RESEARCH NEWS THE SIGNAL Tektronix and GEDC have initiated a new collaboration focused on the development of machine learning based tools to enhance the capabilities of high-speed data acquisition equipment. Tektronix is a major producer and innovator in the test and measurement community, and has been manufacturing leading edge oscilloscopes for more than 70 years. Test and measurement equipment, like modern communications systems, rely on increasingly sophisticated algorithms to extract unprecedented system performance. The team of Professor Stephen E. Ralph, working with Tektronix engineers, will develop new efficient algorithms to enhance the capabilities of test equipment while also ensuring systems under test will perform as intended when deployed. The team will use both conventional signal processing strategies, as well as advance machine learning paradigms. Professor Ralph’s team has a lengthy track record of transferring innovation from his team to industry, including numerous licensing agreements from other industrial collaborations. A key element in the success of these efforts is the close collaboration of the Industrial and Georgia Tech teams. Importantly, these efforts benefit from the related research activities within Professor Ralph’s Terabit Optical Networking Group. THE SIGNAL New Cyber Security Techniques sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and NSF have sponsored over $10 million in new research with GEDC to develop passive cyber security techniques. Prof. Zajic and her team in EMC^2 lab have pioneered a new research field based on their breakthrough idea of using electromagnetic emanations from computers to monitor software execution. Non-intrusive monitoring is useful in general, and fundamentally important for computer systems where traditional software monitoring approaches are difficult or impossible to use. These systems are deployed in vehicles, medical devices, smart buildings, industrial controls, legacy devices, and most other “Internet- of-Everything” scenarios. The EMC^2 work has been recognized through multiple best paper awards and several patents. The team has demonstrated this technology to State of Georgia congressional staffers and to Northrop Grumman’s leadership at Tech Expo. This technology will be further developed into a product that secures vehicle-tailored flight control algorithms for the Global Hawk. Additionally, this work has led to discoveries of new side channels that are very useful for hardware intrusion detection, which led to $5.3M of new funding from the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation.
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RESEARCH NEWS
THE SIGNAL
Tektronix and GEDC have initiated a new collaboration focused on the development of machine learning based tools to enhance the capabilities of high-speed data acquisition equipment. Tektronix is a major producer and innovator in the test and measurement community, and has been manufacturing leading edge oscilloscopes for more than 70 years. Test and measurement equipment, like modern communications systems, rely on increasingly sophisticated algorithms to extract unprecedented system performance. The team of Professor Stephen E. Ralph, working with Tektronix engineers, will develop new efficient algorithms to enhance the capabilities of test equipment while also ensuring systems under test will perform as intended when deployed. The team will use both conventional signal processing strategies, as well as advance machine learning paradigms. Professor Ralph’s team has a lengthy track record of transferring innovation from his team to industry, including numerous licensing agreements from other industrial collaborations. A key element in the success of these efforts is the close collaboration of the Industrial and Georgia Tech teams. Importantly, these efforts benefit from the related research activities within Professor Ralph’s Terabit Optical Networking Group.
THE SIGNAL
New Cyber Security Techniques sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA and NSF have sponsored over $10 million in new research with GEDC to develop passive cyber security techniques. Prof. Zajic and her team in EMC^2 lab have pioneered a new research field based on their breakthrough idea of using electromagnetic emanations from computers to monitor software execution. Non-intrusive monitoring is useful in general, and fundamentally important for computer systems where traditional software monitoring approaches are difficult or impossible to use. These systems are deployed in vehicles, medical devices, smart buildings, industrial controls, legacy devices, and most other “Internet-of-Everything” scenarios. The EMC^2 work has been recognized through multiple best paper awards and several patents. The team has demonstrated this technology to State of Georgia congressional staffers and to Northrop Grumman’s leadership at Tech Expo. This technology will be further developed into a product that secures vehicle-tailored flight control algorithms for the Global Hawk. Additionally, this work has led to discoveries of new side channels that are very useful for hardware intrusion detection, which led to $5.3M of new funding from the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation.
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Director’s MessageWelcome to the Georgia Electronic Design Center and to our 2019 Spring Industry Review
We have access to the best semiconductor foundries and state of the art designs tools from Keysight, Cadence and Synopsys. This year we also welcome Tektronix as a new member of GEDC.
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 to develop technology that is relevant to your business.
Lockheed Martin Corp. Continues Support for GEDC
Best Regards,Stephen E. RalphDirector, Georgia Electronic Design CenterDirector, GaTech Terabit Optical Networking ConsortiumProfessor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lockheed Martin continues its partnership with GEDC. For more than 3 years, Lockheed Martin has supported the research programs of both Professors Ralph and Cressler. Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company engaged in the research, design, development, and manufacture of advanced technology systems and services employing more than 125,000 people worldwide.
Professor Ralph’s efforts are with LMCO’s Advanced Technology Lab. The current effort is focused on the development of an RF-over-Fiber Technology Roadmap and augments ongoing efforts with AIM Photonics on the development of analog RF photonics within an integrated silicon photonics platform. The study spans mixed signal front ends, bidirectional fiber transport and development of high capacity fiber links that transparently provide high bandwidth electrical paths between systems using standard protocols.
Professor 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.
The GEDC includes 18 faculty members, more than 14 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 electronics and photonics. We have ongoing programs in wideband electronics for 5G and beyond, SiCMOS for sensing, SiGe for harsh environments, high capacity optical communications, photonic and electronic packaging, integrated MEMs, wide bandgap technologies, information theory and signal processing and machine learning. Wideband RF, RF-photonics and integrated photonics and signal processing are key technologies. These technologies have applications in communications, sensing, biology and medicine, energy and lighting, and defense and homeland security.
Our mission 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 also allows our faculty and partners to develop and maintain shared resources including our RF to mm-Wave to THz tools as well as our integrated optics facility.
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RESEARCH NEWS
Vibrobots: MEMs vibration- driven robots
GEDC and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) continue to actively collaborate on several significant research projects. Professor Ralph’s team is collaborating on a number of programs, including GTRI’s BLUESHIFT program where Ph.D. student Christian Bottenfield has made major contributions by assisting with the tapeout of three radio frequency photonic integrated circuits.
Professor Ralph has also joined with GTRI to submit high-level competitive proposals. Recent submissions include joint proposals to DARPA’s Photonic Edge AI Compact Hardware (PEACH) and Electronic Resurgence Initiative: Defense Applications (ERI:DA) broad agency announcements.
Professor Cressler’s research team continues its support of GTRI’s MAESTRO and TRAFFIC programs, contributing to eight tapeout submissions, a provisional patent, and a presentation at the 2019 GOMACTech Conference.
Both BLUESHIFT, MAESTRO, and TRAFFIC are high-profile strategic internal research and development programs. These programs are multi-year efforts with major investment from GTRI that are intended to strategically develop and expand the internal integrated circuit design capability to support evolving sponsor needs.
Emerging next generation wireless communication devices call for high-performance filters that operate at 3-30 GHz. Bulk and surface acoustic wave devices, that have been traditionally used in the RF front-end for filtering applications, have a limited range of operational frequencies, mostly below 2.6 GHz. Funding from IQE plc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced semiconductor wafer products, has allowed Professor Azadeh Ansari’s research group to focus on the design and fabrication of acoustic resonators and filters that operate at > 3 GHz, with high quality factor and high electromechanical coupling, useful for 5G applications.
With the support of the IEN MIAMuR Center, another area of research pursued by Professor Ansari’s group also aims at bridging micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology with robotics by taking advantage of novel nanofabrication technologies to build small-scale robots. As such, Professor Ansari’s research group has designed and fabricated miniaturized vibration-driven robots (vibrobots) that utilize mechanical oscillations from an on-board piezoelectric actuator to create locomotion in a specified direction. Such vibrobots weigh less than 5 mg and are smaller than 1 mm3 in size.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsors the Wideband Millimeter-Wave Digital Phased Array program with Professor Hua Wang through the MTO Millimeter Wave Digital Arrays (MIDAS) program. Millimeter-wave bands are well suited for communications on small mobile platforms where narrow antenna beams from small radiating apertures can collectively provide enhanced link security and robustness. Unlike most existing “static” millimeter-wave applications (e.g., back-haul links), future millimeter-wave links may operate in highly “dynamic” environments, such as wireless Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality and vehicle- / drone- / and machine-based communication, necessitating rapid and precise beam-forming and beam-tracking. In parallel, future dense deployment of millimeter-wave links will result in congested and contested environments, and tracking and rejecting “unknown blockers” will become essential.
Professor Wang and his team are pioneers in the the architectures and designs of the next-generation of wideband millimeter-wave digital phased arrays. These systems can perform, without backend computation, dynamic beam-steering for desired signals, rapid spatial notching for unknown interferences, full field-of-view coverage, and instantaneous wideband image rejection. This technology enables future ultra-low-latency MIMO systems and fiber-wireless networks for 5G and beyond-5G (tactile network) communications.
CMOS Millimeter-Wave Digital Phased Array
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Georgia Tech begins 3rd Project with AIM Photonics
The GEDC is funded for a 3rd year for collaborative efforts with AIM Photonics. Following a successful project tailored to advance the performance and understanding of the AIM silicon photonics foundry, the Georgia Tech team, led by Professor Ralph, was awarded funding for a 3rd project that investigates novel direct detect receivers for access networks, and optical down converters for dynamic spectral access, crafted in an integrated silicon photonics (SiP) platform. AIM Photonics is one of 17 Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation created to enhance manufacturing in strategic technologies within the United States. In this continuing effort, Professor Ralph has teamed with Lockheed Martin, Harris, Raytheon, UCSB, and UVA. This project continues Professor Ralph’s ongoing efforts in microwave photonics initiated with Harris Corp. Professor Ralph’s team is tasked with creating innovative component designs and system architectures that exploit the silicon photonics platform in the creation of the wide-band analog photonic systems. His group leads system simulation efforts including assessment of DSP strategies and packaging strategies.
RESEARCH NEWS
Integrated Photonics Initiative and Laboratory Expand within GEDC
Integrated photonics has become a disruptive technology for a number of applications including wireless, lidar, telecom, data centers and sensing. The GEDC began an initiative two years ago to enable our faculty to innovate and compete in this expanding technology space. GEDC’s Professor Stephen E. Ralph and Professor John D. Cressler, with Dr. Andy Stark of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, have continued their collaborative efforts and expanded the capabilities of the GEDC integrated photonics laboratory. Characterization capabilities include optical sources and detection for both O-band and C-band wavelengths with modulation and detection capabilities beyond 40GHz with plans to enable full electro-optical characterization to 110GHz, and thus complement GEDC’s >270GHz electronic characterization capabilities. These efforts bring together Professor Cressler’s established efforts in broadband SiGe electronics, Professor Ralph’s experience with high capacity optical systems and the wide-band optical/wireless systems expertise of Dr. Andy Stark and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. These efforts have generated a number of important publications and patent applications. Furthermore, the capabilities and recent innovations have been key elements that led to a number of funded programs and provided critical results used for new DARPA and industry proposals. The teams continue working with numerous integrated photonics foundries including IHP, Global Foundries, Sandia Labs and the AIM Photonics foundry.
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RESEARCH NEWS MEMs accelerometers for body-worn devices
Increasing incidence of cardiopulmonary diseases is resulting in a global mortality rate of over 18 million people annually. Implementation of early detection strategies to identify cardiopulmonary dysfunction encourages preventive care, facilitates treatment and delays the progression of these chronic conditions. This requires the development of unobtrusive wearable sensors capable of seamless monitoring of the patient’s vital parameters. With the support of the Georgia Research Alliance, National Institute for Health and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Professor Farrokh Ayazi’s group has developed a high precision micro-accelerometer contact microphone which enables simultaneous and long-term monitoring of heart rate and sound, respiratory rate, lung sounds, and body motion of the individual. The encapsulated sensor utilizes nano-gap MEMS technology to achieve high sensitivity towards micro-vibrations occurring on the body surface due to cardiopulmonary activity, thus capturing abnormal heart and lung sounds with high fidelity. This technology enables people either suffering from, or at high risk of, contracting chronic cardiopulmonary conditions to enhance self-care in a feasible and ergonomic manner using a single microsensor.P.Gupta, Y. Jeong, J. Choi, M. Faingold, A. Daruwalla, and F. Ayazi, “Precision high-bandwidth out-of-plane accelerometer as contact microphone for body-worn auscultation devices,” 2018 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
Skyworks Sponsors GEDC Research Targeting 5G Power Amplifiers
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., with an annual revenue exceeding $2B, designs integrated circuits for use in radio frequency (RF) and mobile communications systems. Its products include power amplifiers, front-end modules, and RF products for handsets and wireless infrastructure equipment. In 2015 Skyworks joined GEDC as an industry partner and has continually funded research with Professor Cressler in the area of advanced SiGe power amplifiers for emerging 5G systems. Professor Cressler’s research with Skyworks is centered on developing novel ultra-high linearity SiGe power amplifier designs for 5G systems. That work recently led to a student paper presented at the 2018 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The research is continuing, with an end-goal of exploiting the unique advantages of SiGe technology in 5G systems.“A Highly Linear, High-Power 802.11ac/ax WLAN SiGe HBT Power Amplifier Using a Compact 2nd Harmonic-Shorted Four-way Transformer and Integrated Thermal Sensors.” I. Ju, M. McPartlin, C.-W.P. Huang, M. Doherty, B. Vaillancourt, C.D. Cheon, and J.D. Cressler.
Research Collaborations: VCSEL based Optical Interconnect Transmission
GEDC supports research collaborations with Industry and with other universities. Our worldwide reach is evident with a recent extended visit from Ewa Simpanen of Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ms. Simpanen is a graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Anders Larsson, recognized worldwide for his team’s leading efforts in high-speed vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) design. The collaborative efforts of Professor Larsson and Professor Ralph have led to a number of innovations, industry firsts, invited talks, and new research sponsorship. Recently Justin Lavrencik, a graduate student in Professor Ralph’s Terabit Optical Networking Team, demonstrated a wavelength division multiplexing scheme using energy efficient vertical cavity surfaces and sophisticated signal processing methods to transport 800 Gbps, error free, over 100m of optical fiber. This technology is deployable in data centers and high performance computing systems. The lasers were designed and fabricated by Ms. Simpanen, and the work was done in collaboration with Professor Larsson, HP Labs, and Corning. A key feature of the experimental data is the avoidance of forward error correction and the associate power requirements and latency, primary metrics for high performance computing and datacenters. The work was reported at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in March, 2019.
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ATHENA GROUP CONTINUES TO ADVANCE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH NEWS
Nanowave Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, is a multi-$M company that conceives, designs, and builds integrated RF, microwave and mm-wave components, subsystems and systems. Nanowave Technologies support a diverse set of applications spanning defense, avionics, radar, space systems, communications, radio astronomy, and industrial applications. A longtime supporter of GEDC research with a companion research facility located in TSRB, Nanowave supports GEDC’s Professor Cressler in SiGe research in the area of novel wide-band (2-20 GHz) microwave true-time-delay, power detection and transmit/receive SiGe ASICs for insertion in next-generation terrestrial and space borne radar systems.
Nanowave is a Key Partner in GEDC’s SiGe Research Portfolio
Orbital Microsystems Partners with GEDC on Cubesat Instrumentation
Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), utilizes a Cubesat constellation in Earth orbit to provide space-based weather observation data. Recent advances in satellite miniaturization have allowed OMS to develop a low-cost satellite constellation furnished with proprietary state-of-the-art sensing instrumentation to deliver meaningful and timely weather data, giving their clients the ability to make informed, proactive decisions based on direct Earth surface observations. OMS now supports Professor Cressler in SiGe research in the area of novel mm-wave SiGe radiometer ASICs, which will be utilized in OMS’ satellite systems for remote sensing from space.
The ATHENA group, led by Professor Tentzeris, explores the advancing and development of novel technologies for wireless, RF, mm-wave, and sub-THz applications. Their research targets emerging electromagnetic applications including wireless energy harvesting, smart skins, reconfigurable origami structures, and advanced RF packaging schemes. These wireless applications are assisted and enabled through the ATHENA group’s development of low-cost additive manufacturing processes, promoting rapid electronic prototyping and application-specific RF design from the component to system level. Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer efforts span UHF to mm-wave frequencies to enable self-powered sensor nodes for ubiquitous IoT applications. Robust smart skins utilize miniaturized mm-wave reflector arrays to enable kilometer-range RFID, localization, and environmental sensing. Reconfigurable origami structures help realize tunable and deployable electromagnetic filters and antennas. Ink-jet and 3D printing technology is used to efficiently manufacture system-in-package modules and antennas for mm-wave radar and 5G applications. Altogether, the ATHENA group seeks the development and convergence of novel electromagnetic solutions for the next-generation of wireless systems.
Harris Corporation entered an eighth year of strong support for GEDC. The current efforts support Professor Ralph’s team and are focused on development of digital signal processing DSP for coherent links using machine learning techniques, development of photonic and DSP strategies for high capacity wireless links and simulation, and analysis tools for coherent microwave photonic links. Harris has licensed many distinct inventions originating from the research performed with Professor Ralph and his team. Graduate student Jerrod Langston has accepted a full time position with Dr. Richard DeSalvo’s team at Harris Corp. in their Melbourne, FL facility. Dr. DeSalvo is a Senior Scientist in the Microwave Photonics Group at Harris, and an adjunct faculty member within the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Harris also continues supporting 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 stock- holders recently approved a merger with L3. The resulting firm, L3 Harris Technologies, will have combined revenues of ~$15.6 billion, making it a top 10 defense contractor in both the U.S. and the world.
Harris renews commitment to GEDC
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AWARDS FACULTY Manos TenTzeris
IEEE Fellow• Origami RF research was featured in a publication in the Proceedings of National Academy of Science
(PNAS) in November 2018.• Listed among the 25 featured “Science@Microsoft”Technologies highlighting the most significant
achievements of Microsoft Research over its 20 years of activities [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/researchconnections/science/stories/anti-counterfeit.aspx]
• 2015-2020 IEEE CRFID Distinguished Lecturer
AWARDS STUDENTS2019 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar (Min-Yu Huang)2019 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (David Munzer)2019 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship (Sensen Li)2019 Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award (Huy Thong Ngyuen)2019 Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award (Edgar Garay)2019 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award (Min-Yu Huang)2019 GRA of Exellence Award GT-ECE (Mehrdad Tahmasbi)2018 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award 2nd Place (Sensen Li, Taiyun Chi, Huy Thong Nguyen, and Tzu-Yuan Huang)2018 Graduate Student Retaining Inspirational Students in Technology and Engineering (RISE) Scholarship (Edgar Garay)2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (Sanghoon Lee)2018 Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Award of the Georgia Tech Chapter (Taiyun Chi)2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) Doctoral Research Grant (Sensen Li)2018 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship (Min-Yu Huang)2018 Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award (Doohwan Jung)2018 Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award (Sensen Li)2018 IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award 2nd Place (Fei Wang)2018 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award (Taiyun Chi)
Professor Bloch’s latest research efforts, funded by NSF, have focused on the design of provably covert quantum communication systems. By carefully exploiting the presence of noise in quantum channels, and designing appropriate modulation and coding schemes, Professor Bloch’s research group recently proved the possibility of generating secret keys against quantum adversaries while simultaneously guaranteeing that, under certain conditions, no statistical test, no matter how powerful, could detect the presence of the communication on the quantum channel better than a blind test. Professor Bloch also recently started a Vertically Integrated Project team comprised of twenty undergraduate students and five graduate students to design “agile communication architectures.” The objective is to leverage the convergence of machine learning algorithms and computing at the edge of radio networks with software defined radios to improve the situational awareness of radios and achieve improved spectrum usage. Specific efforts include modulation format recognition, online learning for dynamic spectrum access, and reinforcement learning for congestion control.
RESEARCH NEWS National Science foundation funds quantum communications effort
David V. AndersonProfessor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Signal Processing; Computer Systems and Software; Electronic Design; Bioengineering
He is currently a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Anderson’s research interests include machine learning and signal processing, audio and psycho-acoustics, 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.
Professor Anderson was awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for excellence as a young educator and researcher in 2004 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in the same year. He has over 200 technical publications and 8 patents/patents pending.
David V. Anderson is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He 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.
Azadeh AnsariAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Signal Processing; Computer Systems & Software; Electronic Design; Bioengineering
She received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2010. She earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2013 and 2016 respectively, focusing upon III-V semiconductor and MEMS devices and microsystems for RF applications. Prior to joining the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech in Aug. 2017, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics at California Institute of Technology from September 2016 to July 2017.
Professor Ansari is the recipient of the 2017 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan for her research on “GaN Integrated Microsystems for RF Applications.” She received the University of Michigan Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research in 2016.
Azadeh Ansari is an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research is in the field of nano/micro electromechanical systems (N/MEMS), Radio Frequency (RF) integrated systems, and micro-robotics.
Farrokh Ayazi Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Integrated Micro & Nano Electromechanical Resonators, Wearable Microdevices, RF MEMS, VLSI Analog Integrated Circuits, MEMS Inertial Sensors (Integrated Gyroscopes and Accelerometers), Micro and Nanofabrication Technologies
His main research interest lies in the area of integrated Micro/Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on acoustic resonators and advanced inertial sensors. He is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and a past editor for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. He was the general chair of the IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems conference in 2014, held in San Francisco, CA. Professor Ayazi was the co-founder and CTO of Qualtré, a spin-out of his research laboratory that commercialized bulk acoustic wave silicon gyroscopes for high precision applications, which was acquired by Panasonic in 2016. Dr. Ayazi is a fellow of IEEE and holds 50 patents.
Farrokh Ayazi is the Ken Byers Professor of Microsystems in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
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FACULTY BIOS
Azadeh AnsariAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Signal Processing; Computer Systems & Software; Electronic Design; Bioengineering
Matthieu R. BlochAssociate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Telecommunications
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Since July 2009, Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and from 2009 to 2013 Bloch was based at Georgia Tech, Lorraine. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, error-control coding, wireless communications, and cryptography. Professor Bloch has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences; he was the chair of the Online Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2011 to 2014, and he has been on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information since 2016. He is the co- recipient of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society 2011 Joint Paper Award and the co-author of the textbook Physical- Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.
Matthieu R. Bloch is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the S. 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
Gee-Kung ChangProfessor, Byers Eminent Scholar Chair in Optical Networking; Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Optics and Photonics, Digital Signal Processing, Telecommunications
Professor 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 the 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.
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.
John D. CresslerSchlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Techical Interest Groups: Electronic Design and Applications, Nanotechnology
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.
Professor John D. 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.
Russell D. DupuisProfessor; Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics; Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Techical Interest Groups: Optics and Photonics, NanotechnologyMicro and Nanofabrication Technologies
His alma mater has honored him with the University of Illinois Alumni Loyalty Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award. 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.
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.
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Maysam GhovanlooProfessor; Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Techical Interest Groups: Electronic Design and Applications, Bioengineering
where he led 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 the 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.
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.,
Jennifer HaslerProfessor; Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Techical Interest Groups: Electronic Design and Applications (Group Chair)
Hasler founded the Integrated Computational Electronics (ICE) laboratory at Georgia Tech, a laboratory affiliated with the Laboratories for Neural Engineering.
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.
Omer T. InanAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Bioengineering, Electronic Design and Applications
His research focuses on non-invasive physiological sensing and modulation for human health and performance, and is funded by DARPA, NSF, ONR, NIH, private foundations, and industry. He has published more than 125 technical articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and has six issued patents. Inan, a Senior Member of the IEEE, received the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship (Stanford University) for outstanding scholarship, teaching and service. In 2016, he received a Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 2017 the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award for outstanding research and scholarship. In 2018, he was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and an NSF CAREER Award. He is a three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American in the discus throw.
Omer T. Inan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004, 2005, and 2009, respectively.
J. Stevenson KenneyProfessor; Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Electromagnetics, Electronic Design and Applications
He teaches and conducts research in the areas of power amplifier design and linearization, tunable RF materials and devices, and RFIC design.
Kenney also 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. Kenney has served as an expert witness on a number of patent litigations involving cellular telephone technology and cellular networks. He has been an active member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for over 30 years. Professor Kenney served three terms on the MTT-S AdCom, served as Treasurer from 2001-2003, and was elected as MTT-S President in 2007. Dr. Kenney is now serving as General Co-Chair of IMS-2021, to be held in Atlanta. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer reviewed technical papers and conference papers in the areas of acoustics, analog/RF IC design, microwave system design, signal processing, and telecommunications. Kenney received the 2005 IEEE MTT-S Application Award “for the development of power amplifier linearization techniques and insertion into cellular/wireless systems.” In 2008, Kenney was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to microwave power amplifier design, characterization, and linearization.”
J. Stevenson Kenney completed his B.S.E.E. (Hons.) in 1985 and M.S.E.E. in 1990, both from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, also at Georgia Tech. In January 2000, Professor Kenney joined the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the area of Electronics Design and Applications.
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Benjamin D.B. KleinAssoc. Chair-Academic; Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, Professor; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Nanotechnology, Optics and Photonics (Group Chair)
Boulder, Colorado, carrying out theoretical analysis and computer simulations of next-generation semiconductor photonic devices. Professor Klein first joined Georgia Tech as an ECE faculty member based at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus in 2003, and in 2012, he transferred to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. Effective January 2018, Klein was appointed as the School’s associate chair for Graduate Affairs.
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 Klein served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in
Shyh-Chiang ShenAssociate Professor; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Nanotechnology
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.
Professor 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.
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.
Andrew StarkResearch Engineer; Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Nanotechnology
He has research experience across a broad range of technical domains: fiber-optic networks, digital signal processing, photonic integrated circuits, wireless communication, and electronic warfare. While a graduate student, he developed digital signal processing strategies for coherent fiber-optic networks, constructed a testbed capable of terabit-per-second class signaling, and evaluated nonlinear fiber effects.
At GTRI, he has been responsible for executing the Photonics Strategic Initiative, a multi-year internal research and development program at GTRI designed to apply photonic technologies to the electronic warfare and radar domains. He has also executed several programs in the Project Director role. At Adtran, he represented the company at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and executed a technology development project for 100 Gb/s passive optical networks. The standards-body work required technical and political bargaining among representatives of a global industry and with companies from internet service providers to equipment vendors to component manufacturers.
Andrew Stark completed the PhD in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Stephen Ralph in 2012. From 2012 to 2016 he worked as a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He spent one year at Adtran Inc., a telecommunication equipment vendor that specializes in access networks, and then returned to GTRI.
Emmanouil M. TentzerisProfessor; Ken Byers Professor in Flexible Electronics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Electromagnetics
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.
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.
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Hua Wang Associate Professor; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Nanotechnology
of Technology as an assistant professor in 2012 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2018. He holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship.
Wang received the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2018, IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2017, NSF CAREER Award in 2015, Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2016, DURIP Award in 2014, and numerous best paper awards. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for 2018 and 2019. Professor Wang is interested in innovating mixed-signal, RF, and mm-Wave integrated circuits and hybrid systems for communication, radar, and sensing applications.
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 Inc. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute
Alenka Zajić Associate Professor; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Interest Groups: Nanotechnology
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.
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,
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GEDC Director & Host
Guest Speaker
Dr. Gordon Keeler is a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. While at DARPA, his work focuses on accelerating the development of emerging photonics, electronics, and integration technologies and to enable revolutionary optical microsystems.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Keeler was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, his research focused on the creation of compound semiconductor optoelectronics and heterogeneous integration techniques to prototype solutions for optical sensing, imaging, communications, and high performance computing applications. His technical interests include semiconductor lasers, modulators, and detectors; nanophotonics and plasmonics; semiconductor materials and device physics; nonlinear, RF, and ultrafast photonics; novel photonic materials and their integration with mature platforms; and microscale optoelectronic packaging technologies.
Dr. Keeler has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings, and holds several patents in the field of photonics. He was the chair of the Albuquerque Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, is an IEEE senior member, and a member of the OSA. He received the Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Lakehead University, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Gordon KeelerProgram Manager
Microsystems Technology Office Defense Advanced Research
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Stephen E. Ralph is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received the B.S. 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 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.
Prior to Georgia Tech, he held a postdoctoral position at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a visiting scientist with the Optical Sciences Laboratory at the IBM T. J. Watson research center.
Dr. Ralph currently leads a team of 9 PhD students. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings and holds 14 patents in the fields of optical communication and signal processing. His current research focuses on wideband optical systems including optical interconnects, integrated photonics, microwave photonics, signal processing and machine learning. Dr. Ralph is an elected member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors, servers as a member of the OFC conference committee and is a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).
The faculty members of the GEDC thank Dr. Oliver Brand, Director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), for his continued support of our Center. This support makes our industry partnerships possible. The faculty also thank all those within the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology who provide invaluable assistance in running our programs.
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2018 IAB POSTER WINNERSChristian Bottenfield - Dr. Ralph Research Group: Integrated Microwave PhotonicsTaiyun Chi - Dr. Wang Research Group: A 64 GHz Full-Duplex Transceiver Front-End with An On-Chip Multifeed Self- Interference-Canceling Antenna and A-Passive CancelerAnosh Daruwalla - Dr. Ayazi Research Group: Piezoelectric Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonant Accelerometer with Self-Acting Nonlinearity Cancellation
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.
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.
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 Ph.D. degree from University of Southampton in 2015. As a Ph.D. 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 M.Sc. (Distinction degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Southampton, UK in 2011. Prior to that he obtained his B.E. (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.
