Award Information
For a small number of promising graduate students, the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award provides a $1,000 honorarium as well as reimbursement of select expenses incurred by the awardee for attending the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
Applicants must be members of the IEEE and the Solid-State Circuits Society, have completed at least one year of study in a PhD program in the area of solid state circuits, and not have received a PhD degree in the area of solid state circuits prior to the final application deadline. 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.
Any individual applying in the same year for both the Predoctoral Achievement Award and a student travel grant via the STGA program will be eligible to receive only one award, to be determined at the discretion of the judges.
This year’s application window is from 8/1/2024 at 12:00 AM to 10/15/2024 at 11:59 PM (UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00 Daylight.)
Required Material:
- A brief biography (1 paragraph, to be made publicly available if you are selected for an award)
- A headshot of yourself (vertical orientation strongly preferred)
- CV that includes: (a) your prior and current education, (b) a list of your career publications, and (c) any other useful information such as relevant work experience and service activities.
- Your PhD study plan. This should be succinct (maximum 3 pages) and include: (a) a tentative timeline starting from when you began the PhD and including key milestones such as qualifying exams and coursework (depending on your own institutional requirements), and (b) a description of the main question your thesis is attempting to address and why it is relevant. Please also tell us if you will be fabricating ICs, and if you are collaborating with others.
- At least two recommendation letters: one from the principal advisor addressing academic record, accomplishments, and promise; and one from your graduate research program (ideally from a professor who has instructed you.)
2023-2024 Predoctoral Achievement Award Recipients
Heyi Li received the B.S. degree (with honors) from the College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, in 2017, and the M.S. degree (with honors) from the School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, China.
His current research interests include energy-efficient sensor interfaces and innovative analog and mixed-signal circuits. He has first-authored and co-authored several papers in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC) and Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). He was a recipient of the 2023-2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award and the 2021 ISSCC Demonstration-Session Award.
Heyi Li
Yifan He received the B.S. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is now pursing the Ph.D. degree in Tsinghua University under the guidance of Prof. Yongpan Liu. His doctoral research includes emerging non-volatile memories and in-memory computing designs with a focus on digital circuit technology for superior efficiency and compute density. He has first-authored two papers in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and co-authored several papers in Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI) and Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), where he also serves as a reviewer.
Yifan He
Tianxiang Qu (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received his B.S. and M.S. Degrees in electronic science and technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. Degree at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include high-precision analog and sensor interfaces. Mr. Qu serves as a technical reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is a co-recipient of the ISSCC Silkroad Award in 2022. His works have led to several firstauthored publications at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), and the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).
Tianxiang Qu
Xinjian Liu received his BEng in Microelectronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2019. He joined the University of Virginia (UVa) in July 2019 and is working towards his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include low-power DC-DC converter, Power Management Unit, and IoT System-on-Chip design.
In the summer of 2022, he was a Silicon Design Intern with Everactive, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Xinjian was a recipient of the SSCS International Student Circuits Video Contest Award in 2020. His research resulted in first-authored publication in Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and 3 first-authored publications in IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) consecutively from 2022 to 2024.
Xinjian Liu
Xinling Yue joined the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory at Delft University of Technology in December 2020, Delft, Netherlands, where she is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics. She received her B.S. degree and M.S degree from Qufu Normal University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2017 and 2020 respectively. Her current research is focused on energy-efficient power management integrated circuits and systems, which include energy harvesting, AC/DC rectifiers, DC/DC converters, and maximum power point tracking techniques.
Her research has resulted in over ten first-authored publications at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Journal of SolidState Circuits (JSSC), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCASII): Express Briefs etc. She has served as a technical reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, and the IEEE Sensors Journal etc. She received the Best Student Paper Award at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Student Travel Grant Awards in 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and 2023 ISSCC.
Xinling Yue
Mostafa Essawy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2014 and 2019. From 2014 to 2019, he was an analog/mixed-signal IC Design Engineer with Si-Ware Systems, Cairo. In 2022, he was an RFIC Design Intern with Apple. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA. His current research interests include RF and mm-wave circuits and systems in next-generation wireless communications and radar. He was selected for the EECS Outstanding Scholar Program at Oregon State University in 2019, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2022. He has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, and for Springer: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (CSSP).
Mostafa Essawy
Chengshuo Yu (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
His primary areas of interest encompass mixed-signal SRAM/DRAM-based in-memory computing, time-domain hardware acceleration, and Ising machines for tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. His commitment and innovative work have led to multiple first-authored publications in prestigious IEEE journals and conferences, including the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I). He serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II).
Chengshuo Yu
Yoontae Jung (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2017 and 2019, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. His current research interests include the design of low-power low-noise sensor interface integrated circuits, biomedical integrated circuits, neural interface systems, and power-efficient high-resolution data converters.
His Ph.D. research resulted in several publications in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (SOVC), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II) and etc. Mr. Jung also served as a reviewer for the IEEE JSSC, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, and Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS). He was a recipient of IEEE Circuit and System Society (CASS) Student Travel Grant Award (2023).
Yoontae Jung
Tingxu Hu received the B.E. degree from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau, Macao, China. His research interests include RF energy harvesting, hybrid DC-DC converter and isolated power converter. His research has resulted in first-authored IEEE publications in Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
Tingxu Hu
Yongjae Park (S’18) received the B.S. (Summa cum laude) degree in electrical engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, in 2018, where he is currently pursuing the combined M.S and Ph.D degree. He was a visiting scholar in University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA from Aug 2022 to Jul 2023. His current research interests include CMOS analog/mixed IC designs, especially low noise sensor front-end for bio-potential recording system and imaging system. He has authored and co-authored in several publications in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuit (VLSI), IEEE Asian SolidState Circuit Conference (A-SSCC), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L). He has served as a reviewer for the IEEE JSSC, IEEE TBioCAS, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System Ⅱ: Express Briefs (TCAS-Ⅱ) and IEEE International Symposium on Circuit and System (ISCAS).
Yongjae Park
Kyeongho Eom (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2020, where he is currently pursuing the M.S. and Ph.D. joint degree.
His current research interest includes analog/mixed-signal IC designs for neural interfaces and retinal prostheses. His work so far resulted in first/co-authored conference papers at International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) and journal papers in Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), and Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I).
Mr. Eom was a recipient of the Presidential Award (1st) in the 24th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition in 2023, and a co-recipient of the Outstanding Student Paper Award from IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in 2023.
He is a member of both IEEE and the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He has completed his Ph.D. coursework and is currently in his 4th year of a joint M.S./Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering.
Kyeongho Eom
Rozhan Rabbani received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2018. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. She received her Master’s degree in 2023 and is expecting to graduate in May 2024. At Sharif University of Technology, she worked on analog and mixed-signal circuits to minimize power consumption of wearable ECG sensors. Her research at UC Berkeley is focused on developing biosensing, energy harvesting and low-power sensors, specifically implantable image sensors for cancer therapy. Her work has led to one pending US patent, been accepted to ISSCC24 and published at CICC, EMBC, IEEE Sensors Journal, etc. She interned at Apple Inc. during Summers 2020 and 2022 working on electrical modeling for optical components in the Camera Hardware group and built-in self-test circuits for high-speed applications as a part of the High-Speed Converters team. She was the recipient of the Grace Hopper scholarship in 2021 and the Apple Ph.D. Fellowship in Integrated Circuits in 2022. Rozhan has served as a technical reviewer of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Rozhan Rabbani
Yipeng Wang is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his bachelor degree with outstanding honor from Beihang University (Bejing Univ of A. & A.). He was a research assistant in Tsinghua University 2020, where he worked on ML accelerators, SRAM in-memory computing and RISCV SoCs with NICS group. He was ASIC intern in Apple 2022 and 2023 summer. His current research interests are Compute-in-memory systems, RISC-V CPU/GPU, and architecture based on novel technology/device. Yipeng serves as reviewer for TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TVLSI, DAC, JETCAS, and TETC.
Yipeng Wang
Tuur was born in Belgium in 1995.
In 2013, he started studying engineering at KU Leuven. He was honored with the Best Student Award from the Faculty of Engineering Science in 2014. Beyond his academic pursuits, he continued his boundless curiosity for electronics through various extracurricular activities. He has successfully designed a PCB datalogger to monitor a solar panel installation in DR Congo, which he installed on-site. Additionally, he taught electronics at the Children’s University and followed a two-week telecommunication training during his summer break.
In 2018, he obtained his M. Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude (83 %), from KU Leuven. His master’s thesis paper was published at the International Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, where he received the Bronze Leaf Award. During his education, he pursued three additional international courses at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the University of Podgorica, and the University of Patras. He also completed a voluntary internship at the company Melexis, where he designed a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC).
In October 2018, he started his Ph.D. at the KU Leuven ESAT-MICAS Research group, focusing on fully integrated high-voltage DC-DC and AC-DC conversion. One month later, he successfully presented his research proposal before an expert panel of Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship, resulting in the Baekeland grant to fund his research. During his Ph.D., he co-founded the SSCS Student Chapter Leuven, which organizes inspiring lectures and symposia about microelectronics.
Tuur is the first author of four publications, with one more already accepted and an additional JSSC invite currently in submission. His most recent conference papers were published at the 2023 VLSI Symposium and the 2022 CICC conference, which were both invited for a JSSC extension based on the quality of the work. His VLSI paper ranked among the highest at the conference, granting him an exclusive invitation to the IBM luncheon. He received the 2022 Golden Award in the Huawei Ph.D. Student Contest and two SSCS travel grants in 2022 and 2023.
Tuur Van Daele
Sidharth Thomas received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2020, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2022, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. He was an RF/mm-Wave design intern at Texas Instruments, Dallas in Summer 2023, where he worked on mm-Wave IC design. Prior to this, he interned at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2018 and 2019.
His research interests include high-frequency integrated circuit design for wireless communication, imaging, and sensing applications. His research has resulted in various publications in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) etc. Mr. Thomas received the IIT Roorkee ECE Department Gold Medal in 2020, the UCLA Guru Krupa Fellowship in 2020, the IEEE MTT-S Pre-Graduate/Graduate Fellowship in 2022, the 2023 IEEE ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, and was a presenter at the 2023 ISSCC Student Research Preview.
Sidharth Thomas
Yihong Zhu received his B.E. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China in 2018. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology with the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include reconfigurable cryptographic accelerator design, particularly agile post quantum chip implementation, as well as domain specific architecture and the efficient mapping of algorithms. He has first-authored several papers in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-1), and IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), etc. Mr. Zhu received the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students in 2022, Tsinghua University Scholarship for Future Scholars in 2018, Outstanding Undergraduate Graduates in 2018, and the first prize of Chinese National Mathematical Competition in 2015.
Yihong Zhu
Soroush Araei (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. During the summers of 2022 and 2023, he was an Intern with Apple Inc.’s analog-mixed signal team, Cambridge, MA. His research interests include RF and mm-wave circuits for wireless communication applications. Mr. Araei was a recipient of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2020 Student Education Grant Award and the 2023 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.
Soroush Araei
Bowen Wang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in integrated circuit design and integrated systems, from Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, in 2018. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Woogeun Rhee with the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University. His research interests include mixed-signal and RF circuit design for low-power, short-range communications. He has first-authored and co-authored more than 10 papers, including IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), and Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
Bowen Wang
Jooeun Bang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1995. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. Her research interests include RF and analog/mixed-signal IC designs, especially low-jitter low-power clock generation circuits for beyond 5G wireless and high-speed wireline systems and fast-transient-response low-power digital low-dropout regulators. Ms. Bang received the Presidential Award and the Corporate Special Award at the 22nd and 21st Korea Semiconductor Design Competition in 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Jooeun Bang
Yuhao Ju received the B.S. degree in Integrated Circuits Design and Integrated System from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2017, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at the VLSI lab from Northwestern University. His current research interests include efficient architecture design for AI/ML accelerator and SoC, AI/ML related optimization for computer architecture and parallel computing, high performance scientific computing acceleration. His work is accepted for the best poster award in the 3rd IBM IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium. He is the first author and co-author for several publications based on his research in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSCIRC), IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), etc. He also serves as a reviewer for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI).
Yuhao Ju
Yijie Wei received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering(cum laude) from University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA and North China University of Technology, Beijing, China respectively in 2017, and the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, USA in 2019. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree at Northwestern University. His main research interests are in biosignals AI classification SoC, body area system, low power mixed signal circuits design. His previous works has been accepted by IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) and IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) respectively. He also serves as a reviewer of IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
Yijie Wei
Ahmed Abdelrahman (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, where he conducts research on low-power wireline optical receivers for short-reach applications. In summer 2021, he was a Hardware Intern in Optical Systems & Interconnects group, Cisco Systems, PA, USA, where he worked on high-performance Coherent/IMDD optical transceivers. From 2011 to 2019, he was a Staff Analog/RF Design Engineer at Si-Ware Systems, Cairo, Egypt, designing self-compensated LC reference oscillators and wireless power delivery transceivers. His research interests include energy-efficient wireline transceivers, high-performance PLLs, temperature- and aging-compensated oscillators and RF integrated circuits. He holds one U.S. patent, and his research resulted in several publications in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuit (JSSC), International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits (VLSI). Mr. Abdelrahman is a two-year recipient of Andrew T. Yang Research and Entrepreneurship Award from the University of Illinois for the period 2020–2022.
Ahmed Abdelrahman
Xiaohan Zhang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2019, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. His current research focuses on millimeter-wave/THz integrated circuits and systems for wireless communications. From August 2021 to May 2022, he was an internship student at Samsung Research America (SRA), working on THz IC design. He received the ISSCC travel grant award in 2023, the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award Finalist in 2022 and the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Student Paper Award in 2021. He was also a co-recipient of IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Industry Paper Award Finalist in 2023. He has served as a reviewer of the IEEE JSSC, TCAS-I, and TCAS-II.
Xiaohan Zhang
Kiseo Kang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, in 2018 and 2020, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree all in electronic and electrical engineering. Also, he is currently a student researcher at Google Quantum AI (Goleta, CA). His research interests include mixed-signal circuits and cryo-CMOS circuits for quantum computing.
He has been awarded the Global Ph.D. scholarship by the Korean government from 2019 to 2023. His Ph.D. research resulted in several first-authored IEEE publications in the Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI) in 2021, International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2022, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) in 2022 and ISSCC in 2023.
Kiseo Kang
Chanwoong Hwang (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) was born in Ulsan, South Korea, in 1994. He received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the M.S/Ph.D. degree with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea. His research interests include CMOS analog/mixed integrated circuit (IC) designs, especially high-speed clock/frequency generation systems. He received two Silver Prizes (2021 and 2020) in the Samsung Human-Tech Paper Award in Circuit Design hosted by Samsung Electronics.
Chanwoong Hwang
Juzheng Liu (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received his B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He was a Ph.D. intern in MediaTek from 2022 Q1 to 2023 Q3. His research interests include high-speed data converter design, machine-learning-based circuit modeling, and circuit design automation. Juzheng Liu was a recipient of the ISSCC 2022 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper. He is a USC Ming Hsieh Institute Scholar from 2023 to 2024. Juzheng has served as the technical reviewer of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Juzheng Liu
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | Alessandro Novello Zhixian Deng Xi Chen Huajun Zhang Suneui Park Lucas Moura Santana Yannick Hopf Qiaochu Zhang Yongtae Lee Zhe Liu Mingtao Zhan Richelle Smith Simone M. Dartizio Qijun Liu Xi Fu Haijun Shao Tzu-Yuan Huang Subhajit Ray Uisub Shin Kota Shiba Yuqi Su Tzu-Han Wang Vikram Jain Sepideh Nouri Arthur C. de Oliveira Ariane De Vroede |
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| 2021-2022 | Ibrahim Abdo Chen Chen Yingying Fan Archisman Ghosh Jiang Gong Han Hao Yan He Shoubhik Karmakar Juyeop Kim Keun-Mok Kim Changuk Lee Naga Sasikanth Mannem Inho Park Sujin Park Masoud Pashaeifar Corentin Pochet Junjun Qiu Sam Razavian Thije Rooijers Hooman Saeidi Dragan Simic Arian Hashemi Talkhooncheh Thierry Tambe Zhaowen Wang Shanshan Xie Bingzheng Yang Joanne Tan Si Ying Zhanghao Yu |
Tokyo Inst of Technology UT Dallas Rice Purdue TU Delft UPenn Rice TU Delft KAIST KAIST Yonsei University Georgia Tech Korea University KAIST Tokyo Inst of Technology UC San Diego TU Delft UCLA TU Delft Princeton KU Leuven CalTech Harvard Columbia UT Austin UESTC University of Singapore Rice |
| 2020-2021 | Ahmad Rezvanitabar Ali Binaie Andrea Ruffino Anjana Dissanayake Aoyang Zhang Aya Amer Debayan Das Elly De Pelecijn Gerard O’Leary Jeongsup Lee Jiamin Li Kuan-Chang Chen Luya Zhang Milad Frounchi Min-Woo Ko Mohamed Ibrahim Mohammad Khorshidian MoonHyung Jang Robin Garg Sachin Taneja Shi Bu Wei Shi Xun Sun Yiyang Shu |
Georgia Tech Columbia EPFL Virginia USC MIT Purdue KUL University of Toronto Michigan University of Singapore Cal Tech UC Berkeley Georgia Tech KAIST MIT Columbia Yonsei University Oregon State University of Singapore UCLA UT Austin University of Washington UESTC |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 SalemMarco 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 2013-2014 | Benrooz Abiri Jun-Chau Chien Ming-Shuan Chen Hyn-Sik Kim Yan Lu Yue Lu Zushu Yan Dixian Zhao |
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 |
| 2012-2013 | Jiashu Chen Wei Deng Ruonan Han Lingkai Kong Hanh-Phuc Le I-Ting Lee Ahmed Musa Kamran Souri |
UC Berkeley Tokyo Institute of Technology Cornell University UC Berkeley UC Berkeley National Taiwan University Tokyo Institute of Technology Delft University School of Technology |
| 2011-2012 | Kris Myny Meisam Nazari Kaushik Sengupta Yahya Tousi |
IMEC, Belgium California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Cornell University |
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |