People

 

Faculty

Vanessa Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) earned her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor, she was affiliated with The Ohio State University. During her doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon from 2010 to 2013, she conducted research on algorithm-assisted approaches for improving energy efficiency and ultra-high-speed ADCs with on-chip real-time calibration, and interned at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2012. Prior to academia, she held positions as a circuit designer at Qualcomm in San Diego and Realtek, Hsinchu, Taiwan, focusing on self-healing RF/Mixed-signal circuits.
Her research focuses on AI-enhanced circuits and systems, which include intelligent sensory interfaces, RF/mixed-signal hardware security, and ubiquitous sensing and computing systems. She has received the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.
She has served as an Associate Editor for several IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS). Additionally, she has contributed as a Guest Editor for the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC). She has also been involved in various technical program committees, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC).

 

 

Research Scientists

 

Yi-Chung (Ethan) Chen joined the EECS Lab as a research scientist. His research interests include neuromorphic computing for neural networks and biomedical interfaces.

 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Jiachen Xu received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2020. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Carnegie Mellon University with interests in brain-inspired machine-learning algorithms and embedded system design for wireless applications. He is a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2022. (webside)

 

 

Yuyi Shen received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, and is working toward the Ph.D. degree at Carnegie Mellon University. She held an internship position at Apple Inc. in 2020, and is primarily interested in RFIC design with a focus on the application of RF circuits to security and device identification. She is a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2021, the Ben Cook Graduate Fellowship in 2022, and the Nicholas Minnici (E ’59) Dean’s Graduate Fellowship in 2024.

 

 

John Kan received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign in 2019. As an undergraduate, he designed an educational swarm robotics platform and worked to build UAV platforms for cyber-physical system security. He is currently a PhD student in the EECS lab at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests include cyber-physical system security, data collection and processing, and low-power sensors. He is a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2023 and the David H. Barakat and LaVerne Owen-Barakat College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship in 2024.

 

 

Junting Deng received an M.S. degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from The University of Tokyo in 2022 and a B.S. in Communication Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Carnegie Mellon University, with interests in machine learning algorithms, self-healing systems design, and signal processing for wireless applications.

 

 

Chengyu Fan received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2021 and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022, and is working toward the Ph.D. degree in the EECS lab at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in RFIC design with a focus on the application of high frequency communication. He is a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2024.

 

 

Chia Jen Cheng received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include hardware security and energy-efficient IC design.

 

 

 

Jonghyun Kim received his B.S.(admission with honors) and M.S. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. He is currently a Ph.D student in the EECS lab at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include secure RF data converters, low-power fully homomorphic encryption, ADC-DSP based SerDes, and hardware security circuits(TRNG, PUF). (webside)

 

 

Undergraduate Students

 

Korene Tu is a senior pursuing B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include RFIC, circuits, and sensors.

 

 

 

Wahib Abib is currently a senior pursuing a B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in integrated circuit design and low power digital systems.

 

 

 

Brandon Pan is currently a senior pursuing a B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in Digital IC and FPGA design, as well as High-Level Synthesis and Xilinx Hardware.

 

 

 

William Wang is currently a junior pursuing a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is exploring his interests in computer architecture and embedded systems.

 

 

 

Nancy Anderson is a junior pursuing a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with an additional major in Biomedical Engineering. Her interests include analog and digital circuit design and medical device development.

 

 

 

Alumni

Miya Higuchi, currently at Analog Devices Inc.

Mason Xiao, currently at Jane Street

Xinran Yang, currently at UCLA

Nancy Anderson, undergraduate research project

Jinho Yi, currently at CMU CSD

Sarah Yang, undergraduate research project

Dylan Rosser, currently at NXP Semiconductors

Abhinaya Murali, currently at Maxim Integrated

Ryan Quinlan, currently at Draper

Janabelle Wu, undergraduate research project

Weilun Chen, currently at Synopsys

Mengyao Zhao, currently at Micron

Pankaj Kumar, currently at Texas Instruments

Jack J.-C. Hsueh, currently at OSU ESL

Mackenzie Kondas, OSU undergraduate research project

 

 

For Post-Doctoral Scholars

For qualified applicants holding a PhD in the related research field, a postdoctoral appointment is possible. For additional details/questions, please contact Prof. Chen and be sure to provide your CV and a list of references.