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
	Szu-Yao Hung Email: syhung(at)ucla(dot)edu Szu-Yao Hung received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He has held an internship position at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, where he was involved in RFIC design for mobile applications. He was the recipient of the UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship and Broadcom Foundation Fellowship. His current research interests include mixed-signal IC design with a special focus on developing algorithmic techniques to overcome circuit impairments.
	Jiyue Yang Email: jyang669(at)ucla(dot)edu Jiyue Yang received B.S. from Cornell University and M.S. degree from UCLA in 2016 and 2018. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at UCLA. His research interests are mixed signal integrated circuit designs for the applications of emerging memories and energy efficient deep learning accelarators. He is the winner of the student design contest in Asian Solid State Circuit Conference(ASSCC), 2022 and the winner of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF), 2021.
	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	Post Doc, 2022-2023. Current Position:
Sunbo Shim	Post Doc, 2012-2014. Current Position: Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego, USA
Ph.D. Alumni
	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: R&D Hardware Engineer, Broadcom, Irvine, CA.
	Neha Sinha PhD, 2017. Thesis: "Design and Analysis of Spectrum Scanners Based on Passive, Periodically Time-Varying Circuits". Current Position: Staff Design Engineer at Skyworks, Boston, MA.
	Farid Shirinfar PhD, 2016. Thesis: "Design Techniques for High Frequency PAs and VCOs". Current Position: RF/mm-Wave IC Designer, Movandi Corperation, Irvine, CA, USA.
	Nitin Nidhi PhD, 2015. Thesis: "Digital Calibration of Wide Bandwidth Open-Loop Phase Modulator". Current Position: R&D Hardware Engineer, Broadcom, Irvine, CA.
	Abhishek Ghosh PhD, 2013. Thesis: "Signal Processing Techniques Enabling Wideband A/D Converters". Current Position: Analog Design Manager at Texas Instruments, Bengaluru, India
	Nitesh Singhal PhD, 2013. Thesis: "A Zero Voltage Switching Contour based Power Amplifier with Minimal Efficiency Degradation under Power Back-Off". Current Position: RF/mmWave Design Engineer at Apple, Santa Clara, CA.
	Pin-En Su PhD, 2010. Current Position: R&D Hardware Engineer at Broadcom, Irvine, CA.
	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

People

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