Prof. Brian Otis

Brian P. Otis joined the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering faculty in the summer of 2005. His research interests include the analysis and design of ultra-low power RF circuits and systems; minimal energy operation of electronics for pervasive computing and communication; MEMS/IC interfaces, and highly integrated electronics for wireless sensors. His M.S. and Ph.D. were completed at U.C. Berkeley at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) where he worked on low power wireless links for Prof. Jan Rabaey's PicoRadio project. He was formerly a researcher in the University of Washington Kelly Tremblay Brain and Behavior Laboratory and the U.C. Berkeley Ralph Freeman Visual Neuroscience Lab. He has previously held industrial positions at Intel Corporation and Agilent Laboratories. More info...

Shailesh Rai - PhD Student

Shailesh S. Rai joined the wireless sensing group in winter 2006. He completed his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York in Summer'05 and joined PhD program at UW. His research interests include low power RF/MEMS front end co-design, mixed signal integrated circuit design and analytical modeling of devices.

Jeremy Holleman - PhD Student

Jeremy Holleman did his undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech. While there he worked in the Neuromorphic Sensorimotor Systems Lab modeling the lamprey central pattern generators in analog VLSI. In 1999 Jeremy moved to Seattle and began work for Data I/O, developing industrial programmers for programmable devices. In 2001 he enrolled in the Electrical Engineering graduate program at the University of Washington. Since then, he has been working with Chris Diorio on low-power analog circuit design with floating-gate transistors. He joined the Wireless Sensing Lab in 2006. His interests include low-power analog VLSI, signal processing, statistical learning techniques, and the application of techniques from these fields to implantable biomedical devices.

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Rob Egbert - PhD Student

Rob has been a member of the Wireless Sensing Lab since the summer of 2006 after beginning his graduate work at UWEE in fall 2005. He completed dual-B.S./B.A. degrees in EE/Korean from Brigham Young University in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he worked as a technology transfer analyst for the US Department of Defense in Washington D.C. Rob has a range of research interests centered on engineering in biology including signal/image processing, nanofabrication for biomolecular sensing, and bioelectrical interfaces. His current research is in biological energy harvesting.

Isaac Abraham- PhD Student

Isaac holds a B.Tech (Electrical & Electronics,1993) from the University of Kerala, India. He completed his MS in EE with focus on VLSI and MEMs from Wright State University, Dayton, OH in 1997. He has since worked at Intel Corporation, where he is currently a component design engineer working on high speed serial interfaces. He is concurrently slogging toward his PhD with a focus on weak/moderately inverted transistors for high speed wireless/IC design.

Steven Zafonte - PhD Student

Steven Zafonte originally came to the UW as a doctoral student in Physics. He is finishing his PhD in Physics, working on the development of an ultra high precision light ion mass spectrometer with Prof. Robert S. Van Dyck (see PTMS lab). He joined the WSL lab in early 2007 where he has branched from his original emphasis on system and instrumentation development to keep with the theme of the low power electronics at the WSL lab (60 GHz CMOS oscillators for next generation wireless tranceivers and automotive radar). He also dabbles in improved LNA architectures for analog and digital communications. His interests have swung from his physics background in high precision and low noise electronics, to his new home in engineering where he explores RF, microwave, medical applications, and anything else that can get out of its own way. His hobbies include metal working, mountaineering, and dancing.

Julie Hu - PhD Student

Julie joined the UW EE program in Fall of 2006. She has focused her study on analog and radio frequency circuit design with special interests in low power RF front end solutions for hand held devices. Her current research area falls in low power gigahertz range CMOS phase-locked loops for a wide range of applications such as GPS receivers and cellular systems. Julie holds Master degrees in semiconductor physics and devices as well as in computer engineering. Prior to her move to Seattle, Julie worked in Agilent in the areas of EDA software development and special purpose digital ICs for instruments.

Apurva Mishra - PhD Student

Apu joined UW EE in September 2005. He holds a BTech degree from IIT Bombay (1998) and an MS from Boston University (2000). His research interests are in low-power mixed-signal design. He is currently working on a neural recording circuit. He has also worked on digital circuits in the past: he worked at Intel from 2000 to 2005 as a design engineer on the Pentium 4 CPU design team, and he worked on a digital silicon cochlea implementation for his MS thesis work. When not in the lab he loves hiking with his dog in the beautiful Northwest outdoors. Contact form.

Ying Su - M.S. Student

I am a second-year M.S. student at UWEE. My specialties in undergrad study were VLSI and analog circuit design. Currently, I am doing research with Professor Brian Otis in analog device area. Ying Su was recently awarded an SRC undergraduate research fellowship.

Dan Yeager Ph.D. Student

Dan joined UW EE in Autumn 2003 as an undergraduate and is now continuing as a Ph.D student. His research interests include low power wireless transceivers and low power analog blocks. Prior to joining the WSL, Dan worked on a programmable UHF RFID sensor tag called WISP at Intel Research Seattle.

Helen Zhang M.S./Ph.D. Student

Helen joined UW EE in Autumn 2007 after completing her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley. She is currently working on low power analog front-end signal processing for neural and Electrocorticography systems.

Yu-Te (Yudo) Liao Ph.D. Student

Yu-Te (Yudo) joined UW EE in September 2006. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 2003, and the M.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Taiwan University, in 2005. His research interests are in the low power RF transceiver and sensor interface circuits for specific applications. His current research focuses on the biomedical telemetry circuit on the contact lens.

Jagdish Pandey Ph.D. Student

Jagdish joined UW and Wireless Sensing Lab in September 2007. He received his B.Tech. and M.Sc. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore respectively in years 2003 and 2007. His research interests are in the area of RF/Analog circuits and Data Converters.

Undergraduate Researchers

Wei-Ting Liao: I.C. Testing Automation

Will Biederman: Passive RF Input Matching

Ryan Ricchiuti: Sub-Hz Integrated Oscillators

Brendan Trimboli: Bird-worn Energy Sources

Alumni

Onur Ozbek: Cypress Semiconductor (M.S.)

Richard Kim: Intel Corporation (M.S.)

Naureen Banani: Intel Corporation (M.S)