The Team

Postdoc’s: Ping-Chen Huang, Laura Galindez Olascoaga, Mohamed Ibrahim
Graduate Students: Guillaume Tochou, Sohum Datta, Matthew Anderson, Alisha Menon, Youbin Kim.

Alumni (Postdocs and Graduates)

thesis title and current affiliation

Graduates

■ Alisha Menon (22) “Neural Prosthetic with In-sensor Shared Control“ - TBA

■ Matthew Anderson (22) “An Ultra-Low Loss Radio Frequency Beamforming Technique for Power-Constrainted Phased Array Applications“ - TBA

■ Sohum Datta (22) “Generic architectures for efficient Hyper-Dimensional Computing“ - Qualcomm

■ Guillaume Touchou (22) “Ultra-low power high data-rate transmitter for body-coupled communication in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS” - ST Micro

■ Andy Zhou (21) “Smart and Robust Biomedical Interfaces“ - Apple

■ Nathan Narevsky (21) “Energy Efficient Communication Links for Smart Devices “ - Impinj

■ George Alexandrov (20) “Inductive Wireless Power Transfer to Multiple Biomedical Implants “ - Apple

■ Robin Bennarouch (20) “Wireless Hub for the Human Intranet” - ST Micro

■ Ali Moin (19) “Human Intranet: Connecting Wearable and Implantable Devices “ - Apple

■ Seobin Jung (18) “Neuromodulation IC for System Integration and Self-Interference Cancellation - Google

■ Christopher Sutardja (17) "RFID Reader Design for mm-sized Neural Implants" - Stanford University.

■ Wen Li (17) "Ultra-Low Power Inductively-Coupled Wireless Transcranial Links" - Qualcomm

■ Matteo Causo (16) "Neuro-Inspired Energy-Efficient Computing Platforms" - Schindler Group, Germany.

■ Ping-Chen Huang (15) “A Bio-Inspired Artificial Olfactory System” - UC Berkeley.


■ Camillo Salazar (15) “Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Receivers Using N-Path Filtering Techniques” - CSEM, Switzerland.


■ Will Biederman (14) “Power Conditioning and Stimulation for Wireless Neural Interface ICs” - Verily.

■ Daniel Yeager (14) “Wireless Neural Interface Design” - Verily.


■ Wenting Zhou (14) “Ultra-low Power Wake-up Radio for Low Activity Wireless System” - Texas Instruments.


■ Namseog Kim (14) "An Energy-Efficient Triple-Channel UWB-based Cognitive Radio" - Qualcomm Inc.


■ Rikki Muller (13) “Low-Power, Scalable Platforms for Implantable Neural Interfaces,” - Australia; Founder Cortera Neurotechnologies, Faculty UC Berkeley


■ Jesse Richmond (13) “Design Techniques for Robust and Reliable Ultra-Low Power Radios” - Qualcomm, Apple


■ Tsung-Te Liu (12) “Towards an Ultra-Low Energy Computation with Asynchronous Circuits” - IMEC; Faculty National Taiwan University

■ David Chen (11) “Reflective Impulse Radios: Principles and Design” - Marvell, Santa Clara.


■ Michel Mark (11) “Powering mm-Size Wireless Implants for Brain-Machine Interfaces” - Infineon, Graz.


■ Yuan-Shih (Stanley) Chen (11) ”Multi-Mode Sub-Nyquist Rate D/A Converter for TV Band Cognitive Radio” - Xilinx Inc.


■ Louis Alarcon (10) “Sense Amplifier-Based Pass Transistor Logic,”- Faculty University of the Philippines, Dilliman.


■ Simone Gambini (09) "Design of a system for cm-range wireless communication", Melbourne Uni; Apple.

■ Nathan Pletcher (08) “Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Receivers for Wireless Sensor Networks,” - Google.


■ Huifang Qin (07) “Deep Sub-Micron SRAM Design for Ultra-Low Leakage Standby Operation,” - Spansion, Twitter

■ Jana Van Greunen (07) “Distributed OS for Sensor Networks,” - Silverspring Networks, Datrium
, Facebook

■ Roy Sutton (06) "Design Methodology for Run-time Management of Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processor Systems" - NA


■ Mike Sheets (06) "Standby Power Management Architecture for Deep-Submicron Systems" - Cypress, Seattle.


■ Tufan Karalar (06) "Implementation of a Localization System for Sensor Networks" - Silicon Labs


■ Yuen-Hui Chee (06) "Ultra Low Power Transmitters for Wireless Sensor Networks" -  Mediatek


■ En-Yi Lin (05) "A Comprehensive Study of Power-Efficient Rendezvous Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks" - Southern California Edison.


■ Rahul Shah (05) "Distributed Algorithms to Maximize the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" - Intel, Santa Clara.


■ Dragan Petrovic (05) "Communication and Compression in Dense Networks of Unreliable Nodes" - Qualcomm, San Jose, Nura Technologies.


■ Brian Otis (05) "Ultra-Low Power Wireless Technologies for Sensor Networks" - Faculty, University of Washington, Seattle; Verily.


■ M.  Josie Ammer (04) "Low Power Synchronization for Wireless Communication" - Qualcomm, Seattle.


■ Lizhi Charlie Zhong (04) "An Integrated Data-Link Energy Model For Wireless Sensor Networks" - W5 networks


■ Hui (Tom) Zhang (04) "Low-Power Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processors With Energy- Efficient Interconnect Network"- Innofidei Inc (founder), Beijing (also before ViMicro, founder)


Group Ski trip 2005

Group Ski trip 2005

 

■ Suet-Fei Li (03) "Exploration and Implementation of Wireless Protocol Platforms" - Broadcom, Santa Clara.


■ Kostas Sarrigeorgidis (02) "Massively Parallel Reconfigurable Architecture and Programming For Wireless Communications" - Broadcom


■ Marlene Wan (01) "Design Methodology for Low Power Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processors" - SiRF


■ Arthur Abnous (01) "Low-Power Domain-Specific Processors for Digital Signal Processing" - Broadcom


■ Varghese George (00), "Low-Energy FPGA Design,"- nVidia


■ David Lidsky (98), "The Conceptual-Level Design Approach to Complex Systems," - Volterra (founder)


■ Sean Huang (97), “TAO: An Integrated Framework for Optimizing Transformations,” - Apache Design Solutions


■ Renu Mehra (97) “High-Level Estimation and Synthesis Techniques for Low-Power Design” - Synopsys


■ Ole Bentz (97), "An Information-centric Design Exploration and Implementation Server," - Avnera


■ Lisa Guerra (96), "Behavioral Level Guidance Using Property-Based Design Characterization", - BeVocal


■ My Le (96), “Global QoS Management for Wireless Networks,” - Cisco


■ Alfred Yeung (95) "A data-driven multiprocessor architecture for high throughput digital signal processing" - Datapath (now LSI Logic)


■ Paul Landman (94), "Low Power Architectural Methodologies"-  Texas Instruments


■ Seungjun Lee (93), "A Hardware-Software Co-Simulation Environment,"- Faculty Ewha Womans University, Seoul.


■ Chi-min Chu (92), "Hardware Mapping and Module Selection in the Hyper Synthesis System,"- Synopsys.


■ Dev Chen (92), "Programmable Arithmetic Devices for High Speed Digital Signal Processing,"- Juniper.


■ Phu Hoang (92), "Compiling Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Applications on Multi-processor Systems,"  - Malhar, Inc (previous Yahoo and others)


■ Miodrag Potkonjak (92), "Algorithms for High Level Synthesis: Resource Utilization Based Approach,"- Faculty UCLA CS


■ Wook Koh (90), "A Reconfigurable MultiProcessor System for DSP Behavioral Simulation" - Faculty Ajou University, Seoul

Postdocs

Marcus Thaler, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Julio da Silva, Yu (Kevin) Cao, Makoto Takamiya (visiting professor), Ashkan Borna, Massimo Alioto (visiting professor), Abbas Rahimi, Arno Thielens, Ping-Chen Huang, Laura Galindez Olascoaga, Mohamed Ibrahim

Staff (retired)

Fred Burghardt, Sue Mellers