Director

Professor Patrick Yue has 15 years of combined experience in academia and the semiconductor industry. His technical expertise and research interests are in the areas of CMOS RF and high-speed IC design, device and passive modeling, and CAD methodology for high-frequency analog ICs. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in EE from Stanford University in 1998 and 1994, respectively.

Since 2006, Prof. Yue has been an Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently the Associate Director for the Computer Engineering Program. Prior to joining UCSB, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University from 2003 to 2006. Prof. Yue is also an active industry consultant and currently serves on the technical advisory boards of several fabless startups.

Before entering academia, he co-founded Atheros Communications (NSDQ: ATHR) in 1998, where he worked for four years and was a core member of the team that delivered the world's first single-chip RFIC based on standard digital CMOS processes for the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard. Atheros' products are widely regarded as the underpinning technology that enabled WiFi. After leaving Atheros, Prof. Yue joined another startup, Aeluros, where he worked on signal integrity and component modeling for 10-Gbps I/O interface circuits based on CMOS technology. While working full time in the industry, Prof. Yue served as a Consulting Assistant Professor in Stanford University's EE Department. In this role, he supervised doctoral candidates on high-frequency circuit and device research projects. During his graduate study, Prof. Yue has held summer positions at Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard Lab, and Stanford University.

Prof. Yue has contributed to more than fifty peer-reviewed technical papers and two book chapters. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 ISSCC Best Student Paper Award for demonstrating the first on-chip standing-wave clock distribution circuit. His 1998 paper "On-chip spiral inductors with patterned ground shields for Si-based RF IC's" is among the thirty-eight all-time Top Cited Articles in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits according Thomson ISI. He currently holds a dozen U.S. patents, most of which are employed in commercial products. He has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE RFIC Symposium (RFIC), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference (A-SSCC), IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), and IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium (CSICS). He is a member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee and has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2005.

Affiliated Faculty

Mark Rodwell is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSB. He also directs the UCSB Nanofabrication laboratory and its participation in the NSF National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1988. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories during 1982-1984.

His research group works to extend the operation of electronics to the highest feasible frequencies. Their research thus includes semiconductor devices (diodes, transistors, photodiodes), semiconductor fabrication process, circuit design, interconnects, instruments, and communications systems.

Particular interests include InP bipolar transistors, III-V ICs operating above 100 GHz, and high frequency IC design in both III-V and Silicon VLSI technologies. His group's work on GaAs Schottky-diode ICs for subpicosecond / mm-wave instrumentation was awarded the 1997 IEEE Microwave Prize. Prof. Rodwell was elected IEEE Fellow in 2003.

Upamanyu Madhow is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His prior appointments include serving as a faculty in the ECE Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia).

He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1985. He received the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

Dr. Madhow's research interests are in wireless communication, sensor networks and data hiding. Dr. Madhow is a Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He has served as Associate Editor for Spread Spectrum for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and as Associate Editor for Detection and Estimation f or the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is a highly cited researcher (http://www.isihighlycited.com), and is among the top 10 most cited authors in "computer science'' over the period 1993-2003, according to the ISI Web of Science (http://in-cites.com/top/2003/first03-com.html).