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Faculty in Circuits and Embedded Systems

Asad A. Abidi, Professor

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981

CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.

National Academy of Engineering, 2007
Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 56-122 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9490, Email

Danijela Cabric, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2007

Wireless communications system design; Cognitive radio networks; VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communication algorithms; Performance analysis and experiments on embedded system platforms.

Office: 56-147C Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.8856, Email

M.C. Frank Chang, Professor

Ph.D., National Chiao-Tung University, 1979

CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.

Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 56-147M Engr. IV, Phone: 310.794.1633, Email

Babak Daneshrad, Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1993

Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications.

Office: 6731G Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7792, Email

Deborah Estrin, Professor

Ph.D., MIT, 1985

Wireless sensor networks, environmental monitoring, participatory mobile sensing.

National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
Fellow, IEEE, 2004
Fellow, AAAS, 2001
Fellow, ACM, 2000

Office: 3531H Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.3923, Email

Puneet Gupta, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2007

Manufacturing, device, circuit and CAD techniques to enable design aware manufacturing and manufacturing aware design. Test structure design for generating abstracted process and variation models. Techniques for leakage power modeling and reduction.

Office: 6730C Boelter, Phone: 310.825.1376, Email

Lei He, Associate Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1999

Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, interconnect modeling and design, power-effi cient computer architectures and systems, and numerical and combinatorial optimization.

Office: 6731D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2037, Email

William J. Kaiser, Professor

Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1984

Development of distributed networked, embedded computing for linking the Internet to the physical world: applications include distributed systems for factory automation, biomedical research, health care, space science, security, and defense.

Fellow, American Vacuum Society, 1994

Office: 56-147L Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3236, Email

Dejan Markovic, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2006

Power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits, VLSI architectures for wireless communications, optimization methods and supporting CAD flows.

Office: 56-147E Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8656, Email

Sudhakar Pamarti, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2003

Mixed-signal IC design, signal processing and communication theory, especially the design of highly integrated wireless and wireline communication systems with particular emphasis on lowering cost and power consumption; design, silicon IC implementation, and verifi cation of mixed-signal blocks.

Office: 6731F Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.2657, Email

Behzad Razavi, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992

Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed data communication circuits.

Fellow, IEEE, 2003

Office: 56-147D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.1633, Email

Henry Samueli, Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1980

Digital signal processing, communications systems engineering, and CMOS integrated circuit design for applications in highspeed data transmission systems.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
National Academy of Engineering, 2003
Fellow, IEEE, 2000

Office: 58-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2647, Email

Majid Sarrafzadeh, Professor

Ph.D., UI Urbana-Champaign, 1987

Embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms.

Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 3532C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7158, Email

Mani B. Srivastava, Professor and Vice Chair

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1992

Mobile and multimedia networked computing systems, design and synthesis of DSP systems, and low-power systems.

Office: 6730E Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.2098, Email

Alan N. Willson, Professor

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1967

Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory.

Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 66-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7400, Email

Chih-Kong Ken Yang, Professor and Area Director

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

High-speed data and clock recovery circuits for large digital systems, low-power, high-performance functional blocks and clock distribution for high-speed digital processing, and low-power high-precision capacitive sensing interface for MEMS.

Office: 56-147A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3665, Email