March, 2018: I gave an invited talk at AWSSS'18 at Taoyuan, Taiwan, entitled "Enabling Energy-Efficient Nonvolatile Processing and Storage for IoT with Beyond-CMOS Ferroelectric FETs".
March, 2018: my special session proposal at ISVLSI'18 was accepted, entitled "Design using Emerging Devices". See you at Hong Kong in July!
February, 2018: Congratulations to Longqiang for the acceptance of paper to appear at International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications: "Redundancy-bandwidth scalable techniques for signal-independent element transition rates in high-speed current-steering DACs"
February, 2018: Congratulations to Longqiang for the acceptance of paper to appear at Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing: "A 14-Bit 500-MS/s DAC with 211-MHz 70 dB SFDR Bandwidth Using TRI-DEMRZ"
January, 2018: I've transitioned from Penn State University to Tsinghua University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
Education
Ph.D. , Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 08/2007-07/2013 Thesis Title: Wideband High-Dynamic-Range D/A Converter Design
B.S., Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 08/2003-07/2007
Research Interests
"Post-CMOS" circuit and system design using emerging devices, e.g. Tunnel FETs (TFET), Ferroelectric negative capacitance FET (NCFET), Hyper-FET, SymFET, etc.
Circuit design of rectifier, DC-DC converter, current-mode logic (CML), ADC, DAC, memory, etc.
RF-powered system design for higher power-conversion efficiency;
Nonvolatile processor (NVP) optimization and battery-less systems;
Emerging device evaluation for analog and mixed-signal circuit and systems.
Mixed-signal CMOS IC design, including data converters, energy harvesters (rectifier, DC-DC converter), memory, etc.
Honors and Awards
DARPA/STARnet LEAST Center Best Publication Award (2017)
IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS) Best Paper Award (2017)