Faculty Research Areas

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: 7440C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.794.1633, Email
	Babak Daneshrad, Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 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: 44-123A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.1376, Email
	Lei He, Associate Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 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, UCLA, 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: 6731H 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