SSCS Chip Chat

Prof Patrick Yue Currently, he is the Director of the HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center (ICDC), the Optical Wireless Lab (OWL), and the HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Lab IEEE Fellow Founder at LiPhy, http://liphy.io/ His research interest includes optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems, high-speed wireline communication SoC, millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits, indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications, and edge computing accelerator design for IoT applications. More than 200 publications, 20 patents https://ece.hkust.edu.hk/eepatrick

- Dr Yan Li is VP of Design Engineering at Western Digital.  We talk about importance of perseverance, progressing in your career despite setbacks, and finding talent in unlikely places. - Links:  - https://blog.westerndigital.com/design-engineering-yan-li-from-rebel-to-innovator/

Dr Alice Wang is Director of Silicon Engineering at PsiKick. She's also vice chair of engineering at IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits Committee. We talk about extreme low power circuits, different work cultures in US and Asia, and efforts to recruit more women in circuits. If you're interested in women in circuits, and they need help from men too, please visit https://sscs.ieee.org/women-in-circuits. You can also reach out to Dr Wang or any of the other members of the committee.

Dr Shantanu Chakrabartty is a professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St Louis. Dr Chakrabartty's research seeks to approach fundamental limits of energy efficiency, sensing and resolution. We talk about self-powered sensors, cyborg insects, and thermodynamically-driven circuits. There's also some advice for those who are starting out on their academic careers on how best to go about it. Dr Chakrabartty's lab website: https://aimlab.seas.wustl.edu/ Cyborg insects work: https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/WashU-engineers-to-use-cyborg-insects-as-biorobotic-sensing-machines.aspx Dr Gert Cauwenberghs episode: https://sscschipchat.podbean.com/e/interview-with-dr-gert-cauwenberghs/ SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org

Dr R Jacob Baker is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Baker has won numerous awards inclding UNLV ECE Department Distinguished Professor of the Year in 2015, IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design of memory circuits in 2013, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, 2012 - 2015, and IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Education Award in 2011 He is currently Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, and has served in various capacities at IEEE conferences and publications He has authored several textbooks including "CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation" and "CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design" Dr Baker has numerous patents, journal papers, and conference papers to his name He is a licensed professional engineer Dr Bakers's website: http://CMOSedu.com/jbaker/jbaker.htm SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org