Principal Investigator: Mike Shuo-Wei Chen
Professor
Department of Electrical Computer Engineering – Electrophysics
Mike Shuo-Wei Chen is currently a Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, USC.
He received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley, in 2002 and 2006, all in electrical engineering.
As a graduate student researcher, he proposed and demonstrated the first asynchronous SAR ADC architecture, which has been adopted today for low-power high-speed analog-to-digital conversion products in industry. Since 2006, he has been a member of Analog IC Group at Atheros Communications (now Qualcomm-Atheros), Santa Clara, CA, working on mixed-signal and RF circuits for various wireless communication products. After joining USC in 2011, he leads an analog mixed-signal circuit group, focusing on high-speed low-power data converters, AI/ML computing, RF frequency synthesizers, wireless/wireline transceiver designs, analog design automation, non-uniformly sampled circuits and systems. His students and himself have a lot of fun exploring new circuit architectures that excel beyond the technology limitation.
Dr. Chen was the recipient of Qualcomm Faculty Award in 2019, NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) both in 2014. He also achieved an honourable mention in the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, 1994, UC Regents’ Fellowship at Berkeley in 2000 and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award for recognition in IC design in 2006.
In terms of society services, Dr. Chen has been serving as an associate editor of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), as well as a TPC member of conferences in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, such as IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium (VLSIC), and IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). He has served as Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He is an IEEE Fellow, elevated via SSCS.
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Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D. Students
Rezwan A Rasul
B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
Rezwan A Rasul joined the group as a PhD student in Fall 2016. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) and Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014 and 2016, respectively. His master’s thesis was on the design of SAR ADC with high input voltage range. He is currently involved in the design of low power and energy efficient hardware accelerator for deep neural network.
Ce Yang
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2016
Ce Yang received the B.S. degrees from Peking University, China, in 2016. He joined the group as a PhD student in Fall 2016, where he has been involved with non-uniform millimeter wave receiver design and millimeter wave wide-band spectrum sensor.
Qiaochu Zhang
B.S., Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2017
Email: qiaochuz@usc.edu / Homepage
Qiaochu Zhang joined the group as a Ph.D. student in 2017. His research interests lie in the design of high-performance mixed-signal circuits, specifically all digital frequency synthesizers and data converters, and also in analog mixed-signal design automation. Qiaochu was granted the Provost’s Fellowship by the University of Southern California in 2017.
Mostafa Ayesh
B.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 2013
M.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2017
Mostafa Ayesh received M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2022. He also earned M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Ain Shams University, Alexandria University, Egypt in 2017 and 2013 respectively. He was a research assistant in Integrated Circuits Lab (ICL), Ain Shams University until 2015 then he joined Silicon Vision, Synopsys Inc. until 2017. He has started pursuing his Ph.D. as an Annenberg Fellow student in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Southern California since August 2017. He also joined Skyworks and (Qualcomm) in Summer 2018, (2022 and 2023) as an Analog-Mixed IC design intern and (RFIC design intern) respectively. Since he joined the group in 2019, he has been involved with non-uniform millimeter wave receivers and mmwave digital PAs. His interests include high-speed low-power Analog-Mixed IC design especially ADCs and DACs, wireless and wired transceivers, data analysis and statistics.
Soumya Mahapatra
B.Tech., Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, 2019
Soumya Mahapatra received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in May 2019. He joined Dr. Chen’s Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Group at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, as a Ming Hsieh PhD fellow in August 2019. He graduated as the salutatorian of the class of 2019 across all engineering discplines at IIT Kharagpur and received the best Bachelor’s Thesis Award in E & ECE. His current research interests include analog and mixed-signal IC design for millimeter-wave wireless receiver front-ends.
Juzheng Liu
B.S., Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019
Juzheng Liu received the B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California. His current research interests include computer-aided analog and mixed-signal circuit design, and high-speed data converter design.
Maysara Hamada
B.Sc., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, 2016
M.Sc., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, 2019
Maysara Hamada received his BSc and MSc degrees from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in Egypt in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He worked as a teaching assistant at Cairo University from 2017 to 2019 as well as doing part-time research for Analog Devices Inc for 18 months and working as a part-time Analog Design Engineer at Si-Ware Systems (later acquired by Goodix Technologies) for another 18 months. He has been a PhD student at the Ming Hsieh department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California since Fall 2019. His main interests are high-speed, time-based, and nonuniform sampling data converters.
Hsiang-Chun Cheng
B.Sc., EE, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Hsiang-Chun Cheng received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 2019. Since January 2021, He has worked toward the Ph.D. degree with the University of Southern California as an Annenberg Fellow student in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include frequency synthesizers, clocking circuits and data converters.
Mayank Palaria
B. tech. and M. tech. (Dual Degree) , E & ECE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, 2020
Mayank Palaria completed his B. tech. and M. tech. (Dual Degree) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in 2020, specializing in Microelectronics and VLSI Design. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California. His current research interests include energy efficient and low power hardware design for machine learning algorithms.
Khaled Hassan
B.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2013
M.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2019
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.
Mostafa Toubar
B.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2017
M.S., Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2021
Mostafa Toubar received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2017 and 2021 respectively. He worked as a teaching assistant at electronics engineering and electrical communications department at Ain Shams University from 2019 to 2022. He worked for Vidatronic Inc. as a member of technical staff developing state of the art power management circuits for different kinds of applications. He started pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Southern California in January 2022. His interests include ADCs and DACs, Power Management ICs, Frequency Synthesizers.
Alumni
Mohsen Hassanpourghadi
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2009
M.S., Micro-electronics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
Ph.D., ECE, University of Southern California (USC), 2022
Mohsen Hassanpourghadi joined the group as a PhD student in 2014; his research interests are high speed and low power Analog-to-Digital Converters and Computer Aided Design Tools. His current research focuses on Time-based ADCs for near Nyquist sampling.
Aoyang Zhang
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2014
Ph.D., ECE, University of Southern California (USC), 2020
Aoyang received B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
His current research interests include analog/RF integrated circuits design, power amplifiers for RF applications, new circuit architectures for wireless communication and high-speed low-power data converters.
Mr. Zhang receives the first prize of Chinese National Mathematical Competition in 2010, Best Bachelor Thesis Award in 2014, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) in 2018 and Ming Hsieh Institute Scholar in 2020. From 2015 to present, he serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I/II (TCAS) and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
Tzu-Fan Wu
B.Sc., EE, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
M.Sc., EE, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Ph.D., ECE, University of Southern California (USC)
Tzu-Fan Wu received the B.Sc. degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, the M.Sc. degree from University of California, Los Angeles, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California, all in electrical engineering. He is currently the postdoctoral associate at University of Southern California. From 2009 to 2013, he was a member of the Analog IC Group at Metanoia Communications Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan, working on mixed-signal circuits for various wireline communication products. His current research interests include high-performance data converters, delta-sigma modulators, artificial intelligence accelerators, and digital signal processing.
Dr. Wu was the recipient of the 2019-2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award. From 2015 to present, he serves as a technical reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I/II, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters.
Shiyu Su (Homepage)
B.S., Wireless Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, Beijing, China, 2011; Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK, 2011
M.S., EE, University of Southern California, 2013
Ph.D., ECE, University of Southern California, 2019
Shiyu Su received the B.S. degrees from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China and Queen Mary, University of London, UK, in 2011, and the M.S. degree from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 2013, all in electrical engineering. He is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering at USC. His research interests include high-speed data converters, wireless transceiver, digital phase-locked loop, advanced computing, and analog/mixed-signal design automation.
He was the recipient of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2017–2018, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Student Travel Grant Award for 2019–2020. He was a Ming Hsieh Institute Scholar from 2019 to 2020. From 2015 to present, he serves as a reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I/II (TCAS), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI) and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
Jaewon Nam
B.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2006
M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2008
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2019
Email: jaewonna@usc.edu / Personal Web-Page
Jaewon Nam is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA. He received the Ph.D. Fellowship from the Viterbi-USC Graduate School of Engineering. From 2008 to 2012, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, as a Researcher. In Fall 2017, he was an Intern with the Data-Center Group(DCG), Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, working on the next generation high-speed I/O architecture development. His current research interests include designing low-power highspeed high-resolution analog-to-digital data converters, and high-speed I/O interface circuits. Mr. Nam was the recipient of the President Award by KAIST-ICC in 2006, the Outstanding Employee Award by ETRI in 2009, and the co-recipient of the Silver Award from the 10th Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) circuit design contest in 2009. Also, he won the best student paper award at IEEE CICC 2019. He serves as a peer reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I/II.
Cheng-Ru Ho
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2007
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2017
Cheng-Ru Ho received the B.S. degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan in 2007, the M.S. degree graduated with honor and the Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2012 and 2017, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. The focus of his interest has been DSP-enabled low spur digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) architecture, 50/100/200G Wireline system and AI Chiplet. His research interests include all-digital frequency synthesizers and asynchronous analog-to-digital data converters (AADC).
Dr. Ho is the recipients of USC Viterbi Graduate School Fellowship during 2012-2016, the USC Graduate Student Government (GSG) Travel Grant Award in 2016, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award 2016-2017, and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) in 2018. He serves in the Technical Program Committee of IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits & Systems. He is also the reviewer for the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member.