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Peter Kinget is the Department Chair and Bernard J. Lechner Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York. He received his engineering and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (Belgium). His research group focusses on the design of analog and RF integrated circuits in scaled technologies and the novel systems or applications they enable in communications, sensing, and power management.

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PhD STUDENTS

Sarthak Kalani received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) in 2013, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2014. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. His research interests include time-domain amplifiers and hybrid pipeline-SAR ADCs.

Tanbir Haque is a part-time PhD student in Kinget Group.

Scott Newton is a part-time PhD student in Kinget Group.

Matthew Bajor received his B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree. His research interests includes analog&RFIC design, specifically for cognitive radio and multi-antenna/nodes sensing architectures.

Vivek Mangal received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.S. degree in Information and Communication Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2015. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include ultra-low-power transceivers and high-performance PLL synthesizers.

Yudong Zhang received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) in 2011, and his M.S. degree in integrated circuit engineering from Tsinghua University (China), in 2015. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include transceiver design for optical links and high-performance RF wireless communication circuits.

Guoxiang Han received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (China) in 2015, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2016. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include multi-antenna phased-array systems and next-generation high-performance wireless circuits.

Michael Unanian graduated at the University of California, San Diego for his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Honors in 2017. Currently, he is working towards his M.S. degree on the path towards a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Michael joined the group in Fall 2017 and his research interests include low-power IC design and high-performance PLL design.

Zhaowen Wang received his B.Eng. degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 2017. He joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2017. His research interests include CMOS RF and high-speed analog IC design.

Subhajit Ray received his B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2015 and his M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2017. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interest includes analog-to-feature converters for machine learning applications.

Former Ph.D. Students

Daniel de Godoy received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2015. His research interest sinclude ultra-low-power analog and mixed-signal sensor interfaces and their roles in embedded IoT systems.

Shravan Nagam received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as an Analog Engineer at Intel, Bangalore. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. He is the recipient of Analog Devices outstanding student designer award. His areas of interest include analog and RF circuits with special focus on PLLs.

B.S./M.S. STUDENTS

Ciyuan Zhang received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) in 2016. His research interests include communication circuits and signal processing. He has worked on a DoA-scanning project during summer 2017.

Louisa Sainz de la Maza received her B.S in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2018. She is currently working towards her M.S in electrical engineering while working at IBM on analog circuit design. Her research interests include ultra-low-power transceivers.

Rupal Gupta received her B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology (India) in 2013 and her M.S. degree from Columbia University in 2018. From 2013 to 2016, she was an RF front-end hardware engineer at Qualcomm (India). She is currently working at InterDigital Comm. Her research interests include RF and mixed signal circuit and system design.

Wendy Fernandez is a senior electrical engineering student at the City College of New York (CCNY). Her research interest includes ultra-low-power analog&RF circuits. She worked on an ultra-low-power analog sensors project with Daniel de Godoy during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Former VISITING SCHOLARS

Debajit Basak received his B.Tech. degree in electronics & communication engineering from National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was an assistant project engineer with the VLSI design laboratory, IIT Guwahati (India). He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include low-power circuits and continuous-time delta-sigma modulators. For FA'17 semester, he is a visiting scholar.