SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award
Predoctoral Achievement Awards
For a small number of promising graduate students, the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award provides a $1,000 honorarium and reimbursement for registration fees to virtually attend all five Virtual SSCS sponsored conferences in 2021 (ISSCC, CICC, VLSI, ESSCIRC and A-SSCC), and educational materials from ISSCC. In addition, they will be invited to vitually meet luminaries of our field.
Applicants must be members of the IEEE and the Solid-State Circuits Society and have completed at least one year of study in a PhD program.in the area of solid state circuits. Awards are made on the basis of academic record and promise, quality of publications, and a graduate study program well matched to the charter of SSCS. Prior winners of the Predoctoral Achievement Award will not be eligible. No more than two awards will be granted in a given year to students of one Principal Advisor.
2020-2021 Application Instructions
Application Timetable
APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS PASSED. APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.
Winners will be announced in mid December 2020
All application documents should be delivered electronicaly. Please use pdf format whenever possible. Microsoft Word doc format is also acceptable, if necessary.
Please supply the following files:
- Biography (one page) including IEEE Member number and contact information
- A copy of all relevant undergraduate and graduate transcripts
- An essay on graduate study plan (about 2 pages) Summarize work that has been completed and work that must be done to complete your graduate program of study. Explain its importance and what is novel about the approach.
- A list of authored and co-authored publications
- Include a separate pdf of each publication (do not consolidate multiple publications into one pdf) Create an abbreviated file name for each pdf that includes the Journal or Conference and publication date (e.g. 5GHz Low power VCO, JSSC, Dec. 2018).
- Letters of Recommendation: At least two letters, one from the principal advisor, addressing academic record, accomplishments, and promise, and graduate research progrm. Students should follow up with their professors and other references to make sure the letters have been submitted by the deadline.
If you have any questions about the Predoctoral Achievement Award, please send an email to Lauren Caruso at l.caruso@ieee.org
2020-2021 Predoctoral Achievement Award Recipients
23 students were awarded the 2020-2021 Predoctoral Achievement Award.
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. |
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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. |
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 2nd 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Min-Woo Ko received the B.S. degree in Semiconductor System Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, in 2016 and master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in School of Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. His current research interests are analog integrated circuit design and power management IC design including battery management IC, battery charger, Linear Power Regulator, switched capacitor/inductive converter and hybrid converter topology. His work resulted in several publications including 3 first-authored International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC). Mr. Ko was the recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE SSCS predoctoral achievement award. |
![]() Jeongsup Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he was with TLi Inc., where he worked on designing high-speed video interfaces. From 2012 to 2015, he was with TeraSquare Inc. Seoul, Korea (acquired by GigPeak and later acquired by IDT and Renesas), where he was involved in designing 100 Gb/s Ethernet solutions. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan and his research area includes adaptive digital circuits and low-power IoT systems.
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![]() His Ph.D. research focuses on the interface between neural and electronic systems, creating low-power integrated circuits which utilize signal processing and machine learning techniques to infer brain states and control activity using responsive electrical neuromodulation. His research has resulted in 11 IEEE publications including three first-authored International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) papers and an article in the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). Mr. O’Leary is the co-founder and CTO of NerveX Neurotechnologies.
Mr. O’Leary was the recipient of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarship. He serves as a reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS) and the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI).
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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. |
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). |
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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. |
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). |
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Past Predoctoral Achievement Award Recipients
YEAR |
RECIPIENT |
AFFILIATION |
2019-2020 |
Pouyan Bassirian Minchang Cho Mahmoud Elhebeary Sujan Gonugondla Kaizhe Guo Tianyu Jia Xuyang Lu Mahmoud Mahdipour Karim Megawer Sining Pan Bishnu Patra Reza Pazhouhandeh Athanasios Ramkaj Hesam Sadeghi Cheng Wang Fei Wang Tzu-Fan Wu Seyeon Yoo Haosheng Zhang Wenda Zhao |
University of Virginia University of Michigan University of California, Los Angeles University of Illinois Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Northwestern University Princeton University University of Pavia University of Illinois Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology University of Toronto Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Pennsylvania State University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Georgia Tech University of Southern California Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Texas
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2018 - 2019 |
Sheikh Nijam Ali Woojun Choi Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi Hani Esmaeelzadeh Burak Gonen Min-Yun Huang Hossein Jalili Yaoyao Jia Haowei Jiang Chee Cheow Lim Parisa Mahmoudidaryan Nandish Mehta Susnata Mondal Aravind Nagulu Jian Pang Fahim ur Rahman Angad Rekhi Kamala Raghavan Sadagopan Linxiao Shen Kodai Ueyoshi Yi-Chung Wu Yang Jiang Heein Yoon Jingzhi Zhang |
Washington State Yonsei University Columbia University University of California, Los Angeles TU Delft Georgia Tech University of California, Davis Georgia Tech University of California, San Diego University of Malaya Arizona State University of California Berkeley Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Washington Stanford University Oregon State University University of Texas Hokkaido University National Taiwan University University of Macau Ulsan National Institute of Technology University of Electronic Science and Technology China |
2017-2018 |
Ali Mostajeran Bert Moons Chandrakanth Chappidi Chul Kim Hanli Liu Hans Reyserhove Hui Jiang Komail Badami Korkut Kaan Tokgoz Mahdi Assefzadeh Nai-Chung Kuo Nicolas Butzen Rouzbeh Kananizadeh Se-Un Shin Shanshan Dai Shaolan Li Shiyu Su Taiyun Chi Wei-Han Yu
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Univ of Michigan KU Leuven Princeton UCSD Tokyo Institute of Technology KU Leuven TU Delft KU Leuven Tokyo institute of Technology Rice UC Berkeley KU Leuven UC Davis KAIST Brown UT Austin USC Georgia Tech Univ. of Macau
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2016-2017 |
Chen Jiang Cheng-Ru Ho Hariprasad Chandrakumar Jongseok Park Junfeng Jiang Junmin Jiang Kaiyuan Yang Ka-Meng Lei Kyeongryeol Bong Lingyu Hong Loai Salem Marco Vigilante Negar Reiskarimian Romesh Nandwana Saad Bin Nasir Sherif Shakib Unsoo Ha Wooseok Choi Xue Wu Yu-Hsin Chen Zhiqiang Huang |
Cornell University University of Southern California University of California - Los Angeles Georgia Tech TU Delft Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of Michigan University of Macau Korean Advanced Institite of Science and Technology Princeton University University of California - San Diego KU Leuven Columbia University University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign Georgia Tech Texas A&M Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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2015-2016 |
Zeshan Ahmad Muhammad Awais Bin Altfaf Masoud Babaie Ahmed Ekholy Sameed Hameed Hyeok-Ki Hong Injoon Hong Song Hu Youchang Kim Xiaosen Liu Xinlin Liu Hans Meyvaert Saleh Heidary Shalmany Teerachot Siriburanon Amrith Sukumaran Tong Zhang Wouter Volkaerts Jianxun Zhu Jin Zhou |
University of Texas at Dallas Masdar Institute of Science and Technology TU Delft University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of California, Los Angeles Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Texas A&M University University of Pennsylvania University of Leuven (KU Leuven) TU Delft Tokyo Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology - Madras University of Washington KU Leuven Columbia University Columbia University |
2014-2015 |
Tejasvi Anand Chi-Hang Chan Run Chen Lin Cheng Kunal Datta Brecht Francois Sewook Hwang Zhicheng Lin Pramod Murali Natalie Reynders Guanghua Shu Hao-Yen Tang Hao Wu Jiawei Xu
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University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign University of Macau University of Southern California Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of Southern California University of Leuven (KU Leuven) Korea University University of macau University of California- Berkeley University of Leuven (KU Leuven) University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign University of California- Berkeley University of California- Los Angeles TU Delft
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2013-2014 |
Benrooz Abiri Jun-Chau Chien Ming-Shuan Chen Hyn-Sik Kim Yan Lu Yue Lu Zushu Yan Dixian Zhao
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California Institute of Technology National Taiwan University National Taiwan University KAIST Hong Kong University of Science and Technology UC Berkeley University of Macau KU Leuven
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2012-2013 |
Jiashu Chen Wei Deng Ruonan Han Lingkai Kong Hanh-Phuc Le I-Ting Lee Ahmed Musa Kamran Souri
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UC Berkeley Tokyo Institute of Technology Cornell University UC Berkeley UC Berkeley National Taiwan University Tokyo Institute of Technology Delft University School of Technology
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2011-2012 |
Kris Myny Meisam Nazari Kaushik Sengupta Yahya Tousi |
IMEC, Belgium California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Cornell University |
Predoctoral Fellowship Award Recipients
YEAR |
RECIPIENT |
AFFILIATION |
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2010-2011 |
Wooram Lee | Cornell University |
2009-2010 | Chengjie Zuo | University of Pennsylvania |
2008-2009 | Ankush Goel Shih-An Yu |
USC Columbia University |
2007-2008 | Jintae Kim Sudip Shekhar |
UCLA University of Washington |
2006-2007 | Peter Popplewell Chinmaya Mishra |
Carleton University Texas A&M University |
2002-2006 | none awarded | |
2001-2002 | Emad Hegazi John Wm. Rogers |
UCLA Carleton University |
2000-2001 | Liang Dia Jafar Savoj |
University of Minnesota UCLA |
1999-2000 | Mark Spaeth Shengwei Da |
MIT UC-Davis |
1998-1999 | Jouko Vankka | Helsinki University of Technology |
1997-1998 | Farbod Behbahani | University of California, Los Angeles |
1996-1997 | Ozan E. Erdogan | University of California, Davis |
1995-1996 | Jan Crols | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
1994-1995 | Kenneth J. Schultz | University of Toronto |
1993-1994 | Andrew E. Stevens | Columbia University |
1992-1993 | Michael Flynn | Carnegie Mellon University |
1991-1992 | Fang Lu | University of Califonia, Los Angeles |
1990-1991 | none awarded | |
1989-1990 | none awarded | |
1988-1989 | Terri Fiez | Oregon State University |
1987-1988 | Bernhard Boser | Stanford University |
1986-1987 | Lloyd Massengill | North Carolina State University |
1985-1986 | R. Wayne Johnson | Auburn University |
1984-1985 | Perry Robertson | Clemson University |
1983-1984 | Emil Girczyc | Carleton University |