SPACE - People

Principal Investigator
	Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti Professor 6731F, Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA,90024. Email: spamarti(at)ee(dot)ucla(dot)edu Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1995, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and 2003 respectively. He has either worked for, consulted with, or advised both software and hardware companies such as Hughes Software Systems, Rambus Inc., SiTime, Texas Instruments, Alterra, FemtoDX etc. on various aspects of wireless and wireline communications, and analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuit (IC) design. His research focuses on developing various techniques, especially signal processing ones, to overcome common impairments in ICs. This includes both establishing the theoretical basis of such techniques as well as demonstrating their efficacy using record setting prototype ICs. Dr. Pamarti is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He currently serves on the technical program committees of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, as a Solid State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer, and has, in the past, served as an Associate Editor for both Parts I and II of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

Principal Investigator

Prof. Pamarti

Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti
Professor
6731F, Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA,90024.
Email: spamarti(at)ee(dot)ucla(dot)edu

Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1995, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and 2003 respectively. He has either worked for, consulted with, or advised both software and hardware companies such as Hughes Software Systems, Rambus Inc., SiTime, Texas Instruments, Alterra, FemtoDX etc. on various aspects of wireless and wireline communications, and analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuit (IC) design. His research focuses on developing various techniques, especially signal processing ones, to overcome common impairments in ICs. This includes both establishing the theoretical basis of such techniques as well as demonstrating their efficacy using record setting prototype ICs. Dr. Pamarti is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He currently serves on the technical program committees of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, as a Solid State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer, and has, in the past, served as an Associate Editor for both Parts I and II of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

Ph.D. Students
	Haris Suhail Email: harissuhail(at)ucla(dot)edu Haris Suhail received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2017. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at UCLA. He is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Graduate Dean's Scholar Award and the UCLA graduate fellowship 2019. From 2017 - 2019, he worked as an embedded systems R&D engineer at SkyElectric Pvt Ltd. His current research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuit design for stochastic computing.
	Vinod Kurian Jacob Email: jvinod(at)ucla(dot)edu Vinod Kurian Jacob received his B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut in 2016 and his M.Tech degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2018. From 2018-2020, he has worked with Samsung Semiconductor R&D Center, Bangalore on high-performance PMIC design for mobile and display applications. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. His research interests span integrated circuit design, signal processing and circuit-algorithm co-design. He is a recipient of the 2020 UCLA ECE department fellowship.
	Stephen Bauer Email: bauersteffen705(at)gmail(dot)com Stephen Bauer graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2019. After receiving his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at UCLA in 2021 he joined Prof. Sudhakar Pamarti’s research group and is currently working towards his Ph.D in electrical engineering. From July 2021 to January 2022, he interned at Sandia National Laboratories, as a signal processing engineer. His current research interests include digital signal processing, quantization in Neural networks, and medical devices research.
	Mohammadreza Zeinali Email:zeinali(at)ucla(dot)edu Mohammadreza Zeinali received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 2018 and M.Sc. degree in Electronic Integrated Circuits from University of Tehran in 2021. From 2018-2022, He worked as an Analog IC designer in Advanced Communication lab in University of Tehran with focus on designing Delta-Sigma Modulators and High-Voltage PMICs for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) application. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. His research interests include Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits.

Post Doc Alumni
Soumitra Pal	Postdoc, 2022-23. Staff Engineer in R&D Engineering, Synopsys Inc, sunnyvale, USA
Sunbo Shim	Postdoc, 2012-13. Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego, USA
Ph.D. Alumni
Jiyue Yang	PhD, 2021. Thesis: "Stochastic Compute-In-Memory Hardware Accelerator for Intelligent Edge Devices". Current Position: R&D Hardware Engineer, Broadcom, Irvine, CA.
Shi Bu	PhD, 2021. Thesis: "Programmable, High-Dynamic-Range Receiver Front-Ends Using Periodically Time-Varying Circuits". Current Position: R&D Hardware Engineer, Broadcom, Irvine, CA.
Hani Esmaeelzadeh	PhD, 2019. Thesis: "Low-Energy Clock Generation for Internet-of-Things Applications". Current Position: RF/mm-Wave IC Designer, Movandi Corperation, Irvine, CA, USA
Sameed Hameed	PhD, 2017. Thesis: "Design and Analysis of Programmable Receiver Front-Ends Based on LPTV Circuits". Current Position: RFIC Engineer, Silvus Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jeffrey Lee	PhD, 2017. Thesis: Broadband Class-AB Power Amplifier Techniques For Cable TV Applications Current Position: Staff Engineer, MaxLinear, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Neha Sinha	PhD, 2017. Thesis: "Design and Analysis of Spectrum Scanners Based on Passive, Periodically Time-Varying Circuits". Current Position: Design Engineer at Silicon Labs, Nashua, NH, USA
Farid Shirinfar	PhD, 2016. Thesis: "Design Techniques for High Frequency PAs and VCOs". Current Position: IC Design Engineer at Broadcom, Irvine, USA
Nitin Nidhi	PhD, 2015. Thesis: "Digital Calibration of Wide Bandwidth Open-Loop Phase Modulator". Current Position: Principal Engineer at IQ-Analog, San Diego, USA
Abhishek Ghosh	PhD, 2013. Thesis: "Signal Processing Techniques Enabling Wideband A/D Converters". Current Position: Engineer at MaxLinear, Bangalore, India
Nitesh Singhal	Current Position: Staff Engineer at Silicon Image, Santa Clara, USA
Pin-En Su	Design Scientist - Principle at Broadcom, Irvine, USA
Tzu-Chien Hsueh	PhD, 2010. Thesis: "Crosstalk suppression technique for multi-wire high-speed I/O links". Current Position: Assistant Professor, Integrated Communication Circuits Lab ,ECE Department, UCSD
M.S. (Thesis) Alumni
Jarrah Bergeron	MS, 2021. Thesis: "Toneless Bandpass Dynamic Element Matching". Current Position: Analog Devices
Haris Suhail	MS, 2021. Thesis: "Design of a Quick Startup Crystal Oscillator Circuit With Automatic Injection Frequency Calibration". Current Position: PhD student in our group
John Ong	MS, 2012. Thesis: "Analysis and Simulation of Impairments in Xampling Based Receivers".

People

Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti's Research Group