Group photo on the day of the commencement ceremony (May 10th, 2024)
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.
Dr. Chen has received the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award. She has 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). She also 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).
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.
Yuyi Shen received the B.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and 2024, respectively. 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.
Graduate Students
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. She is a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award and the Liang Ji-Dian Graduate Fellowship in 2025.
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. He is also a reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). His research interests include secure RF data converters, low-power fully homomorphic encryption, ADC-DSP based SerDes, and hardware security circuits(TRNG, PUF). (webside)
Hyoungjun Kim received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. He worked as a circuit design engineer on the DRAM design team at Samsung Electronics. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the EECS lab at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include computational sensors and energy-efficient circuits.
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Dr. Jiachen Xu, Thesis title: Embedded Machine Learning for Secure and Efficient Circuits and Systems, currently at Apple Inc.
Dr. Yuyi Shen, Thesis title: Self-Healing Power Amplifiers for Wireless Security and Extreme Environments, currently at CMU EECS lab
Korene Tu, undergraduate research project
Wahib Abib, undergraduate research project
Brandon Pan, undergraduate research project
William Wang, undergraduate research project
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.
For Prospective PhD Students
We are actively looking for highly-motivated PhD students. If you are applying to CMU for a PhD in ECE and finding our work interesting, please send Prof. Chen an email along with your CV and transcripts. Prior experience in algorithms or mixed-signal/RF/digital circuit design is preferred, but not necessary. Please include the words “prospective student” in the subject line. Due to high volume of emails, we may not be able to respond to each inquiry.
For BS Students Interested in Research Projects
EECS lab actively engages CMU BS students in research projects. These research projects could be greatly enhance the student’s employment prospects. If you are interested in our research and would like to participate in a research project, please send an email to Prof. Chen with your CV attached. Please also include a list of courses taken at CMU as well as the grades obtained in them.