Aya G. Amer is currently a graduate research assistant and a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and computer science department (EECS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical communication engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. She worked as a graduate research assistant at the Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICL), and as a teaching assistant at Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt from 2014 to 2017. During this time, her research was related to low-noise clock generation design of a low-power 12 Gbps multi-standard SerDes PHY.

She joined MIT EECS department as a graduate student in Fall 2017. In 2019, She received her M.Sc. degree in EECS from MIT. She received the Analog Devices outstanding student designer award in 2019 for the first demonstration of CNFET-based analog mixed-signal circuits. Her research focuses on designing energy-efficient analog-mixed signal circuits and systems with emerging technologies, such as CNFETs and RRAMs, for next generation applications. She also works on integrated circuits design leveraging new technologies as well as new architectures to enable new application scenarios for AI and machine learning. 

Ali Binaie (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree (Hons.) from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Before joining Columbia University, he was a researcher in the AIC lab at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy working on high-speed electro-optical transceivers. He held an internship position with Texas Instruments in 2020. He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award (Second Place) at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Jean Bennett memorial student grant award at the OSA Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science (FiO+LS) conference and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2020.

Kuan-Chang Chen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, where he is a member of the Mixed-mode Integrated Circuits and Systems (MICS) Lab supervised by Prof. Azita Emami. His research interests include analog, RF, mixed-signal, and VLSI circuits and systems, with special emphases on high-speed electrical and optical communication links.

Mr. Chen was a recipient of the 2015 Henry Ford II Scholar Award at Caltech, and a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Debayan Das received the Bachelor of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering with Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, working with Prof. Shreyas Sen. Prior to joining Ph.D., he worked as an Analog Design Engineer at a startup based in India. He has interned with the Security Research Lab, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, USA, over the summers of 2018 and 2020. His research interests include mixed-signal IC design and hardware security.

Mr. Das was a recipient of the IEEE HOST Best Student Paper Award in 2017 and 2019, the Third Best Poster Award in the IEEE HOST 2018, and the 2^nd Best Demo Award in HOST 2020. In 2019, one of his papers was recognized as a Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security published over the span of the last six years. He was recognized as the winner (third place) of the ACM ICCAD 2020 Student Research Competition (SRC). During his Ph.D., he has been awarded the ECE Fellowship during 2016–2018, the SSCS Pre-doctoral Achievement Award in 2020-21, and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship during the final year (2020–2021) for his outstanding overall achievements.

Milad Frounchi (S’11) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where he is a member of the Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Lab supervised by Prof. John D. Cressler. His current research interests include designing integrated RF and mm-wave transceivers, as well as high-speed optical receivers based on phototransistors.

Mr. Frounchi was among the Best Student Paper finalists at the IEEE RFIC Symposium 2020, and he was the recipient of the 2018 IEEE NSREC Outstanding Conference Paper Award, the 2020 MTT-Sat Challenge Award, and the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Robin Garg received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he joined as an RF Design Engineer at Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, where he worked on Wireless Connectivity Solutions. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, the USA, in 2016. In 2016, he joined Cypress Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd., Lynwood, USA. Since 2017, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Oregon State University. He has been serving as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE-TMTT) and IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (IEEE-MWCL) since 2017. He is an active member of the IEEE Solid-Circuits Society (IEEE-SSCS) for the past five years and serves as the Chair of the SSCS Oregon State University student chapter. His research interests include integrated circuits and systems design for wireless R.F./mm-wave transceivers. He received the ‘Outstanding student designer’ award from Analog Devices Inc. for excellence in IC design in 2020. He was a recipient of the best student paper award (2nd place) at IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2020. 

Mohamed I. Ibrahim received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, where he also received an M.S. degree in 2020. From 2012 to 2016, he was a teaching/research assistant at the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Ain Shams University. He developed metamaterial inspired antennas for novel applications, including automotive radar, LTE, and WBAN. Since he started his Ph.D. at MIT in 2016, Mr. Ibrahim has been developing integrated systems for quantum computing and sensing applications using hybrid CMOS and semiconductor color centers platforms. He is also working on low-power millimeter-wave wireless monitoring systems and ultra-miniaturized sensor nodes. Mr. Ibrahim serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. His research interests include microelectronics circuits and systems for applications ranging from millimeter-wave wireless devices to chip-scale quantum systems as well as novel electromagnetic structures and devices.

MoonHyung Jang received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2014, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering.

His current research interests include continuous-time delta-sigma modulator, hybrid analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), high-precision analog circuits, and low-noise sensor interfaces. This resulted in several publications in Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposium on VLSI Circuits (SOVC), and European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC).

Mr. Jang received the Silver Prize (2020) and Bronze Prize (2018) in the Samsung Human-Tech Paper Award in Circuit Design hosted by Samsung Electronics, the Best Paper Award from the Yonsei-Samsung Semiconductor Research Center (2020), and the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (2020-2021).

Mohammad Khorshidian is currently a PhD student in the electrical engineering department at Columbia University in the city of New York. He has completed his Master of Science at Columbia University in 2018 and his Bachelor of Science at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, in 2016, both in electrical engineering. His research interests span integrated circuits and systems for various applications in radio-frequency (RF) and millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) regimes including high-power high-efficiency power amplifiers and non-reciprocal devices such as circulators and isolators using novel linear time-variant circuit techniques. He has received the best paper award (2nd place) at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2020. He is a recipient of the Master of Excellence award from Columbia University electrical engineering department in 2019 and the IEEE ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2020.

Jiamin Li (S’18) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2017. She is currently working toward the Ph.D degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS. Her current research interests include body-coupled powering platform, power management and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for wearable applications. She was a recipient or a co-recipient of the Student Travel Grant Award at ISSCC 2020, the ISSCC 2020 Demonstration Session Certificate of Recognition, and the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award. 

Xun Sun received the B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA and from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2016. Currently, she is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington, where she is a member of the Processing Systems (PSy) Lab. Her research interests include integrated power converters, low-power mixed signal circuits and the application of control ideas to power-management problems.

She held multiple internship positions at Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, USA, in 2017, 2019 and 2020, where she worked with various teams at the Circuit Research Lab. She was a recipient of the National Scholarship of China in 2013 and 2014, the Irene Peden Fellowship (UW) in 2016, the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2017, 2019 and the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Sachin Taneja received the bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India, in 2013. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore. He was with Synopsys Inc., India, as R&D Engineer from 2013 to 2016 where he was involved in designing high-speed circuits and architectures for on-chip embedded memories. His current research interests include hardware security circuit primitives and in-memory compute accelerators.

He was a recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2020-2021 and Student Travel Grant Award for ISSCC in 2019. He serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and various conferences (ISCAS, APCCAS).

Wei Shi received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2017. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. His research interests include high-speed and high-resolution CT-DSMs, machine learning based design automation under advanced technology nodes, and open-sourced hardware. Mr. Shi received a number of prizes for outstanding academic performance including the Chinese National Scholarship and UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholar Fellowship from 2013-2017. He is a recipient of Texas Instruments Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2017, IEEE ISSCC Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2019, and the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award

Yiyang Shu received the B.E. degree in microelectronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2016, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics.

His research interests include the integrated wide-band microwave/millimeter-wave/ terahertz oscillator and frequency synthesizer.

Mr. Shu was a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, the 2020 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award, the IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS) Best Student Paper Award (second place) in 2018, the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Design Competition Award in 2018, and the IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT) Student Design Competition Award in 2016. He serves as a reviewer of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, IEEE Microwaves and Wireless Component Letter, and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.

Aoyang Zhang (S’14) received B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

His current research interests include twofold. First, analog/mixed signal/RF integrated circuits design including highly efficient power amplifiers for RF/millimeter wave applications, new circuit architectures for wireless communications and high-speed low-power data converters. Second, new circuit architecture with two-dimensional (2D) memristive devices, including black phosphorus and MoS2, to overcome technological limitations in computational complexity and power consumption.

Mr. Zhang was the recipient of 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral achievement award, Ming Hsieh Institute Scholar in 2020, IEEE SSCS Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) in 2018, Best Bachelor Thesis Award in 2014, and the first prize of Chinese National Mathematical Competition in 2010. From 2015 to present, he serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I/II (TCAS) and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).

Luya Zhang (S’15) received the B.S. degree in microelectronics (with a double major in economics) from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2015 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2018, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. Her interested research area includes analog, mixed-signal, and RF/mmWave IC designs. Her current research is focused on the development of microwave/mm-wave frequency impedance spectroscopy for biomedical applications with an emphasize on circuit and algorithmic techniques to achieve low-power and high-performance sensing. She was a recipient of the ADI outstanding student designer award in 2019, and a recipient of the IEEE SSCS Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award in 2020-21.