Group Events

2021

2020

MC Group Online Zoom Party. Fight On and Fight Online!

Dr. Aoyang Zhang’s Defense. Congratulations Dr. Zhang!

2019

Lab Tour with Industry Visitors in 10th USC EE Research Festival (11/8)

Dr. Tzu-Fan Wu’s Defense. Congratulations Dr. King! (10/25)

Dr. Shiyu Su’s Defense. Congratulations Dr. Su! (10/14)

Welcome the new group members! (Aug/13)

2018

Thanksgiving Dinner Event with Two Baby Group Members (11/20)

Group Event on Beach (10/07)

Birthday Surprise for Aoyang（08/30）

Dr. Cheng-Ru Ho’s Farewell Dinner (07/30)

2017

Thanksgiving Dinner Event(11/27)

Dr. Cheng-Ru Ho’s Defense (11/06)

Celebration of Prof. Chen’s Promotion (05/16)

Celebration of New Coming Students (02/28)

2015

Thanksgiving Dinner Event(11/24)

2014

Thanksgiving Dinner Event(11/26)

Celebration New Coming Students! (08/11)

2013

Thanksgiving Event(11/27)

Bee Rock Hike (09/13)

- Dec. 2023: Juzheng Liu will receive SSCS Pre-doctoral award at ISSCC 2024. Congrats, Juzheng!

- Oct. 2023: Mostafa Ayesh will present a non-uniform discrete-time FIR filtering scheme for the first time at ISSCC 2024. This approach creates a new direction for a non-uniform sub-sampling receiver that can be used for RF and mm-Wave Communications. Congrats, Mostafa, Soumya, Ce!

- Feb. 2023: Juzheng Liu received ISSCC Jack Kilby Award at ISSCC 2023 award ceremony! This prestigious award recognizes the delay-tracking pipelined SAR TDC idea and the record energy/area efficiency of the proof-of-concept prototype. Congrats, Juzheng, Mohsen!

- Jan. 2023: Qiaochu Zhang received 2022-23 IEEE SSCS predoctoral achievement award and will be recognized at ISSCC and SSCS magazine. Congrats, Qiaochu!

- Oct. 2022: Qiaochu Zhang will present a fractional-N digital MDLL featuring DTC equalizer and injection scrambling technique at ISSCC 2023. The proposed techniques achieve significant spur reduction with limited overhead. Congrats, Qiaochu, Hsiang-chun, Shiyu!

- June 2022: Ce Yang and Shiyu Su received Best Student Paper Award (First Place) from RFIC 2022. This paper presents a non-uniform time-approximation filter (NU TAF) concept for a receiver frontend. It hints a new direction of analog filtering for future radio design. Congrats, Ce, Shiyu!

- Oct. 2021: Juzheng Liu will present an 8-bit 10-GS/s ADC featuring a delay-tracking pipelined-SAR TDC at ISSCC 2022. The proposed ADC architecture in 14nm CMOS demonstrates higher power and area efficiency among high-speed (beyond GS/s) ADCs. Congrats, Juzheng, Mohsen!

- Oct 2021: Qiaochu Zhang received MHI Scholar, a recognition for his PhD works at USC. Congrats, Qiaochu!

- Sep 2021: Shiyu Su will present a machine-learning based analog mixed-signal circuit generator for time-approximation filter, called TAFA, at ASP-DAC 2022. Congrats, Shiyu, Qiaochu, Juzheng, Mohsen, Rezwan!

- May 2021: Juzheng Liu will present a machine-learning based analog mixed-signal circuit design flow using transfer learned models from silicon measurement at ICCAD 2021. The automatic layout tool is provided by UMN and Texas A&M. Congrats, Juzheng, Shiyu, Mohsen, Sam, Qiaochu, Rezwan!

- Feb 2021: Mohsen Hassanpourghadi will present a circuit-connectivity-based neural network structure for analog mixed-signal circuit modeling at DAC 2021. Congrats, Mohsen, Shiyu, Rezwan, Juzheng, and Qiaochu!

- Jan 2021: Aoyang Zhang will present an SHS PA in mm-Wave band at CICC 2021. Congrats, Aoyang, Mostafa, and Soumya!

- Jan 2021: Rezwan Rasul will present an in-memory computing chip leveraging passive gain from embedded MOS cap array at CICC 2021. It achieves high energy efficiency for machine learning application. Congrats, Rezwan!

- Dec 2020: Aoyang Zhang received 2020-21 IEEE SSCS predoctoral achievement award and will be recognized at ISSCC and SSCS magazine. Congrats, Aoyang!

- Oct 2020: Aoyang Zhang will present the first current-mode SHS PA at ISSCC 2021. This proves SHS PA architecture can be deployed in both voltage and current modes. Congrats, Aoyang, Ce, and Mostafa!

- Oct 2020: Qiaochu Zhang will present a background two-point DTC calibration scheme for precise injection locking in MDLL at ISSCC 2021. Congrats, Qiaochu, Shiyu, and Cheng-Ru!

- Oct 2020: Aoyang Zhang receive MHI Scholar at USC in recognition of his PhD works. Congrats, Aoyang!

- July 2020: Juzheng Liu will present a machine-learning based analog circuit modeling technique (BOAS and TL) at ICCAD 2020. Congrats, Juzheng, Mohsen, Qiaochu, and Shiyu!

- July 2020: Qiaochu Zhang will present a CNN based early performance assertion scheme (CEPA) at ICCAD 2020. Congrats, Qiaochu, Shiyu, and Juzheng!

- June 2020: Ce Yang will present the first non-uniform sub-sampling frontend at RFIC 2020. Congrats, Ce, Mostafa, Aoyang, and Tzu-Fan!

- Dec 2019: Tzu-Fan Wu receives SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award and will be recognized during ISSCC 2020. Congrats, Tzu-Fan!

- Oct 2019: Tzu-Fan Wu will present a world first VCO-based non-uniform sampling ADC with fully integrated non-uniform DSP at ISSCC 2020. It hints new opportunities in future ADC design based on non-uniform sampling concept. Congrats, Tzu-Fan!

- Oct 2019: Shiyu Su will present an RF transmitter based on tri-level time-approximation filter (TAF) at ISSCC 2020. The tri-level TAF enables record low OOB noise floor without using a SAW filter. Congrats, Shiyu!

- Oct 2019: Shiyu Su received MHI Scholar, a recognition for his PhD works at USC. Congrats, Shiyu!

- April 2019: Jaewon Nam received the Best Student Paper Award at CICC 2019 Congrats, Jaewon!

- April 2019: Shiyu Su will present a time approximation filter technique for a RF transmitter at VLSI Symposium 2019. The technique provides a new direction for RF filtering with low cost. Congrats, Shiyu!

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