News from the group

2020-10-02: Group alumnus Zain Asgar’s startup Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform let by Benchmark Capital with participation from GV. Zain joined Stanford after graduating from our group.

2019-12-03: Shiva Zamali-Zavareh successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis titled, “Jitter Suppression Techniques for Communication Systems”

2019-11-11: Zhiheng Wang successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, “From Stocastic to Unary Computations: Filter Applications”. Co-advised by Prof. Kia Bazargan.

2019-08-26: Naser Mousavi successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, “Ultra Fast Frequency Hopping Transceiver Desgin and Implementation for Secure Wireless Communications”.

2014-06-10: Group alumnus Bodhisatwa Sadhu’s (currently at IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab) research work at the University of Minnesota done in collaboration with IBM is the most downloaded paper in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits in 2013. “A linearized, low-phase-noise VCO-based 25-GHz PLL with automatic biasing”, IEEE JSSC May 2013 (2810 downloads in 2013 and 3173 downloads till date)

2014-06-02: Mustafijur Rahman presents paper titled, “A 2.5nJ/Bit Multiband (MBAN & ISM) Transmitter for IEEE 802.15.6 Based on a Hybrid Polyphase-MUX/ILO Based Modulator” at RFIC 2014 in Tampa, Florida. The paper was nominated for best paper award.

2013-11-01: Rakesh Kumar Palani presents paper titled, “A 1.56mW 500MHz 3rd-Order Filter with Current-Mode Active-RC Biquad and 33dBm IIP3 in 65nm CMOS”, at the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Singapore, November 2013

·         2013-11-01: Rakesh Kumar Palani presents paper titled, “A 1.56mW 500MHz 3rd-Order Filter with Current-Mode Active-RC Biquad and 33dBm IIP3 in 65nm CMOS”, at the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Singapore, November 2013

·         2010-04-05: Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Future Generation Architectures and Circuits for High-Speed I/O Links"

2010-02-04: Group alumnus Dr. Kin-Joe Sham is written up in the Star-Tribune (Largest local paper in Twin-Cities)




2009-07-28: Group alumnus Zain Asgar along with the rest of his team from Stanford under Prof. Mark Horowitz is one of winners of the annual DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest for design titled "Smart Memories Polymorphic Chip Multiprocessor"