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SMIrC Alumni
Joel Dawson
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | (617) 324-5281 |
| jldawson@mtl.mit.edu | (617) 253-8806 (Fax) |
| Website: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~jldawson | |
| Dissertation: "Feedback Linearization of RF Power Amplifiers" | |
Joel Dawson received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1996 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2003.
After finishing his dissertation he spent a year at Aspendos Communications, which he co-founded in 2003. In September of 2004 he joined the faculty of MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests are in analog system theory and its applications, and in nonlinear control.
Ramin Farjad-Rad
| Aquantia Corp. | (650) 567-9337 |
| rfarjad@aquantia.com | |
| Dissertation: "A CMOS 4-PAM Multi-Gbps Serial Link Transceiver" | |
Ramin Farjad-Rad was born in Tehran, Iran. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 2000. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled, "A Multi-Gbps 4-PAM serial link in CMOS", and describes a new
approach to increase the data transmission rate up to 10Gbps over copper cables while suitable for implementation in standard CMOS technologies such as 0.25um. He worked at SUN
Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain view, CA, on a 1.25Gb/s serial transceiver for the Fibre channel standard in 1995. In 1996, he worked at LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA, where he
examined different Multi Gb/s serial transceiver architectures.
Ramin co-founded Velio Communications in 1999, where he focused on the development of Terabit switch chips as the company chief engineer. After Velio acquisition in 2003, he served as the senior principal architect at RamBus Inc. till 2005. He founded Aquantia Corp. in 2005, where he is currently developing the 10GBASE-T physical layer for Ethernet. Mr. Farjad holds over 30 US patents and inventions, and several technical publications in the field of high-speed communications. He is also the Gold medal winner of Iran's National physics competition and the Bronze medal winner of the 20th International Physics Olympiad, Warsaw, Poland.
Ali Hajimiri
| California Institute of Technology | (626) 395-2312 |
| hajamiri@caltech.edu | (626) 585-8798 (Fax) |
| Website: http://www.ee2.caltech.edu/People/Faculty/hajimiri.html | |
| Dissertation: "Jitter and Phase Noise in Electrical Oscillators" | |
Ali Hajimiri received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from
the Sharif University of Technology, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in
1996 and 1998, respectively.
He was a Design Engineer with Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, he was with Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the UltraSPARC microprocessor's cache RAM design methodology. During the summer of 1997, he was with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ, where he investigated low-phase-noise integrated oscillators. In 1998, he joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, as an Associate Pro fessor of electrical engineering and the director of Microelectronics and Noise Laboratories. His research interests are high-speed and RF integrated circuits.
Ali is a coauthor of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1999) and holds several U.S. and European patents. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He has also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Compute r Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and the Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
Dr. Hajimiri was the Gold medal winner of National Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 1998 Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award and the winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is also a cofounder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.
Arjang Hassibi
| California Institute of Technology | (626) 295-1794 |
| http://www.its.caltech.edu/~arjang/ | |
| Dissertation: "Integrated Microarrays" | |
Arjang Hassibi received his B.S. degree ('97) from the University of
Tehran, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree ('01 and '05) from Stanford
University, all in electrical engineering. He is also the co-founder
of Xagros Technologies Inc. in Mountain View, CA which is a molecular
diagnostics company. He has also held research positions at Barcelona
Design in Mountain View, CA in 2000 and Panorama Research Institute in
Sunnyvale, CA between 2003 and 2005.
Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Scholar at California Institute of Technology. His main areas of research are biosensor and bioelectronics, integrated biomedical systems, and biosensor modeling.
Maria del Mar Hershenson
| Barcelona Design, Inc. | (650) 917-0400 |
| marita@stanford.edu | (650) 917-0421 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "CMOS Analog Circuit Design via Geometric Programming" | |
Mar was born in Barcelona, Spain. She received the B.S.E.E. degree from
the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain in 1995 and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Her rese
arch interests are convex optimization techniques applied to analog
integrated circuits.
Bendik Kleveland
| Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. | (408) 969-4841 |
| bendik@matrixsemi.com | (408) 969-4849 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "CMOS Interconnects Beyond 10GHz" | |
Bendik Kleveland was born in Norway on January 7, 1966. He received the B.S. degree at the University of Surrey in 1990 and the M.S. degree, at Stanford University in 1991, both in electrical engineering. From 1991 to 1996 he worked at Intel Corporation in the Pentium and Merced Design teams. His responsibilities included high speed clock, bus and I/O design. He is now working towards his Ph.D. at Stanford with Professor Simon Wong and is interested in the use of standard CMOS technology for digital and analog applications beyond 10 GHz. Bendik received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2000.
Sunderarajan Sunderesan Mohan
| Barcelona Design, Inc. | (650) 473-1738 |
| mohan@barcelonadesign.com | (650) 917-0421 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "The Design, Modeling, and Optimization of On-Chip Inductor and Transformer Circuits" | |
Mohan
received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University in 1992, 1993 and 1999 respectively. His Ph.D.
work focused on the design of radio frequency integrated circuits
(RFICs) in CMOS with a particular emphasis on the design and
optimization of on-chip spiral inductors and transformer circuits.
During the Summers of 1992 and 1993, he interned at Acuson Inc.,
Mountain View, CA, where he designed test systems and modeled the beam
forming characteristics of ultrasound transducers for medical applications. Since the Summer of 1999, he
has worked at Barcelona Design Inc, Mountain View, CA, where he designs
RF and analog cells.
Mohan has served as a teaching assistant in many undergraduate and graduate lecture and laboratory classes and has received the Centennial Award for Teaching. He was supported by an IBM FMA fellowship from 1996-1998. In his spare time, Mohan enjoys Ballroom dancing, swimming, cooking and hiking.
Ömer Oralkan
| CIS Bldg. Room 23, Ginzton-108 | (650) 723-1040 |
| ooralkan@stanford.edu | (603) 725-7509 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "Acoustical imaging using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays : devices, circuits, and systems" | |
Ömer Oralkan received the B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1995, the M.S. degree from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2004, all in electrical engineering. Currently, he is an Engineering Research Associate at the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University.
His past and present research interests include analog and digital circuit design, micromachined sensors and actuators, and semiconductor device physics and fabrication. His current research focuses on the design and implementation of integrated ultrasonic imaging systems.
He received the 2002 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Dr. Oralkan is a member of the IEEE.
Tamara A. Papalias
| San Jose State University | |
| drpapalias@yahoo.com | (408) 924-3989 |
| Website: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~tpapalias | |
| Dissertation: "Standard CMOS Nonvolatile Reprogrammable Switch for Low Phase Noise in LC Oscillators" | |
Tamara A. Papalias was born in St. Louis, MO in 1971. She received her BS and her MS in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1995. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 in the field of RF circuit design.
Tamara is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University.
Hamid Rategh
| Tavanza, Inc. | |
| hamid@smirc.stanford.edu | (408) 327-0215 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "Low-Power CMOS Frequency Division and Synthesis at Multi-GHz Frequencies" | |
Hamid R. Rategh was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1972. He received his BS
degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology,
Iran on August 1994. He received his MS degree in biomedical
engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1
996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford
University in 2001. During the summer of 1997 he worked for Rockwell
semiconductor system in Newport Beach, CA, where he was involved in the
design of a CMOS dual-band, GSM/DCS1800, direct conversion receiver.
His current research interests are in low power radio frequency (RF)
integrated circuits design for high data rate wireless systems.
Hamid Rategh is the recipient of the 1997 Stanford graduate fellowship (SGF). He was also a member of the Iranian team in the 21st International Physics Olympiad.
Hirad Samavati
| Atheros Communications, Inc. | (408) 773-5200 |
|
(408) 773-9940 (Fax) |
| Website: http://smirc.stanford.edu/~hirad | |
| Dissertation: "A Fully Integrated 5-GHz CMOS Wireless LAN Receiver" | |
Hirad
Samavati received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif
University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1994 and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1996 and
2001 respectively.
During the summer of 1996, he was with Maxim Integrated Products, where he designed building blocks for a low-power infrared transceiver IC. His current research interests include RF circuits and analog and mixed-signal VLSI, particularly integrated trans ceivers for wireless communications. As part of his research, he built and tested a CMOS front-end for a 5GHz wireless-LAN receiver.
Mr. Samavati received a departmental fellowship from Stanford University in 1995 and a fellowship from IBM Corp. in 1998. He is the winner of the ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper award for the paper "Fractal Capacitors" in 1998.
Derek Keith Shaeffer
| Aspendos Communications | (408) 236-7582 |
| derekshaeffer@yahoo.com | Resume |
| Dissertation: "The Design and Implementation of Low-Power CMOS Radio Receivers" | |
Derek K. Shaeffer received his B.S. degree from the University of Southern
California in 1993, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford
University in 1995 and 1999 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
From 1992 to 1997, he worked for Tektronix, Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon
where he cut his teeth designing A/D converter and communications circuits
in CMOS and bipolar technologies. His current research interests are in
CMOS and bipolar implementations of low noise, high linearity wireless
communications receivers.
In his spare time, Derek enjoys playing piano and writing music for the piano and guitar.
Arvin Ramesh Shahani
| Aspendos Communications | (650) 766-9943 |
| arvin_shahani@yahoo.com | (408) 236-7576 (Fax) |
| Dissertation: "Radio Frequency Conversion and Synthesis for a 115 Milliwatt GPS Receiver" | |
Arvin
Shahani received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford
University in 1993, 1995, and 1999 respectively. As an undergraduate he
studied computer systems engineering. In graduate school, his masters
work emphasized communications systems and his doctoral work was in the
field of radio frequency circuit design. His Ph.D. dissertation is
titled, "Frequency conversion and synthesis (for a 115mW GPS
receiver)", and describes new mixer and PLL architectures suitable for
implementation in standard CMOS technologies. The designs were used in
a highly integrated, low power GPS front-end.
During the summers of 1992 and 1993, he worked at Quantum Corp. developing firmware in the High Capacity Storage Group. During the summer of 1995, he worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center designing high frequency oscillators in IBM's SiGe process.
Shwetabh Verma
| Aeluros, Inc. | |
| sverma@smirc.stanford.edu | |
| Dissertation: "A low-cost, low-power wireless receiver" | |
Shwe received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Toronto, Canada, in 1998 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2000 and 2005,
respectively.
He is currently Member of Technical Staff at Aeluros, Inc.
David M. Colleran
| dave@smirc.stanford.edu | |
| Dissertation: "Optimization of phase-locked loop circuits via geometric programming" | |
Dave Colleran received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. As a Ph.D. student in 1998-1999, his research focused on the design of CMOS RF building blocks. His work also included the optimization, layout, and fabrication of an array of operational amplifiers using geometric programming.
Before the 1999-2000 academic year, Dave took a leave of absence from the Ph.D. program to become a co-founder of Barcelona Design. At Barcelona, he designed and developed the original optimization code for phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits using geometric programming. He directed the seven person PLL team whose responsibilities included circuit design and optimization, silicon verification, and technical sales support. During his tenure, the PLL team optimized and taped-out over 30 successful PLLs in 0.25mm to 90nm CMOS processes, with clock frequencies ranging up to 2GHz.
Dave won the James W. Lyons Award for Service in 1997-1998 for his effort in rewriting the labs and restructuring the EE133 RF Analog Communications class. He is also the recipient of the 1998-99 mentorship grant from Rockwell Semiconductor Systems.
Mona Jarrahi
| Research Specialist at Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center | |
| mjarrahi@smirc.stanford.edu | http://mjarrahi.net |
| Dissertation: "Optical spatial quantization for higher performance analog to digital conversion" | |
Mona Jarrahi received her B.S in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2000) and M.S and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (2003, 2007). At Stanford University, she was investigating optically assisted electronics for millimeter-wave/terahertz applications. She is currently a Research Specialist at Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) working on MEMS-based tunable terahertz electronics. Her graduate studies had been supported by numerous collaborators from industry; among them include Robert Bosch, Texas Instruments, and Agilent Technologies. She is the recipient of Robert Bosch FMA fellowship. She has received the "Best Student Paper" award at the International Microwave Symposium (2007). Her professional society memberships include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).
Michael Mulligan
| mulligan@smirc.stanford.edu | |
| Dissertation: "High-efficiency gate drivers for low-voltage CMOS dc-dc converters" | |
Michael Mulligan was born in Tampa, Florida, in January 1978. He received the
B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas
at Austin in 2000, and the M.S. degree in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in 2007 from Stanford University
From 2000 to 2001 he was with IBM in Austin where he performed physical IC design for the PowerPC microprocessor line. During the summers of 2002 through 2004 he was with National Semiconductor's Portable Power Division in Santa Clara, CA, where he developed high-efficiency gate drivers to improve the light-load efficiency of high-frequency switchmode dc-dc converters for portable applications.
Junfeng Xu
| Dissertation: "Code and circuit for a low-power, lower-cost wireless system" |