Current Members

Ji-Hoon Suh

Ji-Hoon received the B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea in 2013. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2016 and 2024, respectively, from the KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. He has previously worked as a researcher for sensor application systems in mechanical engineering (2016- 2018). His current research interests include sensor interface circuits, impedance measurement circuits, data converters for their implantable/biomedical applications.

Alaa Gendia

Alaa Gendia received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. She is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in electrical engineering at California State University, Sacramento, and will be a visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Her research interests include TDMA systems, delta-sigma modulation, and the development of low-power, compact neural recording systems for brain-machine interface applications. Outside of research Alaa enjoys traveling, cooking and hiking with her husband.

Hongyu Lu

Hongyu received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2019. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2021, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. His research interests include low-noise amplifiers, mixers, and phase-locked loops.

Ahmed Gharib

Ahmed Gharib Gadelkarim received the B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He has worked in Si-Vision, Egypt for 5 years in data converters and serial links. He is currently perusing his Ph.D. in electrical and computer at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His research interests focusing on mmWave and RF circuits and data converters.

Mahmoud Hamda

Mahmoud received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Minia University, Egypt. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA. From 2018 to 2021, he worked as a Research Assistant at Cairo University, focusing on power management for energy harvesting systems. His research interests include analog/RF/mixed-signal IC design, power management integrated circuits, and DC-DC converter topologies for energy harvesting systems. In 2021, he was awarded the UCSD Graduate Division Fellowship, and in 2023, he received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. He interned with the PMIC Team at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., CA, USA, during the summer of 2022. In 2023, he joined Apple Inc., CA, USA, for a summer internship, working on designing analog/mixed-signal circuits for the PMU team. In his free time, Mahmoud enjoys reading and traveling.
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Siddharth Agarwal

Research Interests: Neural Interfaces IC Design, Wireless Power Transfer, Power Management

Ryan Burns

Ryan received the BS degree from Case Western Reserve University, OH (2021). Ryan’s research interests broadly lie in low-power analog/mixed-signal circuit techniques for electrochemical and electrophysiological health sensing. Particular interests are sub-nanowatt analog blocks and VCO-based ADCs. Outside of research, Ryan’s personal interests include rabbits and pole vaulting.

Zixiao Lin

Zixiao Lin (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2019, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Macau (UM), Macau, China, in 2022. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electronic circuits and systems with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA. His current research interests include wireless power transfer circuits and systems, power management integrated circuits, switch-capacitors converters, solid-state batteries-based converter and piezoelectric resonator-based dc–dc converters. Outside of research, Zixiao enjoys cooking, road trips, swimming and tennis.

Sumukh Nitundil

Sumukh received his B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2021. From 2021 to 2022, he was a research assistant at IIT Bombay. His current research is investigating process and supply scalable linearization of VCO-based CTDSM ADCs for biomedical sensor front-ends. He was a winner of the IEEE SSCS Student Circuit Contest in 2023. Outside of research, Sumukh enjoys philosophy, music, amateur songwriting and hiking.

Jaeyoung Ko

BS: Hanyang University, MS: KAIST, PhD: UCSD
Research Interests: Power Management IC

Sam Lahti

Sam graduated with his bachelors of electrical engineering at Brigham Young University in 2023 and is pursuing a PhD in the EEMS group at UCSD. His research interests include low power sensing systems with wireless communication and novel power sources for electrical systems. In his free time, Sam enjoys photography, building computers, taking his dog on walks, and traveling with his wife.

Mingjie Ma

BS: University of Alberta, MS: Columbia University, PhD: UCSD
Research Interest : PMIC Design

Dang Le

Dang Le graduated in 2024 with a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include wearable electronics and short to mid range high bandwidth applications. In his free time, Dang enjoys hiking and gaming.

Cheng Tang

Chen received B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 2024. Now he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at University of California, San Diego. His research interests are biomedical analog/mixed signal circuits and power efficient communication circuits. Outside of research, Cheng enjoys music and skiing.

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