SSCS Chip Chat

Interview with Dr Patrick Yue

Prof Patrick Yue

• Currently, he is the Director of the HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center (ICDC), the Optical Wireless Lab (OWL), and the HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Lab
• IEEE Fellow
• Founder at LiPhy, http://liphy.io/
• His research interest includes optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems, high-speed wireline communication SoC, millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits, indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications, and edge computing accelerator design for IoT applications.
• More than 200 publications, 20 patents
• https://ece.hkust.edu.hk/eepatrick

Interview with Dr Yan Li

- Dr Yan Li is VP of Design Engineering at Western Digital.  We talk about importance of perseverance, progressing in your career despite setbacks, and finding talent in unlikely places.

- Links:

 - https://blog.westerndigital.com/design-engineering-yan-li-from-rebel-to-innovator/

Interview with Dr Alice Wang

Dr Alice Wang is Director of Silicon Engineering at PsiKick. She's also vice chair of engineering at IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits Committee. We talk about extreme low power circuits, different work cultures in US and Asia, and efforts to recruit more women in circuits.

If you're interested in women in circuits, and they need help from men too, please visit https://sscs.ieee.org/women-in-circuits. You can also reach out to Dr Wang or any of the other members of the committee.

Interview with Dr Shantanu Chakrabartty

Dr Shantanu Chakrabartty is a professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St Louis.

Dr Chakrabartty's research seeks to approach fundamental limits of energy efficiency, sensing and resolution. We talk about self-powered sensors, cyborg insects, and thermodynamically-driven circuits. There's also some advice for those who are starting out on their academic careers on how best to go about it.

• Dr Chakrabartty's lab website: https://aimlab.seas.wustl.edu/
• Cyborg insects work: https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/WashU-engineers-to-use-cyborg-insects-as-biorobotic-sensing-machines.aspx
• Dr Gert Cauwenberghs episode: https://sscschipchat.podbean.com/e/interview-with-dr-gert-cauwenberghs/
• SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org

Interview with Dr R Jacob Baker

• Dr R Jacob Baker is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Dr. Baker has won numerous awards inclding UNLV ECE Department Distinguished Professor of the Year in 2015, IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design of memory circuits in 2013, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, 2012 - 2015, and IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Education Award in 2011
• He is currently Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, and has served in various capacities at IEEE conferences and publications
• He has authored several textbooks including "CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation" and "CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design"
• Dr Baker has numerous patents, journal papers, and conference papers to his name
• He is a licensed professional engineer
• Dr Bakers's website: http://CMOSedu.com/jbaker/jbaker.htm
• SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org

Interview with Dr Shanthi Pavan

• Dr Shanthi Pavan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
• Dr. Pavan is the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences (2012), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2009), the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (2010, from the Government of India) , the Young Faculty Recognition Award from IIT Madras (2009, for excellence in teaching) , the Technomentor Award from the India Semiconductor Association (2010) and the Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2006).
• He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I - Regular Papers (2014-2015), and earlier served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II - Express Briefs (2006-2007).
• He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, and on the technical program committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
• He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
• Dr Pavan's website: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~shanthi/index.html
• SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org

Interview with Dr Albert Theuwissen

• Dr Albert Theuwissen is CEO and Founder of Harvest Imaging
• Since 2001 he has been a part-time professor at TU Delft where he coaches PhD students researching CMOS image sensors.
• He received his Ph.D. degree from KU Leuven in 1983.
• Worked at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven where he became head of the department of Imaging Devices in 1991
• CTO at DALSA Corp and later Chief Scientist at DALSA Semiconductors
• He is a prolific researcher with 200+ technical papers and several patents to his name.
• His book 'Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices' (1995) is still considered one of the main text books in solid-state imaging.
• Together with his peers, Eric Fossum and Nobukazu Teranishi, he founded the International Image Sensor Society, a non-profit organization to stimulate sharing of technical knowledge in the field of digital image capturing.
• He has received the SMPTE's (Society for Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) Fuji Gold Medal for his contributions in research, development and education in the field of solid-state image capturing. In 2010 he was elected to be the 'Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year'. In 2013 he received the Exceptional Service Award of IISS and in 2014 the SEMI Award.
• Harvest Imaging: http://www.harvestimaging.com/
• Harvest Imaging Blog: http://harvestimaging.com/blog/
• SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org

Interview with Dr Gert Cauwenberghs

• Dr Gert Cauwenberghs is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Director of the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego, La Jolla CA.
• Received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from CalTech in 1994 and undergraduate in his native Brussels in 1988.
• Previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT.
• Co-founded Cognionics Inc. and chairs its Scientific Advisory Board.
• His research focuses on micropower biomedical instrumentation, neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, and adaptive intelligent systems.
• He received the NSF Career Award in 1997, ONR Young Investigator Award in 1999, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. He was a Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He served IEEE in a variety of roles including as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, as General Chair of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2011, San Diego), as Program Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2012, San Diego), and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
• UCSD Webpage: http://isn.ucsd.edu/
• Cognionics: https://www.cognionics.net/
• SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org