Former PhD Students (2000-2016)

Name	Advisor	Graduation Year	Dissertation
Xiaosen Liu	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2016	Power Management ICS For Internet Of Things, Energy Harvesting And Biomedical Devices
Jorge Edgar Zarate Roldan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2016	Ultra-Low Power Transmitter and Power Management for Internet-if-Things Devices
Salvador Carreon Bautista	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2014	Power Management Circuits for Energy Harvesting Applications
Adrian I. Colli-Menchi	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2014	Low-Power High-Efficiency Integrated Class-D Amplifier Circuits for Mobile Devices
Jiayi Jin	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2014	Analog and Mixed Signal Design Towards a Miniaturized Sleep Apnea Monitoring Device
Joselyn Torres	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2013	High Performance DC-DC Voltage Regulators and a High PSRR Class-D Audio Amplifier
Andreas Larsson	Jose Silva-Martinez		Nyquist-rate Switched-capacitor Analog-to-digital converters
Yung-Chung Lo	Jose Silva-Martinez
Zhuizhuan Yu	Sebastian Hoyos
Hemasundar Mohan Geddada	Jose Silva-Martinez	2013	Blocker Tolerant Radio Architectures
Chang Joon Park	Jose Silva-Martinez	2013	Design of Analog & Mixed Signal Circuits in Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulators for System-on-Chip Applications
Chengliang Qian	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2013	Low-Power Low-Noise CMOS Analog and Mixed-Signal Design towards Epileptic Seizure Detection
Ahmed Amer	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2012	High performance circuits for power management and millimeter wave applications
Ramy Ahmed Saad	Sebastian Hoyos	May 2012	Jitter Tolerance and Blocker-Tolerance of Delta-Sigma Analog-To Digital Converters for SAW-Less Multi-Standard Wireless Receivers
Ehab Ahmed Sobhy Abdel Ghany	Sebastian Hoyos	May 2012	Linearity and Noise Improvement Techniques Employing Low Power in Analog and RF Circuits and Systems
Jason Wardlaw	Aydin Karsilayan	Dec. 2011	Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Wireless Sensors
Ju Sung Kim	Jose Silva-Martinez	Dec. 2011	Broadband RF Front-End Design for Multi-Standard Receiver with High-Linearity and Low-Noise Techniques
Raghavendra Kulkarni	Jose Silva-Martinez	Dec. 2011	Analog Baseband Filters and Mixed Signal Circuits for Broadband Receiver Systems
Mohammed M. Abdul-Latif	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2011	Frequency Synthesizers and Oscillator Architectures Based on Multi-order Harmonic Generation
Erik Pankratz	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2011	Multi-Loop-Ring-Oscillator Design and Analysis for Sub-Micron CMOS
Mohamed Mostafa Elsayed	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2011	Time-Mode Analog Circuit Design For Nanometric Technologies
Ahmed Helmy	Kamran Entesari		Novel RF/Microwave Circuits And Systems for Lab on-Chip/on-Board Chemical Sensors
Marvin Onabajo	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2011	Development of Robust Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits in the Presence of Process-Voltage-Temperature Variations
Heng Zhang	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2010	High Performance RF and Basdband Analog-to-Digital Interface for Multi-standard/Wideband Applications
Didem Turker	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2010	Frequency Synthesis in Wireless and Wireline Systems
Mohamed Salah Mohamed Mobarak	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2010	Linearization and Efficiency Enhancement Techniques For RF and Baseband Analog Circuits
Cho-Ying Lu	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2010	Calibrated Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulators
Mohamed El-Nozahi	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio/Karman Entesari	May 2010	System and Circuit Design Techniques for Silicon-based Multi-band/Multi-standard Receivers
Hesam Amir Aslanzadeh	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2009	Design of a direct-modulation transmitter with self-optimizing feedback and a highly reconfigurable, continuously-tunable active-RC baseband filter for multiple standards
Miguel Rojas	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Aug. 2009	Design and Implementation of Switching Voltage Integrated Circuits Based on Sliding Mode Control
Rida Shawky Assaad	Jose Silva-Martinez	Dec. 2009	Design Techniques for High Speed Low Voltage and Low Power Non-Calibrated Pipeline Analog to Digital Converters
Faisal Hussien	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2009	Ultra Low Power IEEE 802.15.4/ZIGBEE Compliant Transceiver
Sang Wook Park	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2009	Oscillator Architectures and Enhanced Frequency Synthesizer
Manisha Gambhir	Jose Silva-Martinez / Edgar Sanchez Sinencio	Aug. 2009	Low Power Filtering Techniques for Wideband and Wireless Applications
Jinghhua Li	Jose Silva-Martinez	Dec. 2008	Design of clock data recovery IC for high speed data communication systems
Vijayakumar Dhanasekaran	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio / Jose Silva-Martinez	Aug. 2008	Baseband Analog Circuits in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technologies for Mobile Multimedia
Burak Kelleci	Aydin Karsilayan	Dec. 2007	Multi-band OFDM UWB Receiver with Narrowband Interference Suppression
Xiaohua Fan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2007	High Performance Building Blocks for Wireless Receiver: Multi-Stage Amplifiers and Low Noise Amplifiers
Chinmaya Mishra	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2007	Design and Implementation of Frequency Synthesizers for 3-10 GHz Multiband OFDM UWB Communication
Haitao Tong	Aydin Karsilayan	Aug. 2007	Design of CMOS integrated frequency synthesizers for ultra-wideband wireless communications systems
Timothy Fischer	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2007	An analog approach to interference suppression in ultra-wideband receivers
Jianhong Xiao	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2007	CMOS RF front-end design for terrestrial and mobile digital television systems
Mohammad Reza Samadi Boroujeni	Aydin Karsilayan	Dec. 2006	High performance CMOS integrated circuits for optical receivers
Alberto Valdes-Garcia	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2006	System-Level Design and RF Front-End Implementation for A 3-10GHz Multiband-OFDM Ultra Wideband Receiver and Built-In Testing Techniques For Analog and RF Integrated Circuits
Faramarz Bahmani	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2006	High Performance RF and Baseband Building Blocks for Wireless Receivers
Artur Lewinski	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	High frequency and high dynamic range continuous time filters
Bharath Kumar Thandri	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	Design of RF/IF analog to digital converters for software radio communication receivers
David Hernandez Garduño	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	Analog integrated circuit design techniques for high-speed signal processing in communications systems
Shanfeng Cheng	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	Design of CMOS integrated phase-locked loops for multi-gigabits serial data links
Sungtae Moon	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2005	Design of High Performance Frequency Synthesizers in Communication Systems
Taner Sumesaglam	Aydin Karsilayan.	Dec. 2004	Automatic Tuning of Continuous-Time Filters
Bo Xia	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2004	Analog-to-Digital Interface Design for Wireless Receiver
Chunyu Xin	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Aug. 2004	Radio Frequency Circuits for Wireless Receiver Front-Ends
Ari Y. Valero-Lopez	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2004	Design of Frequency Synthesizers for Short Range Wireless Transceivers
Ahmed Emira	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2003	Bluetooth/WLAN Receiver Design Methodology and IC Implementations
Mingdeng Chen	Jose Silva-Martinez.	Dec. 2003	Low-Voltage, Low-Power Circuits for Data Communication Systems
Ahmed N. Mohieldin	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Aug. 2003	High Performance Continuous-time Filters for Information Transfer Systems
Yunchu Li	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2003	Design of High Speed Folding and Interpolation Analog to Digital Converter
Keliu Shu	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2003	Design of a 2.4-GHz CMOS Monolithic Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer
Sicheng Chen	Ugur Cilingiroglu	March 2003	A Single-Chip Real-Time Range Finder
Shouli Yan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	Dec. 2002	Baseband Continouous-Time Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Conversion for ADSL Applications
Hengsheng Liu	Aydin Karsilayan.	Dec. 2002	Automatic Tuning for High Frequency Continuous-Time Bandpass Filters.
Fikret Dulger	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio.	May 2002	Fully-Integrated Building Blocks for Wireless Communication Transceiver Front-Ends on Silicon.
Mostafa Abdelhakam Ibrahim Elmala	Sherif H. K. Embabi.	May 2002	New Techniques for Integrated Monolithic Wireless Receivers
Antonio Francisco Mondragon-Torres	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2002	Monolithic Implementation of Turbo Codes
Benoit Provost	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio.	May 2002	Design Methodology for Mixed-Signal AC BIST and ADC Self-Calibration
Wenjun Shen	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio.	May 2002	The Design and Implementation of CMOS Radio Frequency Receiver.
Lei Wang	Sherif H. K. Embabi.	Dec. 2001	Low Voltage High Speed Switched Capacitor Circuit Design.
Mohamed Abdel Hakam Ibrahim Mostafa	Sherif H. K. Embabi.	May 2001	IF Subsampling Digital Radio Receiver
Jinseok Koh	Sherif H. K. Embabi and Franco Maloberti.	Dec. 2000	Adaptive Noise Shaping in Oversampled ADC Based on LMS Algorithm.
Wei Zhuo	Sherif H. K. Embabi.	May 2000	Low Noise Amplifier and Down-Conversion Mixer Design for Direct-Conversion Receiver.