SIGNAL Newsletter

Inphi Continues Strong Support for GEDC ResearchInphi Corporation is a leader in high speed data interconnects. Inphi delivers ultra-high bandwidth optical platform solutions that enable the build out of hyper-scale Cloud datacenters, service provider networks, and emerging virtual data centers. Inphi is a pioneer of advanced semiconductor and silicon photonics solutions that expand the bandwidth and efficiency of networks. Inphi has supported GEDC for many years with both direct support and in-kind contributions.

Inphi presently supports Prof. Cressler’s team in the general research area of reliability physics modeling (both TCAD and compact) for next generation SiGe HBT high-speed wireline circuits.

Inphi also supports Prof. Ralph’s team in the area of Terabit DWDM fiber networks investigating the limits of DSP to enhance the performance of optical and electrical components in ultra-high bandwidth systems.

Keysight Expands Local Footprint with Tech Square Based Software Design CenterAs Atlanta’s Technology Square universe grows, major players in the Tech world recognize the benefits of having a presence in the center of the universe. Keysight, a leader in Electronic Test and Measurement Equipment innovation for over 75 years is one such company. Keysight has been a long term supporter of GEDC and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Keysight recently opened its Atlanta Software Design Center in the Centergy Building September 2016. To date more than 40 new hires have been added, including 25 new GT graduates. Additional space is being constructed to accommodate the expanding presence at TechSquare. The team is organized into several Agile R&D “squads” to focus on software projects on data management, visualization, Web/Cloud applications, analytics and machine learning. Emphasis is given to cultivate an open and collaborative culture to accelerate innovation. Employees are encouraged to take advantage of the proximity to GT campus for continuous learning, including seminars and advanced degrees. GT students and faculty are invited to drop in and visit Keysight in Centergy Suite 5100.

Nanowave Egnages in SiGE Research with GEDCNanowave Technologies, Inc. is a world-class designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave, millimeter-wave and electro-optic components and sub-systems. Their expertise in developing customized RF and electro-optic sensing and communications solutions makes Nanowave an indispensable partner in aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and communications markets.

Nanowave’s subsidiary, Electromagnetic Sensor Technologies, Inc. (ESTI) has a design team located in TSRB in Georgia Tech’s Technology Square, and has recently entered a new research engagement with GEDC to support Professor Cressler’s research team in the area of unique RF through mm-wave circuit solutions for space-based systems utilizing silicon-germanium (SiGe) platforms. The project, “Using SiGe Technology for Emerging RF Sensor Applications,” began in March of 2017. A long-term collaboration is anticipated.

Director’s MessageWelcome to the Georgia Electronic Design Center and to our 2017 Spring Industry Review.

The GEDC includes 15 faculty members, more than 12 post docs and research scientists and more than 110 graduate students. Together, with our industry partners, we strive to be innovation leaders spanning all aspects of high-speed electronics and photonics.

We have ongoing programs in wideband electronics, optical networks, electronic packaging, integrated MEMs, wide bandgap technologies, information theory and signal processing. We also have increasing efforts in RF-photonics and integrated photonics. These technologies have applications in communications, sensing, biology and medicine, energy and lighting, and defense and homeland security.

The mission of the GEDC is to enable our industry partners to be technology leaders and to quickly transfer the innovations of our faculty and students to industry for commercialization. The GEDC center allows our faculty and partners to build shared resources including our RF to mm-Wave to THz tools as well as our Terabit Optical Networking testbed. We have access to the best semiconductor foundries and state of the art designs tools from Keysight, Cadence and Synopsys.

We hope that you enjoy the presentations we’ve prepared and are able to meet with our students to discuss their research efforts. Our faculty-student teams are focused on one key goal – to work with our industry partners developing technology that is relevant to your business.

Best Regards,

Stephen E. RalphDirector, Georgia Electronic Design CenterDirector, GaTech Terabit Optical Networking ConsortiumProfessor, School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering

Harris Corp. Renews Commitment to GEDCHarris Corporation entered a sixth year of significant research funding for GEDC. The research is focused on robust demodulation algorithms for advanced modulation formats and integrated photonics as a new technology for wideband RF systems. Harris has licensed many distinct inventions originating from the research performed with Prof. Ralph and his team. Harris also supports a wide range of activities across campus including the ECE senior design course. Harris produces radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and antenna systems for defense and commercial applications. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, Harris has more than 23,000 employees.

Georgia Tech joins AIM PhotonicsAim Photonics is an Institute for Manufacturing Innovation initiated by the White House to enhance manufacturing in strategic technologies within the United States. AIM Photonics focuses on advancing all aspects developing the national infrastructure needed to support a sustainable integrated photonics manufacturing base in the US. Aim Photonics is supported by >$100M from the federal government and will harness the vast infrastructure of the silicon electronics industry and create new packaging and test capabilities to enable deployment of large scale photonic circuits. Prof. Ralph has teamed with Raytheon, Harris, Lockheed Martin, UCSB and UVA to develop “Analog RF Photonics” within an integrated photonics platform. This program originates from Dr. Ralph’s ongoing efforts in broadband telecom and efforts previously initiated with Harris Corp. Dr. Ralph’s team is tasked with creating innovative component designs and system architectures that exploit the silicon photonics platform in the creation of wideband analog photonic systems. His group also leads system simulation efforts including assessment of DSP strategies.

Lockheed Martin Corp. joins GEDCLockheed Martin partners with GEDC supporting the research programs of both Prof. Ralph and Cressler. Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture of advanced technology systems and services employing more than 125,000 people worldwide.Prof. Ralph’s efforts originate from LMCO’s Advanced Technology Lab and is focused on developing integrated photonics solutions for wideband frequency agile electronic warfare systems. Systems that dramatically reduced Size weight and power are preferred.Prof. Cressler’s efforts focus on the development of “smart” wideband RF 2-20 GHz front-ends implemented in advanced SiGe technology (SiGe-9HP). Wideband RF switches, LNAs and PAs will be developed and integrated to achieve novel functionality for emerging sensor needs.We welcome Lockheed Martin as a strong partner in GEDC.

GEDC welcomes new faculty Member Dr. Azadeh Ansari Dr. Azadeh Ansari joins the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the GEDC in August 2017. Dr. Ansari received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2010 and the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2013 and 2016 respectively. From Sept 2016, she has been a postdoctoral scholar in Physics at Caltech. Her research focus is RF nano/micro-electromechanical devices and integrated microsystems.

Skyworks Solutions Supports GEDC FacultySkyworks Solutions, Inc. is a semiconductor company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. The company designs integrated circuits for use in radio frequency (RF) and mobile communications systems, and its products include power amplifiers, front-end modules and RF products for handsets and wireless infrastructure equipment, with annual revenue above $2B. In 2015, Skyworks joined GEDC and has funded research projects with GEDC faculty members John Cressler and Hua Wang, both in the area of advanced power amplifiers for emerging 5G systems.

Cressler’s research with Skyworks is centered on understanding linearity constraints and their role in large constellation SiGe transmitters, and developing novel SiGe power amplifier design strategies. The project will soon enter its third year.

Skyworks is also collaborating with Professor Hua Wang and his research group through their GEDC membership. His research group, Georgia-Tech Electronics and Microsystems (GEMS) lab, will participate in the research through this collaboration.

Professor Wang’s team focuses on next-generation high-performance millimeter-wave circuits and systems for ultra-high data-rate wireless communications, such as a wide variety of 5G applications. In particular, Professor Wang’s group will explore novel and technology-agnostic mm-Wave power amplifier architectures that can achieve high PA peak efficiency, back-off efficiency, and large-signal linearity.

We thank Skyworks for continuing to maintain a strong partnership with GEDC.

GEDC Awards and Honors

Student Honors

• Z.E. Fleetwood (Advisor John Cressler) - 2016 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Phelps Award by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

• Ickhyun Song (Advisor John Cressler) - 2016 GEDC Industry Review Best Student Poster Award, for “An Investigation of the Use of Inverse-Mode SiGe HBTs as Switching Pairs for SET-Mitigated RF Mixers”

• Justin Lavrencik (Advisor Stephen Ralph) - world record optical interconnect performance; 100Gbps VCSEL based links without forward error correction. His work was presented as a “top scored” paper at the world’s largest optical communications conference OFC, Anaheim CA, March 2017

• Nader Sehatbakhsh and Alireza Nazari (Advisors Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic) - best paper award during the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-49) for “Spectral Profiling: Observer-Effect-Free Profiling by Monitoring EM Emanations”

• Eric Pollmann (Advisor Alenk Zajic) - IEEE James C. Klouda Memorial Scholarship from the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

• Nelson Lourenco (Advisor John Cressler) - 2017 SIGMA XI Best Doctoral Dissertation Award• George Tzintzarov (Advisor John Cressler) - 2017 Roger P. Webb Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior

Award• Prof. Hua Wang and Song Hu – 2016 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award 2016• Jongseok Park (Advisor Hua Wang)- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award• Jongseok Park, Moez Karim Aziz, and Taiyun Chi (Advisor Hua Wang) - 2016 IEEE SENSORS Conference Best

Live Demo Award 2nd Place• Edgar Garay (Advisor Hua Wang) - 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority PhD (MPHD) Scholarship• Min-Yu Huang and Taiyun Chi (Advisor Hua Wang) -2016 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award 2nd Place• Moez Aziz (Advisor Hua Wang) - 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship• Song Hu (Advisor Hua Wang) – 2016 Roger P. Webb ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award as the

Highest Honor for Graduate Students at Georgia Tech School of ECE• Taiyun Chi (Advisor Hua Wang) - 2016 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate

Fellowship on Medical Applications• Tso-Wei Li (Advisor Hua Wang) - 2016 ISSCC Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer

Faculty Honors

• Alenka Zajic awarded Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award• Alenka Zajic received an NSF CAREER Award to support her research project, “Propagation Modeling and

Measurements for THz Wireless Chip-to-Chip Communications”• Alenka Zajic selected for the 2016-2017 LexisNexis Dean’s Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding

educators from among untenured junior faculty at the assistant professor level• John Cressler awarded the W. Marshall Leach, Jr./Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award• John Cressler awarded the Ken Byers Teaching Fellow in Science and Religion• John Cressler received the 2017 Georgia Tech Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, from

the Georgia Tech Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)• Omer Inan received the 2017 SIGMA XI Young Faculty Award• Hua Wang received IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2017

Faculty Bios:

Matthieu Bloch is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Engineering degree from Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2003, the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. In 2008-2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Since July 2009, Dr. Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and from 2009 to 2013 Dr. Bloch was based at Georgia Tech Lorraine.

• Information Theory • Coding theory • Wireless communications • Cryptography • Distributed coordination

Professor Gee-Kung Chang received his bachelor’s degree in physics from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and his doctoral degree from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Chang devoted a total of 23 years of service to R&D at Bell Systems-Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia Technologies-where he served in various management positions including Director of Optical System Integration and Network Interoperability Group, and finally, Director and Chief Scientist of Optical Internet Research. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist of OpNext, Inc., where he was in charge of technology planning and product strategy for high-speed optical networking components and systems.

• Optoelectronics and photonics • Optical networks and systems • Optical label and packet switching technologies • Passive access networks: TDM- and WDM-PONs • Radio-over-fiber and wireless-over-fiber access networks

Professor John Cressler grew up in Georgia, and received the B.S. degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984. From 1984 until 1992 he was on the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, working on high-speed Silicon and Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices and technology. While continuing his full-time research position at IBM, he went back to pursue his graduate studies at Columbia University in 1985, receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

In 1992 he left IBM Research to pursue his dream of becoming a professor, and joined the faculty at Auburn University, where he served until 2002, when he left to join Georgia Tech. He is presently the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics at Georgia Tech

• Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices & technology • Si-based RF/microwave/mm-wave heterostructure devices & circuits • Radiation effects in electronics • Cryogenic electronics • Reliability physics & modeling • Transistor-level numerical simulation & compact circuit modeling

Farrokh Ayazi is the Ken Byers Professor in Microelectronics. Professor Ayazi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.He joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. His main research focus has been in the area of Integrated MEMS and Microsystems Technology. He has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Conference, International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), and Transducers and IEEE Sensors Conference. He is an editor for IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS).

• Integrated Micro & Nano Electromechanical Resonators • RF MEMS • VLSI Analog Integrated Circuits • MEMS Inertial Sensors (Integrated Gyroscopes and Accelerometers) • Micro and nanofabrication technologies

Azadeh Ansari received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2010 and the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2013 and 2016 respectively. From Sept 2016, she has been a postdoctoral scholar in Physics at Caltech. She will be joining the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in August 2017.Her research interests lie in the general area of RF nano/micro-electromechanical devices and integrated microsystems. She is the winner of the Towner prize for outstanding Ph.D. research award (2015) and Rackham ProQuest distinguished dissertation award (2017) for her research on GaN-based electro-acoustic devices

• Microfabrication and nanotechnology • RF MEMS and integrated circuits • Nano-/micro-scale resonant sensors • N/MEMS-based oscillators • III-V electro-acoustic devices and MMICs

Professor David V. Anderson received the B.S and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University and the Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1993, 1994, and 1999, respectively.

He is currently a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Anderson’s research interests include audio and psycho-acoustics, machine learning and signal processing in the context of human auditory characteristics, and the real-time application of such techniques. His research has included the development of a digital hearing aid algorithm that has now been made into a successful commercial product.

• Digital signal processing for speech and audio enhancement • Machine learning for audio • Signal processing for the hearing impaired • Ultra-low power signal processing systems • Bio- and Neuro-inspired signal processing techniques and architectures

Faculty Bios:

Professor Maysam Ghovanloo received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1994. He received his M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Amirkabir Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at the Industrial Development for Electronic Application, Inc., where he lead the design and development of a modular patient care monitoring system. In December 1998, he founded Sabz Negar Rayaneh Co. Ltd., developing physiology and pharmacology laboratory instruments. During summer of 2002, he was with the Advanced Bionics, Inc., working on a spinal cord stimulator. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He joined the faculty of NC State University in August 2004, where he served as an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering until June 2007. Since summer 2007, he has been on the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech, where he founded the GT-Bionics laboratory.

• Implantable microelectronic devices • Neural interfacing • Rehabilitation engineering • Bio-inspired microsystems • Medical instrumentation • Low-power analog/digital/mixed-mode integrated circuits

Professor Jennifer Hasler received her B.S.E. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in August 1991. She received her Ph.D. in computation and neural systems from California Institute of Technology in February 1997.Dr. Hasler founded the Integrated Computational Electronics (ICE) laboratory at Georgia Tech, a laboratory affiliated with the Laboratories for Neural Engineering.

• Analog-Digital Signal Processing / Mixed Signal integrated circuits (Systems on a chip) • Scaling of deep submicron devices • Floating-gate devices, circuits, and systems • The use of floating-gate MOS transistors to build “smart” interfaces for MEMS sensors • Low power electronics • Analog VLSI models of on on-chip learning and sensory processing in Neurobiology

Professor J. Stevenson Kenney was born in St. Louis, MO in 1962. He received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Dr. Kenney has over 14 years of industrial experience in wireless communications. He has held engineering and management positions at Electromagnetic Sciences, Scientific Atlanta, Pacific Monolithics, and Spectrian. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.In January 2000, Dr. Kenney returned to Georgia Tech as Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Kenney has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in the areas of microwave electronics, acoustics, and signal processing.

• RF and Microwave Power Amplifier Design • Behavioral Simulation and PA Linearization • Advanced RFIC Design • Phase Shifters and Beam Forming Networks for Smart Antennas

Benjamin Klein received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2000. From 2000-2003, Dr. Klein served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, carrying out theoretical analysis and computer simulations of next-generation semiconductor photonic devices. In August 2003 Dr. Klein joined the faculty of Georgia Tech Savannah as an Assistant Professor.

• Nanowire semiconductor devices • Quantum nanostructures • Semiconductor radiation detectors • Photonic structures

Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2004, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He joined ALZA Corporation (A Johnson and Johnson Company) in 2006 as an Engineering Intern in the Drug Device Research and Development Group, where he designed micropower, high efficiency circuits for iontophoretic drug delivery, and researched options for closed-loop drug delivery systems. In 2007, he joined Countryman Associates, Inc., Menlo Park, CA where he was Chief Engineer, involved in designing and developing high-end professional audio circuits and systems. From 2009-2013, he was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Since 2013, Dr. Inan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Program Faculty in Bioengineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2015, he is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on non-invasive physiologic monitoring for human health and performance, and applying novel sensing systems to chronic disease management and pediatric care

• Medical devices for clinically-relevant applications • Non-invasive physiological monitoring • Home monitoring of chronic disease • Cardiomechanical signals • Medical instrumentation

Professor Russell D. Dupuis earned all of his academic degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor’s degree with “Highest Honors-Bronze Tablet” in 1970. He received his master’s in electrical engineering in 1971, and his Ph.D. degree in 1973. His alma mater has honored him with the University of Illinois Alumni Loyalty Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Dupuis worked at Texas Instruments from 1973 to 1975. In 1975, he joined Rockwell International where he was the first to demonstrate that MOCVD could be used for the growth of high-quality semiconductor thin films and devices. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979 where he extended his work to the growth of InP-InGaAsP by MOCVD. In 1989 he became a chaired professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In August 2003, he was appointed Steve W. Chaddick Chair in Electro-Optics at Georgia Tech in ECE. He is currently studying the growth of III-V compound semiconductor devices by MOCVD, including materials in the InAlGaN/GaN, InAlGaAsP/GaAs, InAlGaAsSb, and InAlGaAsP/InP systems

• Semiconductor materials and devices • Epitaxial growth by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition • Heterojunction structures in III-V compound semiconductors

Shyh-Chiang Shen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from National Taiwan University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001. During his graduate study at the University of Illinois, he was involved in the development of low-voltage RF MEMS switches and ion-implanted GaAs MESFET using e-beam direct gate-writing photolithography techniques. Dr. Shen joined Xindium Technologies, Inc. as a senior processing engineer in June 2001. He developed a proprietary high-performance InP SHBT technology for 40Gb/s OEIC applications and InP-based power HBT technology for wireless communications. In August 2004, he joined the HSIC group at the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral research associate to work on exciting research projects. In January 2005, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor.

Stephen E. Ralph is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received the BEE degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1988 for his work on highly nonequilibrium carrier transport in semiconductor devices.He is currently the Director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, a cross-disciplinary electronics and photonics research center focused on the synergistic development of high-speed electronic and photonic components and signal processing to enable revolutionary system performance. He is also the founder and director of the new Terabit Optical Networking Consortium, an industry led communications and information technology consortium.

Professor Manos Tentzeris was born and grew up in Piraeus, Greece. He graduated from Ionidios Model School of Piraeus in 1987 and he received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, in 1992 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 and 1998.He is currently a Professor with the School of ECE, Georgia Tech, head of the A.T.H.E.N.A. lab, and he has published more than 550 papers in refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings, 4 books and 23 book chapters.

Hua Wang (M’05‒SM’15) received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He worked at Intel Corporation and Skyworks Solutions. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 2012. Dr. Wang is interested in innovating mixed-signal, RF, and mm-Wave integrated circuits and hybrid systems for wireless communication, radar, imaging, and bioelectronics applications.

Alenka Zajić joined the faculty of Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall 2012. She received B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade and a Ph.D. (2008) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. From 2001 to 2003, she was a design engineer for Skyworks Solutions. In 2009, she was awarded the Naval Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship and spent one year at NRL in Washington D.C. From 2010 to 2012, she was a visiting assistant professor in School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

Faculty Bios:

• Information Theory • Coding theory • Wireless communications • Cryptography • Distributed coordination

• Terabit Optical Networking • Simulation and modeling of DWDM fiber systems • Efficient signal processing for high-speed communications • Integrated photonics

• High sensitivity, nitride-based UV optoelectronics: detectors and emitters • III-N-based high-voltage field-effect transistors • III-N heterojunction bipolar transistors • Advanced semiconductor fabrication techniques • Integrated circuits technologies

• 3D-Printed/Inkjet-Printed RF Electronics, Batteries and Sensors • “Green” and sustainable energy harvesting • Nanotechnology-based Ultrasensitive Sensors • Origami Antennas and RF Modules with Morphing Characteristics • Novel Flexible Electronics, Packaging & 3D Modules up to mm-wave Frequency-range • Wearable and Implantable Wireless Body-Area Networks • Novel RFID Antennas, Architectures and Sensor Systems

• Broadband and energy-efficient RF/mm-Wave integrated circuits and systems •Self-healing integrated systems for communication, radar, and biosensing • Sub-TeraHz system integration for spectroscopy and imaging • Hand-held Point-of-Care (PoC) sensing platforms for biomedical and environmental applications • Fundamental noise modeling in high-precision measurements

• On-Chip and Off-Chip Interconnects and Communication in Computer Systems • Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channel Modeling and Measurements • Underwater Wireless Channel Modeling and Measurements • Electromagnetic Security and Compatibility • Applied Electromagnetics • Wireless Communications

The faculty members of the GEDC thank Dr. Steve Cross, Executive Vice President for Research and Dr. Oliver Brand Executive Director of IEN for their continued support of our center. This support enables our Industry partnerships possible. The faculty also thank all those within the Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology who provide invaluable assistance in running our programs.

Moon-Kyu Cho received the B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea, in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively. In October 2014, he joined the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) in the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, as a Research Engineer.Dr. Cho was the recipient of the 2011 and 2012 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Electron Device Society, Seoul Chapter and the 2013 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Seoul Chapter. He was also the recipient of the 2012 and 2013 Best Paper Award and Best Demo Award of the International SoC Design Conference. He has six Patents associated with bi-directional T/R module architectures, more than 20 publications and 2 invited conference presentations.

• Wideband/narrow-band phased array antennas systems • Integrated radio and radar systems in silicon technologies for wireless communication • Wireless sensing and detection • Imaging applications at RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-millimeter-wave regimes

Dr. Varghese Antony Thomas is a research engineer at Terabit Optical Networking Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has an interdisciplinary background in optical and wireless communication. He received his PhD degree from University of Southampton in 2015. As a PhD student, he worked in the wireless communications research group of University of Southampton, where he designed radio over fiber architectures for several applications. He received an MSc (Distinction) degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Southampton, UK in 2011. Prior to that he obtained his BE (Honors) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Goa Campus) in 2010. He is a recipient of the several academic awards, including the Commonwealth Scholarship of the Government of UK, Mayflower Scholarship of University of Southampton, Summer Research Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences and undergraduate academic scholarships

• Long haul optical communications • Short reach optical communications • Simulation capability development • Optical Wireless Integration

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Contact GEDC

AddressGeorgia Electronic Design CenterTechnology Square Research Building (TSRB)85 Fifth Street NW,Atlanta, GA 30308

Phone Number404.894.6359

Websitegedc.gatech.edu