This division covers a broad range of topics from the manufacturing of integrated circuits to their applications in real world systems.
Current research includes:
- adaptive circuits
- radio frequency circuits
- hardware security
- VLSI design
- co-packaged photonic circuits for AI acceleration and reconfigurable computing
- acoustic sensing in harsh environments
- microwave device and interconnect modeling
- IC test, and modeling of materials,components and circuits for high-frequency power electronics
- bioelectronics
- energy harvesting circuits
Faculty
Area Chair: Hamed Dalir
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
Energy-Efficient and secure analog/RF/mixed-signal circuits and systems for biomedical and IoT applications; time-domain sensing and sensor interfaces, human body communication, brain-channel communication for untethered neural implants, physical-layer security, low-power wireless and wireline techniques
Honors and Awards
ECE Teaching Excellence Award, 2025
NSF CAREER Award, 2025
Best 3-Minute Thesis Award (Audience Choice), IEEE Microwave Week 2020
Best Paper Awards, IEEE CICC, 2019, CICC 2021, HOST 2018, HOST 2019
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship (2022) and Andrews Fellowship (2017-2019), Purdue University
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
Mid-IR Photonics, On-chip Light Sources, Classical & Quantum Sensors, Ising Machine, AI Accelerator, Photonics Integrated Circuits
Honors And Awards
Stanford–Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Ranking (top 0.3% in field), 2024–2025
ECE Teaching Excellence Award, 2025
Best Project Collaboration Award, TSMC, 2025
ECE Faculty of the Year (Student Choice), 2024–25
Rising Star in Photonics, ACS, 2025
IAAM Scientist Medal & Fellow, 2024
SPIE Senior Member, 2023
AFWERX Commercialization Solutions, 2022
SPIE Community Champion, 2020
IEEE/Optica Senior Member, 2018
JSPS Fellow, 2015
KAKENHI Early Investigator Award, 2014
JSPS Young Scientist Award, 2014
GCOE Golden Award, Tokyo, 2012
Yoshida Foundation Award, 2009
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
IoT for agriculture, mosquito control, health and safety, IoT networking using LoRaWAN and MESH, IC Test, analog/mixed signal design, RF/microwave circuits
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
Hardware security and trust, digital VLSI/CAD, and biometrics
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025
HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2022
2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by DoD, 2019
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, 2017
Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award by Army Research Office (ARO), 2016
George Corcoran Outstanding Teaching Award by University of Maryland, 2008
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
Low-power analog/RF/Mixed-mode ASIC design, miniaturization, wireless powering, electrode design/microfabrication, coil design/fabrication for magnetic stimulation, neural stimulation and recording in animal models, and implant packaging
Honors and Awards
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2024
NIH T32 Fellow, 2019
Ferdinand H. Fellow, 2018
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
High performance data converters, delta-sigma modulators, synthesizable analog to digital converters, biomedical applications
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Semiconductor electronics, manufacturing, measurement and failure analysis, wireless network testing