Lab Members

Graduate Students

Xichen Li Xichen Li joined the group in July.2019. Before that, he earned his BS degree in Applied Physics from China and MS degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from UTAustin. His research interest is broadband interference cancellation technique in wireless transceivers. In 2018, he was an analog/mixed-signal design intern with PhotonIC Technologies, Ltd, Shanghai, and with Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, in 2021, where he was involved in various projects such as wireline analog front end circuit and low power mixed signal circuit for next generation SoC applications. Xichen Li was also a winner of the 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
Deniz Dosluoglu Deniz received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2019 and a M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 2022. His PhD research is focused on analog and mixed-signal circuit design for mm-Wave phased-array transceivers. He is currently a mixed-signal cryo-IC design intern at Boeing Research & Technology. Deniz was the winner of the CDADIC best poster award in 2022.
Yi-Hsiang Huang Yi-Hsiang Huang received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2007, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2010, respectively. After graduation, he worked in the industry, where he has been involved in high-speed wireline transceiver circuits. He joined FAST lab in autumn 2019 and has been working on integrated full-duplex wireless transceivers. His research interests include analog/mixed-signal circuits.
Po-Hao Cheng Po-Hao Cheng received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He joined FAST lab in autumn 2020 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests include design of ultra-low-power transceivers, analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, adn RF integrated circuits for wireless communications and biomedical implantable systems.
Ahmed R. Aboulsaad Ahmed received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical communications engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He also worked as a Maths Teaching Assistant in the same university for 1 year, and as an Analog design TA in Zewail City for Science and Technology in Egypt for 1 year as well. He then joined Si-Vision LLC, Cairo, Egypt, in 2016 where he participated in the design of Bluetooth Low Energy transceivers, data converters, and wireline transceiver circuits. He joined FAST lab in January 2022, and his research focuses on circuit design for mmWave phased-array transceivers.

E-mail: arefaat@uw.edu
Elpida Karapepera Elpida received her BEng and MEng degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece in 2021. Elpida worked at HDL Design House as an Analog Design Engineer. She then joined FAST lab in Autumn 2022 to pursue her PhD. Her current research interests include analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.

Undergraduate Students

Jonathan Zhou Jonathan joined as an undergraduate research assistant in Summer 2021. He expects to receive his BSEE in 2022 and will be continuing into a PhD at Princeton University. His research interest area is RF ICs for high-speed wireless communication

E-mail: jonathanzhou62@gmail.com

Alumni

Phd Students

Venu Bhagavatula (Graduated in 2014) Phd Thesis Title: "Power and area optimization techniques for ultra wideband millimeter-wave CMOS transceivers" PDF
First Job: Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Title: Staff RFIC Design Engineer.
Soonkyun Shin (Graduated in 2014) Phd Thesis Title: "A Low-Power High-Speed High-Resolution Zero-Crossing Based Pipelined Analog to Digital Converter" PDF
First Job: Maxim Integrated.
Title: Principal Member of Technical Staff.
Tong Zhang (Graduated in 2017) Dr. Zhang received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from UW in 2014 and 2017, respectively. From 2013 to 2014, he was an Intern with Qualcomm Inc. and with Google Inc. in 2015, where he was involved in various projects such as mm-wave front-end circuits and baseband analog circuits for wireless applications. From 2017 to 2019, he was with Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences) working on various medical products. He is currently a senior silicon engineer in Google LLC working on ultra-low power circuits for SOC, Lidar and biomedical systems. Dr. Zhang was a recipient of the Analog Device Outstanding Student Designer Award (2014–2015), the SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (2015–2016), the UW EE Yang Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student (2017), the UW Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award (2017), and the ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award (2017).
Samrat Dey (Graduated in 2020) Samrat Dey received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2011. He joined the PhD program at the University of Washington in the year 2011. His research interests include analog and mixed signal ICs. He joined FAST lab in the fall of 2011, and has been working on front-end electronics for PET Imaging systems, in collaboration with the Radiology Department, University of Washington.
John P. Uehlin (Graduated in 2020) John received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 2013 and 2017,respectively. John focused on interfacing modern CMOS electronics with neurological systems in order to advance understanding of the brain. John has been involved in integrated circuit research and development for high-speed wireline communications, RF transceiver architectures, and optical interface electronics with the Silicon Systems Research Lab at UW and Noise Figure Research.
Kun-Da Chu (Graduated in 2021) Kun-Da Chu received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2005, and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2016, He worked with MStar Semiconductor Inc. and then MediaTek Inc, focusing on RF circuit design. His research interests include RF/analog/mixed-signal circuits. Currently he is working as a design engineer at Apple.

Master Students

Ivan Zhao (Graduated in 2021) Ivan is a senior pursuing his BSEE with a concentration on Integrated Systems. His research includes digital beam forming and high speed data converters for next generation millimeter-wave communications. He joined FAST labs as an undergraduate research in the summer of 2018.
Fucheng Yin (Graduated in 2021) I received my B.S. degree in 2018 and I am now pursuing Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington. I have a deep zeal on analog circuit design and have decided to propagate this enthusiasm to RF and mmWave circuit design.
Rajendra S. Hathwar (Graduated in 2021) Rajendra received his B.E degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the P.E.S. Institute of Technology in 2017. He joined the M.S. program at the University of Washington in the year 2019. His research interest includes Analog/RF/mmWave circuit design
Eric Pepin (Graduated in 2016) Eric received his BSEE from UW in 2012. He joined the FAST Lab thereafter, where his research focus was integrated circuit front-ends for neural interfaces. He received his MSEE from UW in 2015. Eric joined SpaceX in 2016, where he is currently working as a Senior RFIC engineer designing ICs for LEO satcom applications.

Master Thesis Title: "High-Voltage Compliant, Electrode-Invariant Neural Stimulation Electronics Compatible with Low-Voltage, Bulk-CMOS Integration" PDF
Chenxi Huang (Graduated in 2016) Chenxi received his BSEE from UW in 2013. He joined FAST Lab in 2012, where his research focused on the implementation of the first all-CMOS harmonic-rejection power amplifier. He received his MSEE degree from UW in 2016. Chenxi joined Maxim Integrated in 2016 as an Associate Member of Technical Staff where his work focused on the design of integrated crystal oscillators and VCOs. In 2017 he joined Cypress semiconductor as a Staff Electrical Engineer where he worked on the design of RF ICs for Bluetooth and WiFi. Currently he works at Apple Inc. as a hardware design engineer.
Daniel Micheletti (Graduated in 2015) Master Thesis Title: "A Prototype System and Circuits for the Development of an Implantable H-bridge Stimulator ASIC in a Bulk CMOS Process" PDF
First Job: Marvell Semiconductor.
Title: Digital Design and Verification Engineer.
Apsara Ravish Suvarna (Graduated in 2014) Master Thesis Title: "Transformer-Based Tunable Matching Networks implemented in Silicon CMOS" PDF
First Job: Qualcomm Incorated.
Current Job: Maxim Integrated.
Title: Member of Technical Staff.
William Wesson (Graduated in 2011) Will works on a fully integrated, regulatorless CMOS power amplifier for long-range wireless sensor communication First Job: Arda Technologies.
Current Job: Google Incorporated.
Title: Hardware Engineer.
Thomas Riedell (Graduated in 2014) Thomas worked as a laboratory assistant in the FAST lab from August 2013 to May 2014
First Job: Tesla Motor.
Title: Associate Electrical Engineer.
KA WO PANG (FRED) KA WO PANG joined the FAST group in Spring 2009 and worked on RF and mixed signal circuit design.

Undergraduate Students

Giorgio Minai Giorgio received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2018 and is currently pursuing his Master’s and PhD. He joined the FAST lab as an undergraduate in the summer of 2017. His research interests are in designing CMOS neural stimulator and recording chips to diagnose and treat neurological disorders.
Nathan Thai Nathan Thai expects to graduate in a B.S. in electrical engineering in 2018. He joined FAST lab as an undergraduate student in the Summer of 2017. Nathan's research interest includes RF/mm-wave/analog circuits.

Lab Interns

Ella Wassweiler Ella interned in the FAST lab during summer 2013 where she worked on neural interfacing circuits. Since then she has finished her PhD at MIT where she worked on improving the manufacturability of solar cells. Now she is a development engineer at First Solar.
Zhenghan Lin Zhenghan worked in the FAST lab as an undergrad summer intern in his 3rd year. He helped on the development and testing of a full-duplex transceiver system. After graduating from Peking University, Zhenghan has been pursuing a Ph. D. title in University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include beamforming techniques, analog/mixed-signal circuit design and methodology.
Josh Chen Josh received his B.S. degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley. During his time there, he served as a co-director of the Micromechanical Methods for Biology (M3B) lab in the Lin Lab working on 3D microfluidics and also smart bandages in the Maharbiz Lab. He joined the FAST lab as an NSF REU intern in the summer of 2016. After leaving Cal, he briefly worked at Verily Life Sciences prior to joining Rice University in 2017 to pursue his PhD in Bioengineering in the Robinson Lab as an NSF GRFP fellow. His research interests include wireless bioelectronics, bioMEMS/biomedical devices, and neural engineering..