Research Group
Meghna Madhusudan
Yashodharma Pathaje
Bosi Yang
Anees M
Ethan Hill
Sanjoy Basak
Krishna Priyanka
Professor Harjani
Current Students
Alumni
Post-Docs
- Martin Sturm, Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 [Linkedin]
Ph.D. Degree
- Rongtai Wang (June 1995)
Suppression of Acoustic Feedback in Hearing Aids: System and Circuit Design - Feng Wang (March 1997) [Linkedin]
Optimal Design of Modulators for Oversampled Converters - Jonghae Kim, (April 2001)
CMOS Transceiver Design for Short Range Wireless Telemetry - Wooyoung Choi, (December 2001)[Linkedin]
Optimal Test-Set Generation for Analog Sampled-Data Systems - Liang Dai, (currently at Qualcomm, San Diego, California) [Linkedin]
Design of High Performance VCO for Communication Systems, April 2002 - Yongwang Ding, (currently at Qualcomm, San Francisco, California) [Linkedin]
Research Topic, Linear RF CMOS Circuit Design, June 2004 - Kavita Nair (currently at IBM, New York) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: High-Speed High-SFDR Data Converters for Wireless Basestations, August 2004 - Byunghoo Jung (currently at Purdue University, Indiana) [website]
Research Topic: High-Speed Analog RF Front-End Circuit Design, December 2004 - Frank Dropps (currently at Qlogic, Minnesota) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: High Speed, High Resolution and High SFDR Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture and Design, May 2006 - Kin-Joe Sham (currently Vice President of Research & Development at OrthoCor Medical, Minnesota) [Linkedin]
Crosstalk Mitigation Techniques in High-Speed Serial Links, April 2009 - Liuchun Cai (currently at Data Sciences International, St. Paul, Minnesota) [Linkedin]
Advanced Architectures for Next Generation Wireless Integrated Circuits, May 2009 - Narasimha Lanka (March 2010) [Linkedin]
Fast Hopping Frequency Synthesis Techniques using Injection Locking - Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi (April 2010) [Linkedin]
Future Generation Architectures and Circuits for High-Speed I/O Links - Satwik Patnaik (September 2010) [Linkedin]
Circuits for Multi-Antenna Communication Systems - Shubha Bommalingaiahnapallya (May 2011) [Linkedin]
Realizing Analog Circuits in Digital Processes - Taehyoun Oh (Currently at IBM, NY), [Linkedin]
Research Topic: MIMO Crosstalk Cancellation & Signal Reutilization Architecture for High-Speed I/Os, May 8, 2012 - Jaehyup Kim (currently at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA), [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Design of CMOS micro-NMR ICs, June 6, 2011 - Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Currently at IBM, T.J. Watson Labs, NY) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Circuit Techniques for Cognitive Radio Frontends, June 27, 2012 - Martin Sturm (Currently doing a Post Doc at UofM, Analog Design Group)[Linkedin]
Passive Switched-Capacitor Filter Design, Analysis, and optimization for Wideband Spectrum Sensing, January 30, 2013 - Sudhir Kudva (Currently at NVIDIA, NC)[Linkedin]
High Efficiency, Low Cost Fully Integrated DC-DC Converter Solution, April 4, 2013 - Mohammad Elbadry (Currrently at Qualcomm, CA)[Linkedin]
Quadrature Frequency Synthesis for Wideband Wireless Transceivers - Sachin Kalia (Currently at Intel, OR) [Linkedin]
Circuit Design Techniques for Wideband Phased Array, June 2015 - Rakesh Kumar Palani (Currently at Broadcom, CA) [Linkedin]
Design of PVT Tolerant Inverter Based Circuits for Low Supply Voltage, June 2015 - Ashutosh Mehra (Currently at Medtronic, MN) [Linkedin]
Ultra-Wideband Transceiver Design and Optimization, June 2015 - Mustafijur Rahman (Currently at Qualcomm, CA), [Linkedin]
Design of Low Power Integrated Radios, June 2016 - Anindya Saha, (Currently at Intel Corp, CA) [Linkedin]
Data Conversion Techniques for Next Generation Communications, Dec 2017 - Hundo Shin (June 2017)
Channelization Techniques for Wide-Band Radios using Analog-FFT - Xingyi Hua, (Currently at Skyworks, CA) [Linkedin]
Power Management Techniques for Supercapacitor Based IoT Applications, Jan 2018 - Qingrui Meng, (Currently at Skyworks, IA)[Linkedin]
Circuit Technique for Multiple and Wideband Beamforming, June 22, 2018 - Saurabh Chaubey, (August 2018) [Linkedin]
Circuit Techniques for Efficient Integrated Power Management in Standard CMOS - Naser Mousavi, (August 2019)
Ultra Fast Frequency Hopping Transceiver Design and Implementation for Secure Wireless Communications - Zhiheng Wang (November 2019)
From Stochastic to Unary Computation: Filter Applications - Shiva Zamali-Zavareh (December 2, 2019)
Jitter Suppression Techniques for Communication Systems - Jitesh Poojary (August, 2023)
High Linearity Receiver in the Presence of Blockers: Circuit Design and Layout Automation
M.S. Degree
- Brian Blow [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Micromachined Silicon Architecture Using Capacitive and Piezoelectric Sensing Techniques, April 1992 - Nga Nguyen, ()
Research Topic: Design and Analysis of a CMOS Voltage Regulator, June 1993 - Sarika Agarwal [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Performance Modeling of Algorithmic and Successive Approximation A/D Converters, March 1994 - Jianfeng Shao
Research Topic: Macromodeling of Analog Circuits for Hierarchical Circuit Design, June 1994 - Thomas Lee [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Feedforward Residue Compensation for Reducing Tones in Sigma-Delta Modulators, May 1995 - Andrew Cable [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A 6-Bit 40MHz CMOS Current-Mode Subranging A/D Converter, June 1995 - Nicholas Stessman [Linkedin]
Research Topic: System Level Design for Test in Analog Circuits, July 1995 - Ronald Vincent Jaworski [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Analog Implementation of the FDTS Detection Algorithm for Magnetic Recording, October 1995 - Xin Wang
Research Topic: Analog Control Unit for a New KBAFC Hearing Aid, March 1996 - Oyvind Birkenes [Linkedin]
Research Topic: CMOS Circuits for Short Range Wireless Communications, July 1997 - Mike Butenhoff [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A 200MHz Fixed-Delay Tree Search Tau=1 Detector for Disk-Drive Applications, July 1997 - Marius Dina [Linkedin]
Research Topic: High Speed Timing Recovery Circuit for Disk-Drive Applications, July 1997 - Ray Barnett [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Analog Implementation of High Speed Signal Equalization for Disk-Drive Data Detection, July 1997 - YuQing Yang [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Low Power, Oversampled, Sensor Interface Electronics, 1998 - Wooyoung Choi, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Analyzing On-chip Test Techniques for Switched Capacitor Circuits using pFEAT, April 1998 - Kavita Nair, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Compact, Ultra Low Power Continuous Time GM-C Filter Design, June 1998 - Liang Dai, [Linkedin]
"Switch Opamp based CMOS Sample-and-Hold Circuit Design", November, 1998 - Yongwang Ding, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: An Imbedded Strain Gage Interface Circuit, June 1999 - Jeremy Kuehlwein, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: CMOS Reader for Disk Drive MR Preamplifier, 1999 - Ron Alan Balczewski [Linkedin]
Capacitive Power Converters: Framework, Design & Analysis, April 2000 - Douglas Warren Dean [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A 1 GHz Differential to Single-Ended Instrumentation Amplifier, May 2000 - Zixiang Yang
Research Topic: A Passive Wireless in vivo Transponder Design - Erik H. Lange
Research Topic: A 15-Bit CMOS Feedforward Residue Compensated A/D Converter, August 2000 - Randolf B. Hieneke, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A Low-Voltage Integrated Class AB CMOS Amplifier, July 2002 - James Keoppe [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Enhanced Analytic Noise Model for RF CMOS Design, December 2004 - Shubba Bommalingaiahnapallya, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: N-Tone Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters, December 2004 - Yi-Hung Tseng, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Ultra Low Power UWB Impulse Radio Design, April 2005 - Jayant Parathasarathy, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Novel Integratable Passive Notch Filter Implementation for RF Image Rejection, November 2005 - Dustin Steffenson, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: 20 Gbps Clock-Recovery Circuit Implementation in a 90nm Silicon CMOS Process Technology, February 2006 - Shen Dong, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Impact of Discontinuity on High-Speed Interconnect Design, August 2006 - Umaikhe Eberechukwu Omole [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A Multi-band Voltage Controlled Oscillator for OFDM Based Cognitive Overlay Systems, June 2007 - Joshua John Wibben, [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A High Efficiency On-Chip Power Supply - Emily Carroll,
High Frequency Wide bandwidth mixer-first receiver design”, April 2019
Others
- Kang Ning, (M.S. level) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Ultra-Low Power Analog Design, May 2015 - Jackson Harvey (Ph.D level)(abd) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Designing ultra-low-power wireless transceivers - Hongu-Li (M.S. level) [Linkedin]
- Chris Zillmer (M.S. level)(abd) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: A compact, low power, integrated temperature sensing system - Michael J. Gaboury (abd)(@ Polar Semiconductor Inc, Minnesota) [Linkedin]
- Ming-Ta Hseih (M.S. level)(plan b)(@)
- Deepak Haran (M.S. level)(plan b)(@) [Linkedin]
- Jeffrey D. Loukusa (M.S. level)(plan b)(@) [Linkedin]
- Eric Severson (Senior honors) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Ultra Compact DC-DC Converter - Zain Asgar (@ Nvidia, CA) [Linkedin]
Research Topic: Network on a Chip
Ph.D. Degree
- Meghna Madhusudan
- Sanjoy Basak
- Yashodharma Parthaje
- Bosi Yang
- Divya Yogi (co-advised with Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar)
- Endalkachew Gebru (co-advised with Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar)
MS
- Anees Mohammad
- Priyanka Bhavaraju
- Meghal Shah
BS
- Ethan Hill