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SESSION II: CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Session Cochairs: Seong Hwan Cho and Tsung-Hsien Lin • Jing Guo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

Hong Kong • Woojae Lee, KAIST, Korea • Mehdi Kiani, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States • Chirag Sthalekar, Tufts University, United States • Kevin Mazurek, Johns Hopkins University, United States • Shu-Yu Hsu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan • Xiaoyang Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore • Wala Saadeh, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology,

U.A.E.

Session II of SRP consisted of eight poster presentations that covered vari-ous aspects of biomedical circuits and systems. The cross-discipline nature of the biomedical researches presented a unique challenge to the participating students, for they must understand the underlying biomedical problems while proposing innovative circuit and system solutions. However, this emerging field also offers the students a unique opportunity to explore new research frontier. The research works presented in this session include biosignal sens-ing and acquisition techniques, signal processing and analysis algorithms, power delivery circuits, and system integration. All these works have shown that the students have good grasps on the issues that they are solving and also demonstrated well-thought circuit and system design techniques.

—Tsung-Hsien Lin

SESSION III: MEMORY, DIGITAL, MEMS, AND PLL IPS

Session Cochairs: Dejan Markovic and Vincent Gaudet • Richard Dorrance, University of California, Los Angeles,

United States • Magdalena Sihotang, Research Institute of Electrical

Communication, Tohoku University, Japan • Changhung Tsai, NCTU, Taiwan • Yi-Pin Lu, NTU, Taiwan • Yingzhe Hu, Princeton University, United States • Hossein Fariborzi, MIT, United States • Young-Seok Park, Yonsei University, Korea.

The final session covered advances in memory, digital, MEMS, and PLL technology. Seven presentations covered exciting topics such as spin-tronic and MEM-relay devices for next-generation digital architectures, innovations in multimedia signal processing, and PLL design. One paper reported on techniques to sense strain in bridges. Students represented universities from the United States, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. We look forward to seeing these outstanding students give presentations in regular sessions at future ISSCCs!

—Vincent Gaudet and Dejan Markovic

Eight Granted SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Awards for 2012–2013

TThe IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Awards Committee chaired by John C. Corcoran chose eight outstanding doctoral-level graduate students for the SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Awards of 2012–2013:

■ from the University of California, Berkeley, Jiashu Chen, an advi-see of Prof. Ali Niknejad; Lingkai Kong, an advisee of Prof. Elad Alon; and Hanh-Phuc Le, who is advised by Prof. Elad Alon and Prof. Seth Sanders

■ Wei Deng and Ahmed Musa, both mentored by Prof. Kenichi Okada

of the Department of Physical Electronics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

■ Ruonan Han, whose advisor is Prof. Ehsan Afshariat at the Cor-nell University, School of Electri-cal and Computer Engineering

■ I-Ting Lee, a student of Prof. Shen-Iuan Liu, National Taiwan University

■ Kamran Souri, who studies with Prof. Kofi Makinwa at Delft Uni-versity, School of Technology.

Jiashu ChenJiashu Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley,

Electrical Engi-neering and Co- mputer Science Department. He is also an active researcher at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center,

which is devoted to the design and implementation of next-generation wireless systems in computers and mobile devices through the use of state-of-the-art technologies.

His research focuses primarily on integrated circuits operating at radio frequencies. However, he is also investigating the feasibility of low-cost circuits operating at millimeter-wave

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frequencies; these would offer much higher rates of data transmission, and would eventually permit the replace-ment of cables by wireless systems.

A native of China, Jiashu received his bachelor’s degree from the City University of Hong Kong. He earlier studied at Fudan Univer-sity in Shanghai. From January to May of 2006, he was an exchange student in the Department of Electri-cal and Computer Engineering at Carn-egie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Wei DengWei Deng received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Elec-tronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu,

in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Cur-rently, he is working toward a Ph.D. degree at the Tokyo Institute of Tech-nology, Japan. His research interests include analog/RF/millimeter-wave transceiver systems and clock/fre-quency generation systems for wire-line and wireless communications. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences including ISSCC, JSSC, A-SSCC, ESSCIRC, and RFIC. He is a technical reviewer for several international journals and conferences.

He was the recipient of the SSCS STGA in 2010, the Honor Scholarship from 2010 to 2013 and the Excel-lent Student Award at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011, the China Youth Science and Tech-nology Innovation Award in 2011, the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achieve-ment Award in 2012, the Chinese Government Award for Outstand-ing Self-Financed (non-government sponsered) Students Abroad in 2013, and the Tejima Research Award in 2013.

Ruonan HanRuonan Han is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Uni-versity, Ithaca, New York. He received

the B.S. degree in microelectron-ics from Fudan University, China, in 2007 and the M.S. degree in electrical engi-

neering from the University of Florida in 2009. In the summer of 2012, he interned for Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, California. His research is focused on terahertz integrated circuits using CMOS and GaN technologies. Working with Prof. Ehsan Afshari, his advisor at Cornell, and Prof. Kenneth K.O. of the University of Texas, Dallas, he has demonstrated a 260-GHz CMOS array with milliwatt radiation, a passive fre-quency doubler at 480 GHz, and the world’s first CMOS Schottky diode imagers at 280 GHz and 860 GHz.

Han was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award (second place) at the 2012 RFIC, the Helic Student Scholarship at the 2010 CICC, the SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (2012~2013), and the 2012 IEEE SSCS STGA. He was also awarded the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Fellowship and the John M. Olin Fellowship by Cornell University in 2011 and 2010, respec-tively. He has authored/coauthored over 20 academic papers and serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Technology, and the IEEE International Sympo-sium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

Lingkai KongLingkai Kong re -ceived his B.S. degree in math-ematics and phys-ics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007.

He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineer-ing at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in energy-efficient electronic sys-tem design, including high-speed wireline signaling and mm-wave communication system design.

In the past, he has held intern-ship positions at Inphi Corp., Ram-bus Inc., and Xilinx Inc., where he

worked on various projects includ-ing laser driver, mm-wave font end, and high-speed link designs.

He is the recipient of the 2012 James H. Eaton Memorial Scholarship and the 2011 Analog Devices Out-standing Designer Award and corecip-ient of the 2011 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award.

Hanh-Phuc LeHanh-Phuc Le is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical Engi-neering and Com-puter Sciences, the University of

California, Berkeley. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engi-neering from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, in 2003, and KAIST, Korea, in 2006, respectively. He has served as an official reviewer for JSSC since 2010, the IEEE Transaction of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) System since 2010, the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics since 2011, and ISCAS since 2009. In 2012, he was a mem-ber of the Technical Program Com-mittee of the International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (Pow-erSoC) and cochaired its session on Granular Power Supply for SoCs.

He has held R&D positions at the Institute of Material Science, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, JDA Tech. in Korea, Oracle, AMD, and Intel. His research interests include analog circuit design for power electronics and communications applications, with emphasis on switch-mode power converters, fully integrated power conversion, control methods, and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

I-Ting LeeI-Ting Lee received a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Tai-wan, in 2007 and

is currently working toward the Ph.D.

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degree in electronics engineering at the National Taiwan University, Taipei.

Under the guidance of Prof. Shen-Iuan Liu, he is highly interested in analog/mixed-signal IC design and focuses his research on PLLs as well as frequency synthesizers and high-speed wireless and wineline transceivers.

In 2010–2012, he was an intern at Design and Technology Platform, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur-ing Company, where he was involved in the development of a low-noise clock generator.

He deeply appreciated the oppor-tunity of being both a graduate student and an engineer. He would like to make contributions to both academia and industry in his career.

Ahmed MusaAhmed Musa grad -uated from high school in Saudi Arabia at the top of his class in 1999. At the King Fahd Uni-

versity of Petroleum and Minerals, he obtained double major degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering in 2006, both degrees with first honors.

In 2009, he graduated from the master’s program in the Physical Electronics Department at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree. His main areas of research are CMOS RF/MMW ICs and PLLs.

During his master’s and Ph.D. studies, he worked as a research assistant designing RF/MMW circuits for different RF applications, which he published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, ISSCC, A-SSCC, ESSCIRC, and other journals. He has received many awards including The Excellent Student of the Year Award, received twice from the GCOE program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was also awarded the Special Feature Award at the ASP-DAC 2011 University Design Contest. Finally, he received the Predoctoral Achievement Award 2012–2013 from the IEEE SSCS. His hobbies include soccer, diving, mar-tial arts, and weight lifting.

Kamran SouriKamran Souri re -ceived a B.Sc. in electronics and an M.Sc. in tele-communication systems from the Amirkabir

University of Technology, Iran, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2001 to 2007, he worked at PSP-Ltd, Tehran, Iran, designing embedded systems for high quality audio/video systems, KVM switches and smart BMS systems. In September 2007, he joined the Elec-trical Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he received an M.Sc. degree in microelectronics (cum laude) in 2009 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate, specializing in the design of ultra-low-power/energy-efficient CMOS smart temperature sensors for RFID application. He has served as a technical reviewer for JSSC since 2012, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sys-tems I (TCAS-I) since 2010, and the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) since 2010.

In the course of his research, he developed several prototypes that decreased the energy consumption of integrated temperature sensors by more than two orders of mag-nitude without compromising their accuracy or resolution. The result-ing prototypes have been (or are being) successfully commercialized by the project’s industrial partner, NXP-Semiconductors.

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