Mohamed Aboudina, aboudina@ee.ucla.edu
 

Mohamed M. Aboudina received his B.Sc. with honors from the Electronics and Communications Department, Cairo University, Egypt in 2000. In 2002, he received his Masters degree from the same university, where his primary research was on Very Low Voltage, High-Speed switched capacitor circuits. He then joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a PhD student where the primary focus of his research is high-speed data converters. In summer 1999, he joined a summer intership at IMEC (Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center), Belgium. From August 2000 till August 2002, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Electronics and Communications Department, Cairo University, Egypt and worked as a part time design engineer in Mentor Graphics Egypt. Since September 2002, he joined UCLA, where he is currently a research assistant at the electrical engineering department. His research interests are high-speed data converters (Nyquist rate and oversampled), and high-speed switched capacitor circuit design.

     
    Sameh Ibrahim, sameh@ee.ucla.edu
  Sameh A. Ibrahim received his B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His primary research in his Master's was the design of low power / low sensitivity to process variations integrated CMOS RF receivers. In September 2005, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a PhD student where the primary focus of his research is very high speed serial links. From 2001 to 2005, He worked as a teaching assistant in the ECE dept. in Ain Shams University. He had also the chance to work as a part-timer VLSI designer in AIAT inc. where he participated in different design projects; DC/DC converters, FM receivers, delta sigma ADCs, GSM speech synthesizer, ...etc. He is a member of IEEE since 1999. His research interests include very high speed data links, RFICs design for wireless communications and wireless architectures and system design.
 

 

 
 

 

ChuanKang Liang, ckliang@ee.ucla.edu
 

ChuanKang Liang received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Her Master thesis focused on the design and implementation of CMOS all-digital fast-locking DLL-based clock generators and won the best Master thesis award of Taiwan IC Design Society in 2006. In Fall 2006, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles for her PhD program. Her research interests include the architecture and system design of high speed transceivers and RFICs for wireless communications. She has been a student member of IEEE since 2005.
     
   

Bibhu Datta Sahoo, bsahoo@ee.ucla.edu
 

Bibhu Datta Sahoo received his B.Tech and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and University of Minnesota in 1998 and 2000 respectively. From 2000 to 2006 he was at Broadcom Corporation, Irvine where he was involved in custom high speed digital circuit design, CMOS imagers, and various high voltage circuits using standard low voltage CMOS transistors. Since, 2004 he has joined the PhD program at UCLA where he is involved in high speed data converter design. 
    Ashutosh Verma, ashutosh@ee.ucla.edu
 

Ashutosh Verma received his B.Tech and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999 and 2004 respectively. From 1999 to 2000 he was at Biomorphic VLSI Inc., where he was involved in the design of CMOS based image sensors and image processing modules. Since fall 2004, he has joined the PhD program at UCLA where he is involved in the design of data converter for high frequency applications.

      
   

Brian Lee, brianlee@ee.ucla.edu
 

Brian Lee received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities in 2005, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. He was at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2006 as a research staff in the Analog IC Systems Lab. He also held internship positions at Silicon Laboratories in 2007 and at Broadcom Corporation, San Diego during the summer of 2008. Since fall of 2008, he had joined the electrical engineering Ph.D. program at UCLA. Working as a research assistant, he is involved in the development of Cognitive Radio. He has been a student member of IEEE since 2005.

     
   

Sedigheh Hashemi, sedigheh@ee.ucla.edu
 

Sedigheh Hashemi received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In her Master thesis, she focused on the design of low voltage/low power pipelined analog-to-digital converters in 90nm CMOS technology. In winter 2008, she joined an internship program at LSM of EPFL, Switzerland, where she was involved in the design and implementation of analog circuits for neural electronic applications. In fall 2008, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Ph.D. student where her research is focused on the design of high speed data converters.