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"

• 2010-03-09: Narasimha Lanka defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Fast Hopping Frequency Synthesis Techniques using Injection Locking"

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"

• 2009-05-29: Liuchun Cai defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Advanced Architectures for Next Generation Wireless Integrated Circuits"
• 2009-04-03: Kin-Joe Sham defends his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Crosstalk Mitigation Techniques in High-Speed Serial Links"
• 2009-03-31: Prof. Harjani speaks at the Northern Virginia and Washington DC chapters of the IEEE MTT society on, "Software Defined Radios: The Semi-Analog Way" (slides)
• 2009-03-31: Eric Severson (Analog Group Alumni) has been selected to receive a 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. His application was selected from over 2,000 applications submitted this year. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). NDSEG selections are made by the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Office (HPCMO).
• 2009-02-05: Group Alumnus Prof. Byunghoo Jung at Purdue University wins SRC/SIA 2007-2008 Design Challenge for the design titled "Chip-to-chip Wireless Data Link using U-band Transceiver".
• 2009-01-01 to 2009-06-31: Professor Harjani is on sabbatical at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, Maryland.
• 2008-04-28: Undergraduate researchers, Eric Severson and Dominic Hogan win Sigma Xi, First and Third Prize for excellence in scientific effort and their ability to communicate their work to a wide audience. Eric Severson's research focuses on significant reduction on size and weight of laptop battery chargers and Dominic's research focuses on developing high efficiency voltage converters to extend the power of batteryless systems.
• 2008-03-14: Analog Design Group Members Martin Sturm, Jackson Harvey, Dominic Hogan Win 2nd prize (phase 1) in SRC Design Challenge
  2^nd place winner in the phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge. Their research integrates batteryless operation with lowpower blood/food monitoring RFID design, “Ultra-Low Power UWB Food Safety-Monitoring System”. The group is one of 47 design teams from 28 universities that entered this contest sponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
• 2007-winter: Kin-Joe Sham (Analog Design Group member) works with Mechanical Engineering Professor Will Durfee on developing new ideas for business startup.
• 2007-09-21: Harjani & Ahmadi win Techcon Best Paper Award
  ECE graduate student Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi won the Best in Session award at the 2007 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) TECHCON conference in the area of Digital and High Speed Circuit Design for his paper, "A Generalized Partial Response Receiver for High Speed Serial Links." Ahmadi's co-authors on this paper were ECE professors Jaekyun Moon and Ramesh Harjani.
• 2007-09-24: Prof. Harjani speaks at Ultra-wideband panel
  Prof. Harjani speaks on panel on "Technical Challenges on Next & Future Generation UWB Systems" at ICUWB 2007. Other panelists include Prof. Robert A. Scholtz, Dr. Robert Fontana, Dr. Shuzo Kato, Dr. Friedbert Berens, Dr. Michael Yan-Wah Chia and Dr. Walter Hirt.
• 2007-05-21: Prof. Harjani presents at TechTuneup 2007
  Prof. Harjani speaks on "Short-Range Wireless Communications for Biomedical Applications" at 2007 TechTuneup: Bio-Inspired Electronics
• 2006-06-26: Prof. Harjani presents at TechTuneup 2006
  Prof. Harjani presents "Designing deep submicron (<100nm) analog circuits" at 2006 TechTuneup: Nano VLSI
• 2005-12-25: Tech Talk to feature Professor Harjani
  The University of Minnesota's Tech Talk television program will feature Professor Ramesh Harjani talking about wireless communication. You can watch the program in the Twin Cities on TPT Minnesota Channel 17 on Sunday, 2005 December 25 at 9:00 p.m.
• 2005: Professor Harjani elected Fellow of IEEE
  Professor Ramesh Harjani has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to the design and computer-aided design (CAD) of analog and radio frequency circuits."
• Design of low-phase-noise CMOS ring oscillators, 49 (5): 328-338 Liang Dai and Ramesh Harjani, (PDF), among most downloaded papers from IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, 2002
• A Low-Power CMOS VGA For 50 MB/S Disk-Drive Read Channels 42 (6): 370-3,  R. Harjani (PDF) among most cited papers in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 1995