Four PhD students from the University of Macau\u2019s (UM) State-Key Laboratory\nof Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMSV) and Faculty of Science and Technology\u2019s Department\nof Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), recently passed their oral\ndefenses with flying colours. Their PhD dissertations, which discuss how to\nsignificantly reduce power consumption and increase the speed of production for\nwireless communication circuits at a lower cost, were praised by the Examination\nCommittee, composed of professors from the University of Pavia in Italy and the\nSouth China University of Technology, for reaching world-class standards. <\/p>
The four PhD students are Yu Weihan, Cheang Chak Fong, Qi Gengzhen, and\nPeng Xingqiang. Yu, Qi and Peng completed their bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and PhD studies\nat UM. Dr Yu and Dr Cheang graduated from Macau Yuet Wah College, and Macau\nInstituto Salesiano, respectively. Both Dr Yu and Dr\nCheang received the Macao Science and\nTechnology Award for Postgraduates from the Science and Technology Development\nFund in 2016. Dr Yu also received the 2017-2018 Predoctoral Achievement Award\nfrom the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). Dr Qi\u2019s PhD work was\npartially developed during his internship in Imec, Belgium. Imec is an\ninternational hub for innovation and R&D activities, particularly in the\nfields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Dr Peng\u2019s family was among the\nvictims of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, when he was just starting his bachelor\u2019s\nstudies at UM. Over the past nine years at UM, he has proven himself capable of\nsolving world-class problems. Two of them have already joined leading chip manufacturers\nin the world, while the other two will continue their research projects.<\/p>
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Their papers\nare titled \u2018Power-Efficient and Wideband WLAN Transmitter Techniques in\nNanoscale CMOS\u2019, \u2018Digital Correction Techniques for I\/Q Mismatch, LO\nFeedthrough and Distortion in Wideband Transmitters\u2019, \u2018SAW-Less Multiband\nTDD\/FDD Transceiver Front-Ends Using Gain-Boosted N-path Techniques\u2019, and\n\u2018Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Transmitter Circuit Techniques for Internet-of-Things\nApplications\u2019, respectively. All the four theses are\nrelated to the hardware development of wireless communication chips for the next-generation\ncellular, Wi-Fi, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) standards. The four\nstudents were supervised by Prof Elvis Mak Pui In, associate director\n(research) of the lab. Cheang, Yu, and Qi were co-supervised by Prof Mak and\nProf Rui Martins, vice rector (research) of UM. Peng was co-supervised by Prof\nMak and Dr Yin Jun, assistant professor from AMSV. The\nfour dissertations together have generated a number of world-class papers,\nincluding three papers in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\n(IEEE) Journal of Solid-State\nCircuits<\/i> (JSSC), six papers in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems <\/i>(TCAS-I\/II), two papers\nand two student previews at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits\nConference (ISSCC), and one paper at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated\nCircuits Symposium (RFIC).<\/p> <\/p>\n \n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four PhD students from the University of Macau\u2019s (UM) State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMSV) and Faculty of Science and Technology\u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n