PhD Students (listed in reversed chronological order of joining the group)
Jiawen Chen has been a Research Assitant/Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since December 2023 (supervised by Dr. Kai Xu, Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "Centimetric and mmWave 6G". He received his BSc degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, in 2020, and his MSc degree in Information and Communication Engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2023.
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His research interests are:
1. NmWave 6G and mixed-signal IC design in general,
2. Transceiver system design.
Hua Li has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since November 2023 (supervised by Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "Transceiver". He received his MSc degree from Brown University, USA, in 2006.
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His research interests are:
1. Passive filters,
2. Passive delta-sigma ADCs,
3. Discrete-time receivers,
4. Ultra-low phase-noise PLLs and VCOs,
5. Switched-capacitor voltage references, converters and regulators,
6. RISC-V,
7. In-memory computing.
Patchara Sawakewang has been a Research Assitant/Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since November 2023 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "PLL-Based Single-Loop m-PSK Demodulator for Wireless Radio". He received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Hatyai, Songkhla, Thailand in 2018. He had worked for five years (2018-2023) in Analog Devices as a Test Development Engineer to provide mass production test solution on complicated mixed-signal PMIC.
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His research interests are:
1. Millimetre-wave and mixed-signal IC design in general,
2. Transceiver system design.
Amartya Das has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since September 2023 (supervised by Dr. Avishek Nag and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). He received his BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering and his ME in Radio-Physics and Electronics from Kolkata University, India in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He's been associated in the research of flat lens at the University Of Utah from January 2021 to June 2022.
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His research interests are:
1. Turrets include designing waveguide for photonic as well as quantum computing,
2. Fabrication , including clean room techniques.
Feifan Hong has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since September 2023 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "Mixed-Signal Circuits". He received his BSc degree in Information and Communication Engineering and his MSc degree in Information Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2020 and 2023, respectively.
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His research interests are:
1. Millimetre-wave and mixed-signal IC design in general,
2. Transceiver system design.
Chawin Khongprasongsiri has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since August 2023 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "Differential Gated Ring Oscillator based Phase-Domain Neural Network Accelerator". He received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Kasetsart University(KU) in Bangkok, Thailand in 2023. His BSc project is about designing digital circuit in NFC using flexible integrated circuit process.
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His research interests are:
1. Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit design.,
2. Hardware Neural Network,
3. ADPLL system design.
Chunxiao Liu has been a Research Assitant/Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since June 2023 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). Her project focuses on the low jitter and low fractional spur ADPLL. She received her BE degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Jilin University of China in 2019, and her ME degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Tsinghua University of China in 2022.
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His research interests are:
1. RFIC and Mixed Signal Design in General,
2. RF Frequency Synthesizers for Wireline, Wireless, and Sensor Applications,
3. Analog Deep Neural Network.
Sumit Dash has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since June 2022 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "High-performance mm-Wave Oscillators and ADPLL for mmWave and Sub-THz Applications". He has done B. Tech from KIIT University, BBSR, and M.Tech from IIT Guwahati, India in 2016 and 2020 respectively. He graduated from IIT Guwahati with the Best M.Tech thesis award. Before joining as a Ph.D., he worked for 1.5 years at the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Pune as System Design Engineer and one year in Cognizant Technological Solutions (CTS), Pune as a software engineer. He was part of the C-DAC team that won the DG C-DAC best hardware R™D award, in 2021.
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His research interests are:
1. RFIC Design in Generall,
2. RF Oscillator and RF Frequency Synthesizers for Wireless Applications,
3. Passive RF Filter Design.
Sayan Kumar has been a Ph.D. student at University College Dublin since March 2021 (supervised by Dr. Teerachot Siriburanon and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski). His project title is "Low-Jitter Low-Spur All-Digital Phase-Locked-Loop for mmWave and Sub-THz Applications" in collaboration with MediaTek. He has done B. Tech from the West Bengal University of Technology and M.Tech from IIT Roorkee, India in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Before joining as a Ph.D., he worked one year as a Research Engineer at the National University of Singapore, two years in Juniper Networks, and three years in Analog Devices as an IC Design Engineer. While doing his Ph.D., he also worked part-time with a start-up Equal1 for a year as a Cryogenic Circuit Designer.
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His research interests are:
1. RFIC and Mixed Signal Design in General,
2. RF Frequency Synthesizers for Wireline, Wireless, and Sensor Applications,
3. Analog Deep Neural Network,
4. Low-Power Accelerators Architecture.
Jingchu He has been a Ph.D. candidate researcher at TUDelft since Mar 2019 under the co-supervision with Dr. S.Morteza Alavi. Her project focus on novel PA architecture design for the transmitter in collaboration with Sony Deutschlands. She received the BSc degree in electrical engineering and the MSc degree in instrumentation engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2013 she received an MSc degree in microelectronics from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She served as an RF application engineer (mobile broadband BU) in Ampleon(formerly part of NXP), the Netherlands from 2013 to 2019.
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His research interests are:
1. RF-DAC,
2. Transceiver and RF in general.
Xutong WU has been a part-time industry-based PhD student in UCD since Spring 2021 (co-supervised with Prof. Elena Blokhina), and working full-time for Equal1 Labs. Xutong Wu received his BE degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2018, and his ME degree in Computer & Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2020. His research interests are in modelling and simulation of CMOS qubits, quantum algorithms and quantum computing.
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His research interests are:
1. CMOS qubits,
2. Quantum computing.
Nikolaos Petropoulos has been a PhD student at University College Dublin since January 2020 (co-supervised with Prof. Elena Blokhina), and a research intern at Equal1 Labs since May 2020. His PhD project is entitled “Towards CMOS Quantum Computing”. He received his MSc in High Energy Theoretical Physics from the University of Amsterdam, with focus on String Theory, black holes & quantum cosmology. His thesis was focused on applying the tools of AdS/CFT holography to probe microscopic properties of extremal cosmological dS/black hole spacetimes. He received his BSc in Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; his dissertation was on Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics, studying the R-mode oscillations of Quark Stars (Self-Bound Strange Stars).
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His research interests are:
1. Quantum Information Theory,
2. Quantum Chaos,
3. Quantum Condensed Matter Physics,
4. Quantum Machine Learning.
Conor Power has been a PhD student at UCD since September 2021. His project title is “Quantum Computer Architecture” (co-supervised with Prof. Elena Blokhina). He received his ME degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2018 and BSc degree in Engineering Science from 2016, both from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He worked full time as an analog IC design engineer at Adesto/Dialog Semiconductor from 2019-2021.
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His research interests are:
1. Modelling and simulation of quantum computer architectures,
2. Cryogenic CMOS IC design.
TsungHsien Tsai is a part-time industry-based PhD student at UCD. His project title is “Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)”. He received the M.S.E.E. degree from National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. R.O.C., in 2004. He joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2005 where he was engaged in the research and development of analog CMOS circuits.
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His research interests are:
1. ADPLL,
2. Hybrid PLL.
Dennis M. Andrade Miceli has been a part-time PhD student at UCD since July 2016. His project title is “FD-SOI Devices Modelling for QC applications”. He has worked in different companies in Mexico, Spain, and Ireland collaborating in R&D projects for different applications from aero-spatical ASICs to quantum computing hardware, and more recently on semiconductor devices characterisaion at cryogenic temperatures. He received his Bachelor degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz (Veracruz, México); his MSc degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 from INAOE (Puebla, Mexico); and his Junior Researcher Certificate from Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) on 2010.
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His research interests are:
1. Semiconductor modeling/characterisation,
2. Cryoelectronics,
3. Quantum Computing Hardware,
4. LDOs and BGRs.
Ying WU has been a PhD student at TU Delft since October 2012. He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering (Prof. Andreani's group), Lund University in Sweden in 2011.
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His research interests are:
1. Analog and mixed-signal IC design,
2. Time-to-digital converter (TDC),
3. Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO),
4. Digital/analog PLL, DLL, Frequency synthesis.