studied at Princeton University for two semesters as a doctoral student and a Gordon Wu Fellow. He completed his Undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Michael Cullen received his B.E. in Engineering from Dartmouth College in 2022, B.A. in Physics, and B.A. in Mathematics degrees from Amherst College in 2021. At Amherst College, Michael played varsity ice hockey and completed his undergraduate physics thesis in an AMO lab led by Prof. Larry Hunter where he studied new excitation schemes for improving optical cycling in TlF. He joined the Lightwave Research Lab at Columbia University in 2022 in pursuit of the M.S./Ph.D program, with interests in silicon photonic systems and optoelectronic devices.

Md Abu Saleh Tajin received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University (2023). He also received his MS from Drexel (2021) and his BSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2015). His research interests include reconfigurable antennas, flexible radios, wireless implants, and nanomaterials.

Dr. Guidry's research interests are in high-performance semiconductor devices, with a focus on developing and using new characterization methods and modeling to analyze devices and improve their performance. 

Lalitha Giridhar is a third year PhD student working in the Wireless Communications and Sensornets Laboratory (WCSL) at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and advised by Prof. Upamanyu Madhow. Her primary areas of research interests include MmWave/THz communication systems and radar signal processing.

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to deeply learn and broaden my RFIC design technique under the guidance of Prof. Mark Rodwell.

I am mostly interested in mm-wave circuit design, especially in Power Amplifier, Frequency Multiplier, Attenuator, etc. I have 3 years of work experience in RFIC operating frequency bands from Ku-band to W-band as a graduate research assistant @ Korea University.

Khaled Hassan received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and 2019 respectively. He worked for Silicon Vision Inc. (Acquired by Synopsys Inc. 2015) as a Senior Analog Design Engineer until 2018. He joined Vidatronic Inc. as a Senior member of the technical staff developing state of art power management units for different kinds of applications. He started pursuing his Ph.D. as an Annenberg Fellow student at Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Southern California in January 2022. His interests include ADCs and DACs, High-Speed Serial Links, Power Management ICs, Transceivers, and Frequency Synthesizers.

I am a 3rd year PhD student in Prof. Keren Bergman’s lab at Columbia University studying silicon photonics.  My research focuses on device and link designs for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) co-packaged transceivers.

I graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2020 with a minor in Material Science.  

During my undergraduate, I was a superuser at the university cleanroom and I interned at Ayar Labs for 2 summers as a Test Development Engineer where I designed and built two test stations for laser and photonic dies.

In 2021 during a co-op at Elenion (now Nokia), I worked in the Silicon Photonics Design Team where I designed, taped-out, and measuring passive photonic devices for coherent transceivers.

I also enjoy photography, 3D modeling, and I am currently training for the 2023 New York City Marathon in November.

Juzheng Liu (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. His research interests include high-speed data converter design, machine learning based circuit modeling and circuit design automation. He has been a reviewer for JSSC, SSC-L, and TCAD. He was the recipient of the ISSCC 2022 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper.

B.A., 2023, Seoul National University, Ph.D., 2028 (anticipated), University of California at Berkeley, Research interests: silicon MEMS optical switches, programmable photonic circuits, thin film piezoelectric materials.

Jose C. Guajardo received the B.S. degree in Electrical Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2021 and is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at University of California, Berkeley. At MIT, he worked in the Microsystems Technology Laboratory as a student researcher. Currently, he is a graduate research assistant at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center in Prof. Ali Niknejad's research group. His research interests are at the intersection of electromagnetics and integrated circuits, and focus on high-frequency transceiver and phased array system design.

I received by M.Sc in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden and am currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. My research interests include MEMS and silicon photonics. I’m part of the SuperSwitch project within SRC.

Jeongkyu Kim received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea University in 2013 and 2015 respectively. He joined the WBG Lab at Stanford University as a Ph.D. student in September 2021. His research interests include diamond-integrated GaN HEMT fabrication for next generation communication technology.

Jamie C. Ye obtained the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 2019 and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2023. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Under the guidance of Prof. Alyosha Molnar, his research primarily revolves around RF / mm-wave, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design for high performance and efficient communication and sensing systems. His current focus is on designing and assembling massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems and developing jammer equalization techniques. Additionally, he is investigating and designing novel N-Path mixer-first receiver topologies in the RF / mm-wave domain.

Led to study physics by a life-long fascination with light, Jacob was first exposed to the exciting possibilities of nanophotonics as a visiting research assistant in the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics. There he investigated the feasibility of using nanoantennas to manipulate magnetic dipole transitions in nearby molecules and unlock forbidden photochemical reactions. In a subsequent research fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Jacob designed, fabricated and characterized chip-integrated tunable photon sources. Now, as a PhD student in the Lipson Nanophotonics Group, Jacob is investigating fundamental questions and technological applications manifesting from the manipulation of coherent light in an integrated platform.

Hyungyo Kim received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. His current research interest includes algorithm hardware co-design for energy-efficient systems for machine learning applications.

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received both my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. with the highest honor in Communications Engineering, from the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, respectively in 2018 and 2019. My research interests include privacy-preserving machine learning, security, and communication system design.

Heyu received his B.S. in IC Design and Integrated Systems from Peking University(PKU). He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. In his undergrad, he worked on RFID localization, RFID sensing, and mmwave radar SLAM. Now he works on mmwave joint communication and sensing.

Hesham Beshary received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and communications engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2017 and 2020 , respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at University of California, Berkeley. From 2017 to 2020, he was an RF/mm-Wave Design Engineer at Analog Devices Inc, Egypt. His research interests include mm-Wave/sub-THz integrated circuits and systems for 5G and 6G communications.

Henry received his BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2018 and his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2020. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara with a focus on Nitrogen-polar GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors. 

Han-Mo Ou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2020, and his Master of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. Han-Mo's research interests VLSI is for signal processing and communications, and his current work focuses on developing efficient and high-performance circuits for communication systems.

Guoyi Xu joined CoSMIC Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in September 2023. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2018, and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2023. His research interests include joint communication and sensing, digital signal processing for massive MIMO, radio-frequency/mm-Wave systems, indoor wireless sensing (detection and localization), and radio-frequency identification (RFID). His Ph.D. dissertation focused on developing radio-frequency systems and signal processing techniques for indoor sensing and localization. His papers were the finalist for Best Paper Award in IEEE RFID 2023 – the 17th International Conference on RFID and the Student Paper Contest of the 2024 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet). In Spring 2022, he worked at MathWorks Inc. as a graduate student intern where he developed new features for HDL Verifier’s Cosimulation between HDL simulators and MATLAB/Simulink.

Graydon Flatt graduated from UCLA and the University of Cambridge with degrees in physics and mathematics before joining Columbia University in 2020 as a PhD student. He currently works there in Professor Michal Lipson's nanophotonics group. At CUbiC he is interested in designing highly efficient photonic resonators.

Fariba Abbasi (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Emanuele Viterbo. She worked as a Junior Research Assistant with the Information Systems and Security Laboratory (ISSL), Sharif University of Technology (SUT), from 2014 to 2015, and worked with the Institute of Network Coding (INC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), from 2015 to 2016. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Hessam Mahdavifar. She received several awards and honors, including two visiting scholar’s fellowships from the Institute of Network Coding (INC) and the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) and Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS) in 2017, and Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Top-Up Scholarship in 2018. Her research interests broadly lie in coding and information theory and machine learning with applications in telecommunications.

Ethan Chou received his B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the design of mm-wave and sub-THz CMOS receiver arrays. He is a member of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

Erik received a B.S. in Engineering in 2016 from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering  in 2018 from Columbia University. Since 2019, has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Integrated Circuits at UC Berkeley. Erik's research interests include integrated photonics, mixed-signal circuit design methodologies, and optically-enabled computing architectures. 

He is currently working on the SRC-sponsored "SuperSwitch Controller" project. Specifically, he designed the first generation SuperSwitch controller ASIC and will develop the next generation ASIC and control platform as part of the SRC program.

Devesh is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University with a focus on  mixed signal design for optoelectronic and biological applications. He graduated in 2019 from Indian Institute Technology Bombay with a B. Tech. and M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering.

I am a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering and a member of WBG lab at Stanford University. My primary area of research is fabrication and characterization of H-terminated diamond FETs for RF applications. I received my Master's degree from Cornell University in 2021 and Bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur in 2019.

Damla received the B.S. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a minor in Solid-State Physics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 2012 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Semiconductor Devices and Physics from the University of California, Davis, CA in 2015. Her M.S. research focused on novel high-speed and low-power SAR ADC architectures based on time-to-digital conversion. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, NY focusing on mmWave N-Path Mixers for Interference Tolerant Receivers on CMOS, SiGe, and GaN technologies for high data-rate wireless communications and sensing. In 2023, she demonstrated the first GaN N-path passive mixer ever reported to date under the advisement of Prof. Al Molnar and presented directly to the Head of NIST overseeing the CHIPS Act under the Secretary of Commerce. Prior to joining Cornell, she was an R&D mmWave IC design intern at Next Generation Radio Integration Lab at Intel Labs, OR in 2019 working on Nonlinear Distortions in mmWave Phased Array Transceivers. She worked on tunable PLLs at Analog Devices, CA (2015), high-speed optical modulator drivers at Bell Laboratories, NJ (2016), and the bandwidth extension techniques for the broadband amplifiers at Intel Labs, OR (2017). 

Damla is a reviewer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I), IEEE Journal of Microwaves (JMW), and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT). She has been the IEEE SSCS Young Professional Student Representative since 2016.

Damla has been a member of the MTT-S TC-14 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits Committee and the IEEE IMS Technical Program Review Committee (IMS TPRC) since 2021. She has been serving on the IEEE IMS Early Career Paper Competition Committee since 2023. 

Damla has been selected as one of 20 researchers recognized as the IEEE SSCS Rising Stars 2024.

Chung-Hsuan Tung is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Duke University. He received his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. His broad research interests include computer architecture, fault-tolerance systems, machine-learning hardware, edge computing, and computer network systems, focusing on software-defined radio and hardware acceleration for machine-learning applications. Chung-Hsuan was awarded an Outstanding Winner at the 2018 Synopsys ARC Design Contest with his team’s IoT vending machine and cloud management system. He is also an honorary member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China for being named the top student in his undergraduate academic performance.

Cheol So received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST). He is currently a researcher with the University of California, Santa Barbara(UCSB). His current research interests include millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems in silicon technologies and MIMO and phased-array for radars and wireless communications.

Ce Yang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. His current research interests include mm-wave receiver design, analog/RF integrated circuits design, power amplifiers for RF applications, and new circuit architectures for wireless communication. Mr. Yang was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award (First Place) at the 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium.

Canan Cebeci is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Upamanyu Madhow. Her research interests lie primarily in wireless systems and signal processing. She earned a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, summa cum laude; and a B.A. in Philosophy, ranking second in her class, from Koc University in Turkey in 2021.

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Professor Umesh Mishra's group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research focuses on fabrication and characterization of N-polar nitride-based high electron mobility transistors.

Benoit Pit-Claudel is a PhD student in the EECS department at MIT working with Professors Manya Ghobadi and Muriel Médard. His research focuses on principled networking systems, in particular for datacenter and machine learning applications. He is currently working on bringing queueing theoretic techniques to ML job scheduling.

Atsutse Kludze is a PhD Candidate at Princeton University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department advised by Professor Yasaman Ghasempour. His work focuses on creating high-speed and novel communication and sensing architectures by bridging the theory of EM and wireless communications to prototyping and experimental evaluation. He earned his BS and MA degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University and Princeton University respectively. He is a recipient of a GEM Employee Fellowship and of Princeton's 2023 Pramod Subramanyan *17 Early Career Graduate Award. He has won best paper award at USENIX NSDI 2023 and has interned at IBM Watson Research Center.

Anna Kasperovich received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Northeastern University. She was honored as one of Northeastern University’s Huntington 100 and received the Calvin S. Cronan Award for Excellence in Communication from the Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering working as a Researcher in the Wide Band-gap Lab at Stanford on polycrystalline diamond as a thermal management material for power and RF devices as well as 3D architectures.

I did my undergraduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. I worked for 3 years at Qualcomm India in the 5G Radio Resource Control Software Development Team, before joining UCSB as a MS/PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Upamanyu Madhow, on mmW Communication and Sensing Systems. 

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Integrated Circuits and Systems Group

Andrew Netherton is a PhD candidate at UCSB; he studies silicon photonic, high-capacity, energy efficient datacenter links. He is advised by Professor John Bowers.

Alfred Davidson received the B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, USA, under the guidance of Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy.

His current research interests include the design of integrated circuits & systems for next-generation communication paradigms, and the mathematical formulation and co-optimization of the RF/mmWave, analog and digital sections of the hardware implementations of these paradigms.

Alfred was part of the S.N. Bose Scholars Program in 2019 that sponsored a research internship at Columbia University. He was also awarded the Sri. V Srinivasan Memorial Prize for the student with the best academic record in the Dual Degree (B.Tech. & M.Tech.) Class of 2020, the Prof Achim Bopp Endowment Prize for the best hardware project in Electrical Engineering and the Teaching Assistant Recognition Award (TARA) during his Dual Degree program at IIT Madras. He was the recipient of the Columbia University Presidential Fellowship in 2020 and the Master of Science Award of Excellence in 2022.

Alexandra completed her PhD and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2023 and 2021, respectively. Her Ph.D. thesis on “Denoising Sparse Wireless Channels in Multi-​Antenna Communication Systems” focuses on improving baseband channel estimates by developing new denoising techniques that exploit sparsity of channel vectors in millimeter-​wave communication systems. She received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in 2015. From 2017 to 2018, she was a Visiting Scientist at the Cornell Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory. During her graduate studies she spent time at Cornell Tech (2019 to 2020), and as an academic guest at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Spring and Fall 2023). In 2021, she was a summer intern at the Analog Garage (Analog Devices) in Boston, MA. In 2022 and 2023, she was a summer intern at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Alexandra will join IBM Research as a research scientist early 2024.

Ahmet Dundar Sezer received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2011, 2013, and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. His current research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, and optimization.

Ahmed Abdelrahman (S’16) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. From 2011 to 2019, he was a Staff Analog/RF Design Engineer at Si-Ware Systems, Cairo, Egypt, designing high performance LC reference oscillators and RF power delivery transceivers. His current research interests are high-speed coherent electrical/optical communication links and clocking circuits. Mr. Abdelrahman is a two-year recipient of Andrew T. Yang Research and Entrepreneurship Award from the University of Illinois for the period 2020–2022.