Hegong Wei, weihegong@gmail.com (Oct 11-Apr 14)

Hegong Wei received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees with the excellent honor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Macau, Macao SAR, China, in 2006, 2008, 2011 respectively. He was project leader in State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau. From October 2011 to April 2014, Dr. Wei was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Circuit Communication Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include high speed and high performance data converters and mixed-signal circuits design and published over 20 technical journals and conference papers in this field. He is now with Silicon Laboratories, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. Dr. Wei received Silk-Road Award at ISSCC 2011 and best paper award at CICC2013.

   
  Bibhu Datta Sahoo, bsahoo@ee.ucla.edu (Mar 10-present)

Bibhu Datta Sahoo received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1998, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2000, and the Ph.D.E.E. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2009. From 2000 to 2006, he was with DSP Microelectronics Group at Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, where he designed analog and digital integrated circuits for signal processing applications. From December 2008 to February 2010, he was with Maxlinear Inc., Carlsbad, CA, where he was involved in designing integrated circuits for CMOS TV tuners. Since March 2010 he has been pursuing research at Communication Circuits Laboratory, UCLA. His research interests include data conversion, signal processing, and analog circuit design. He received the 2008 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.

   
  Marco Zanuso, zanuso@ee.ucla.edu (May10-present)

Marco Zanuso was born in 1981 in Verona, Italy. He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 2005 and 2009. During his Ph.D, he focused his activity on the design of digital-assisted frequency synthesizer. In April 2010 he joined the Communication Circuit Laboratory at UCLA. His recent research interests include digital-assisted frequency synthesis and the design of cognitive radios in CMOS technology.

   
 

ChuanKang Liang, ckliang@ee.ucla.edu (Jan10-present)

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 and Ph.D from University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. Her research interests include the system and architecture design of high-speed transceivers, radio-frequency circuit design for wireless communications, and phase-locking and clock recovery for data communications. In 2007, she joined Broadcom Cooperation as an intern and worked on passive and active device modeling and circuit design at 60 GHz. She has won the best Master Thesis Award of Taiwan IC Design Society in 2006 for her M.S. thesis “The Design and Implementation of CMOS All-Digital Fast-Locking DLL-Based Clock Generators.” She also received First Prize of 6th MXIC Golden Silicon Awards in 2006, UCLA graduate fellowship in 2006, and Outstanding Student Designer Award by Analog Devices, Inc in 2007. She has been a student member of IEEE since 2005.

   
  Toshihide Suzuki, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kanagawa , Japan (Jan04-Jan05)

Toshihide Suzuki received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Osaka University , Osaka , Japan , in 1991 and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan , where he has been engaged in research and design of high-speed Digital ICs using compound semiconductor devices such as GaAs HBT or InP HEMT. Currently, He is in Communication Circuit Laboratories (CCLab) from Jan. 2004, and researching high-speed analog CMOS circuit as a visiting scholar. Mr. Suzuki is a member of IEEE, and the Institute of Electronics , Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.