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Lab Members
Faculty
Professor David J.
Allstot -- allstot@ee.washington.edu
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David J. Allstot
received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Univ. of
Portland, Oregon State Univ., and the Univ.
of California, Berkeley,
respectively.
He has held several industrial and academic
positions and has been the Boeing-Egdvedt
Chair Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington
since 1999.
Dr. Allstot is the recipient of several outstanding teaching and
advising awards He has advised about 80 M.S. and Ph.D. graduates and
published about 250 papers. His awards include the IEEE W.R.G. Baker
Prize Paper Award in 1978, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Darlington Best Paper Award in 1995, IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits
Conference Beatrice Winner Award in 1998, IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 1999, Technical Achievement Award of
the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2004, and Aristotle Award of
the Semiconductor Research Corporation in 2005.
His professional service includes Associate
Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits
and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing from 1990-1993, Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing from 1993-1995, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Custom IC
Conference from 1990-1993, Board of Governors, IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society from 1992-1995, Technical Program Committee, IEEE
Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1994-2004, Executive
Committee Member and Short Course Chair, IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1996-2000, Distinguished
Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2000-2001,
Co-General Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems in 2002, and Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society, 2006-2007. He is a Member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma
Xi and a Fellow of IEEE.
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Program Manager
Pam Eisenheim -- pam@ee.washington.edu
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Pam is the program manager of the
SOC lab as well as the entire VLSI group.
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Current
Students
Charles Peach -- ctpeach@ee.washington.edu
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Born and
raised in the boonies of Alaska, he
ventured into the world and obtained his B.S.E. from Princeton University in 2000. Charles
researches Analog/Digital Converters and other mixed-signal
techniques in low voltage applications. He received his MSEE degree
from the University
of Washington
in 2002. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D, and also working at
Impinj, Seattle, WA.
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Yi Tang -- tangyi@ee.washington.edu
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Yi Tang
graduated from the University
of Electronic Science
and Technology of China (UESTC) in 1996. She worked as IC test and
reliability engineer for the 10th Research Institute of
Chinese Electrical Industry Department. She got her master degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah
in 2002. Then she came to University
of Washington
for her PhD. She had a 9-month internship with Cirrus Logic Inc,
worked on the sigma-delta ADCs for audio application as design
engineer. Her Ph.D research topic is high-speed & wide-bandwidth
sigma-delta ADCs design for WLAN with digital calibration.
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Nathan Neihart -- neihart@ee.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/neihart/
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Nathan
Neihart received his Bachelor of Science and master of Science
Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Utah, Salt Lake City in 2003 and 2004,
respectively. He joined the SOC lab in Fall of 2004, where he is
pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. David Allstot. His
research interests include single- and multiple-antenna transmitters,
cognitive radio, and mm-wave circuit design.
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Jeffrey Walling -- noyade@ee.washington.edu
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Jeff
joined the SOC lab in Sept. 2003. Prior to that, he was with
Motorola. Jeff is working on power amplifier linearization.
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Sudip Shekhar -- shekhar@ee.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/shekhar/
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Sudip
Shekhar received the B.Tech degree in ECE from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur in 2003. He received the M.S degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington
in 2005, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree under
the supervision of Prof. David Allstot. In the summer of 2005, 2006
and 2007, he was an intern with Intel Corporation, where he worked on
the modeling and design of serial links, injection-locking and DLLs.
His current research interests include RF transceivers, frequency
synthesizers and mixed-signal circuits for high-speed I/O interfaces.
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Kuang-Wei Cheng -- kwcheng@ee.washington.edu
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Kuang-Wei
Cheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from National Taiwan
University, Taiwan,
in 2000 and 2002, respectively. During his M.S. study, his research
focus was low voltage CMOS pipelined ADC. After graduation, he worked
for MediaTek Inc. in Taiwan,
developing TV decoder analog front-end and DVD player chipset. He
joined the SOC lab in the Autumn of 2005. He is currently working on
Sigma-Delta ADC.
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Subhanshu Gupta -- sgupta@ee.washington.edu
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Subhanshu
Gupta received the B.E degree from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India in 2002. He spent a
year working at Novell Netware before starting his graduate studies
in September 2003 at University
of Washington.
He joined Prof. Allstot's group in 2004 and worked initially on RF
switches. He did his internship on Sigma-Delta ADC's at National
Semiconductors and is currently working on the low OSR, high
bandwidth sigma-delta ADC's.
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Daibashish
Gangopadhyay -- daibash@ee.washington.edu
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Daibashish Gangopadhyay
received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics &
Electrical Comm. Engg. from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur in 2005 and 2006, respectively, where he worked on wideband
operational amplifiers and CMOS capacitive fingerprinting systems.
Since September 2006, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington, under the
supervision of Prof. David Allstot. His current research interests
include analog and mixed-signal circuits, RF transceivers and MIMO
applications.
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Sangmin Yoo -- smyoo@u.washington.edu
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Sangmin
Yoo received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from
the Sogang University, Seoul, Korea,
in 2000 and 2002, respectively. During his M.S. study, his research
focus was high-speed CMOS pipelined ADC. After graduation, he was
with Samsung Electronics, where he worked on the design of high-speed
high-resolution data converters and other analog circuits. Since
September 2007, he joined Prof. Allstot’s group at the University of Washington. His current
research interests include Sigma-Delta ADCs and analog/mixed-mode
integrated circuits.
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Parmoon Seddhighrad
-- parmoon@u.washington.edu
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Photo coming soon.
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Bio coming soon.
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Heng-Chia (Gordon)
Hsu -- hengchia@u.washington.edu
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Heng-Chia Hsu received his B.S. degree in Electrical and
Control Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2004. After
graduation, he served as second lieutenant in the communication
company of R.O.C. Marine Corps until early 2006. Then he came to University of Washington to further advance
his study as a Ph.D student and subsequently joined the SOC lab in
the summer of 2007 under the supervision of Professor David Allstot.
His current research interests include RF and microwave circuits.
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Karthik Natarajan -- nkarthik@u.washington.edu
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Karthik Natarajan received his Bachelors degree from BMS
College of Engineering in Bangalore,
India.
He worked for LSI Logic in Bangalore
for 2 years prior to starting his graduate studies. He joined the SOC
lab since September 2007 and is currently working towards his MSEE
under professor David Allstot’s supervision. His current research
interests are sigma delta ADC after having worked with them at
Cypress Semiconductors during summer 2007.
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Frank Sun -- franksun@u.washington.edu
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Frank Sun received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He then decided to join the University of Washington and Dr. Allstot's
group and is beginning his first year in graduate school. He now firmly believes that he made
the right choice because Kevin Durant has been drafted by the Seattle
Supersonics (go Longhorns!).
He is interested in mixed-signal and RF IC design, but hopes
to expand in the future into the area of biosensors and
bioelectronics once he has trained himself to become a proficient
circuit designer.
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Recent Alumni
Arezou Khatibi -- arezou@ee.washington.edu
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Arezou Khatibi received her B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Azad University, Tehran, Iran
in 1995. She received her MS in 2007 at the University of Washington
under Professor David Allstot's supervision. Her current research interests
are continuous-time filters. She is currently with Qualcomm, CA.
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Jeyanandh Paramesh --
paramesh@ee.washington.edu
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~paramesh/
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Jeyanandh
Paramesh received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1996 and an M.S from Oregon State
University, Corvallis in
1998, both in Electrical Engineering. From June 1998 to June 2000 he
was with AKM Semiconductor, San
Diego where he worked on analog design for
ADCs and DACs. Between June 2000 and September 2001, Jeyanandh worked
for the Wireless Technology Integration
Center, Motorola, Austin where he
was involved in analog and RF circuit design for cellular handsets.
Jeyanandh finished his Ph.D at the University
of Washington, Seattle under
the supervision of Professor David Allstot in 2006. He is an Assistant Professor at
Carnie Mellon University now.
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Cameron Charles -- ccharles@ee.washington.edu
http://www.ece.utah.edu/~ccharles/
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Cameron
Charles received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer
Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2001. He was
awarded his Master of Science degree from the University of Utah
in 2003. During his Master's program he worked on designing
integrated circuit components for neural recording applications. He
finished his Ph.D in 2006, and is currently an Assistant Professor at
University of Utah.
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Sankaran Aniruddhan
(Ani) -- ani@ee.washington.edu
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Sankaran
Aniruddhan (Ani) was awarded the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Degree
in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Madras
in 2000. He received his MS in EE from the University of Washington,
Seattle in 2003, during which he researched Low-Phase Noise VCOs for
wireless systems. During his Master's program, Ani also worked as an
intern for Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas. He finished his PhD degree
under the guidance of Prof. David Allstot in 2006. He is currently
working at Qualcomm, San
Diego, CA.
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Dicle Ozis -- dicle@ee.washington.edu
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Dicle Ozis received the B.S. degree in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from Bilkent
University, Ankara,
Turkey in 1999 and
M.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon
State University,
Corvallis, OR in 2001. She finished her Ph.D
degree at the University
of Washington
under the supervision of Prof. David Allstot in 2006. She is
currently working at Telegent Systems, Sunnyvale, CA.
Her research interests include analog and RF circuits design.
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Gaurab Banerjee -- garuab.banerjee@ieee.org
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Gaurab Banerjee received the B.S, M.S and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, Auburn University, and the University
of Washington, Seattle in 1997,
1999 and 2006 respectively.
In 1999, he joined Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR,
to design analog and mixed-signal circuits for the first Pentium-4
microprocessor. In 2001, he moved to Intel research and development
to work on CMOS based analog, mixed-signal and RF circuits for
wireless and wireline communication. Since April 2007, he is with the
Analog/RF design group of Qualcomm Inc. in Austin, TX, where he is
currently a Staff Engineer, working on RFIC design for mobile
broadcast video applications. His research/design interests are in RF
circuits, data converters and phase locked loops. He has published
more than 15 papers on semiconductor devices and circuits and has
received three patents (with several more pending). He has also
served as an industrial liaison for several university research
projects, sponsored by Intel and the S.R.C.
Dr. Banerjee is a National Talent Search
Scholar of India and a Senior Member of I.E.E.E.
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Naureen Banani -- naureen@ee.washington.edu
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Naureen
Banani graduated from the University of Washington (UW) with a BSEE
in June 2004. As an undergraduate in EE, she received the Most
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant Award, the Karl
Ellerbeck Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Research
Experience for Undergraduates Award. Naureen finished her MSEE as an
SRC scholar at UW under the guidance of Professor
Brian Otis (advisor) and Prof. David Allstot (co-advisor). Her
thesis involved the design of pH sensors to be used in
gastroesophageal diagnostic tools. She is currently working at Intel.
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Min (Adam) Chu
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Min (Adam) Chu received his
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington, in 2000, 2002, and
2006, respectively.
From 2001 to 2006, he served as
a teaching/research assistant/lecturer at the University of Washington.
He is currently a senior RF/analog design engineer with Intel
Corporation. His technical interests include the design of RF and
mixed-signal integrated circuits, and analog/RF circuit synthesis.
Dr. Chu is a member of IEEE and
Eta Kappa Nu.
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Xiaoyong Li
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Xiaoyong Li was
born in Baoji, China, in 1975. He
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking
University, Beijing, China, all in computer
science and technology, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He received
the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington,
Seattle,
in 2004. In August 2004, he joined Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA,
engaging in the design and development of CMOS integrated circuits
for cellular applications. Since May 2006, he has been with SiBEAM
Incorporated, Sunnyvale,
CA, developing high
frequency radio frequency IC in CMOS. His research interests include
the design of RF, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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Jaynie Shorb
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Jaynie Shorb graduated from the University of Washington
with a MSEE in 2002. She is currently an Analog Design Engineer at ZiLOG Seattle Design
Center, designing
integrated analog circuit blocks for microprocessor front ends to
transfer information between analog and digital domains. Her work
includes developing ADCs, DACs, precision references, amplifiers,
comparators, temperature sensors, oscillators, analog switches, and
general purpose input/output (GPIO) pads. Jaynie is an active IEEE
Member in the following societies: Solid-State Circuits, Circuits and
Systems, Electron Devices, and Electromagnetic Compatibility.
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Kiyong Choi ------------Marvell
Jinho Park --------------Marvell
See Taur Lee -----------TI
Ser Jiun Fang ----------TI
Hossein Zarei -----------Freescale
Waisiu Law -------------own startup in Beijing
Taeik Kim --------------Freescale
Kristen
Naegle ---------MIT
Srinivas Kodali
--------Analog Devices
Dan Nicholson
--------Boeing
Allan Ecker ------------Tektronix
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