Current Members

Mohamed Elzeftawi received his B.Sc. degree with honor in Electronics and Communications Engineering in 2004 and his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics in 2007, both from Cairo University, Egypt. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara under supervision of both Prof. Luke Theogarajan and Prof. Patrick Yue. His research interest include low-power/low-noise/small-area amplifier and ADC design for wirelessly powered high-density neural implants (HDNI).

Li Sun received his BS degree in Fundamental Science in 2007 from Tsinghua University, China; and his MS in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from University of California, Irvine. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara under supervision of Professor Patrick Yue. His research interests include CMOS RFIC design, especially the high speed CDR and PLL circuit for optical and wireline communication system.

Matthew Guidry received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 2008 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked at Toyon Research Corporation in Santa Barbara since 2006, beginning as an intern and currently a part-time employee. While there he has supported work on phased array radar systems, advanced GPS receivers, antenna tuning and characterization, and orbital system simulation and research. He is currently pursuing his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Yue and Prof. Robert York. His interests include low power and high efficiency circuit designs, antennas, and system design.

Group Alumni

Dong Hun (Peter) Shin received his BS and MS degrees in Electronics Engineering from Kon-kuk University, Seoul, Korea in 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2004, he was with Ansoft Corporation as a senior application engineer focusing on high-frequency and high-speed applications. In 2005 and 2006, he was with Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara, CA, as an intern, working on the design of a WLAN T/R switch and a FM receiver. Currently he reseived his PhD degree at University of California, Santa Barbara in the field of modeling and design of RFICs on Oct 2009. He is now working at Marvell Semiconductor Inc.

PilJae Park received his BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Youngnam University in 1998, and in Mechatronics engineering from the Gwang-Ju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 2000, respectively. In 2000, he joined RF/Analog IC Design Team at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejon, South Korea, where he has developed RF CMOS transceivers for mobile Internet applications. He was involved in more than 5 government projects as a research engineer. In year 2004, he joined the High speed silicon Lab at ECE department of University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include millimeter wave, RF/Analog circuit design in a silicon technology. He received his PhD degree at University of California, Santa Barbara on Dec 2008. He is now working at ETRI, Daejon, South Korea.

Colin Sheldon received the Sc.B. degree in electrical engineering from Brown University in 2004 and the MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2006. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Rodwell, Patrick Yue and Upamanyu Madhow. His research interests include high speed circuit design, coherent optical communications, and wireless communication links.

Jieun Jang received her MS degree in EE from UCSB in Dec. 2007. She is now working in Korea. For her MS thesis study, she worked on low-power adaptive equalizer for high-speed I/Os and integrated piezoelectric sensors for highway structural health monitoring. Ms. Jang also holds a BS and a MS degree in civil engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Paul Pan received his BS degree in EE with honor from UCSB. He is now pursuing his PhD degree at Columbia Univeristy. During his time at HS2L, he invesitgated common-gate power amplifier for 60-GHz short-range high-data-rate wireless links and on-chip power combining techniques.

Meng Li is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, under the supervision of Prof. Zhiping Yu. She received her BE degree from Xian University of Electronic Science and Technology in 2004. Her thesis work focuses on compact modeling of multi-gate MOSFETs in nano-scale CMOS technologies. She has been awarded a State Scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to study aboard. she was a visiting scholar in the High-Speed Silicon Lab at USCB working on physcial modeling of on-chip transformers for CMOS RF and mm-wave IC's from Sep 2008 to Sep 2009.