Integrated circuits faculty

Aberle’s research interests include antennas, signal and power integrity, and RF systems for wireless communication modeling of complex electromagnetic phenomena.

Allee associate director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and is a member of the National Academy of Inventors.

Bakkaloglu’s areas of expertise includes RF and mixed-signal IC design wireless and wireline communication circuits and systems broadband communication Ics and systems.

Barnaby’s research interests include semiconductors for hostile environments, device physics and modeling, microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing, and analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design.

Blain Christen’s research includes bio-compatible integration techniques for CMOS electronics; microfluidics, non-traditional microfabrication; MEMS devices/bio-MEMS; bioelectronics focused on analog and neuromorphic design.

Umberto Celano’s research interests lie at the intersection of condensed matter physics, semiconductor technology, and materials analysis, with a focus on nanoelectronics.

Chakrabarti’s areas of expertise include low power embedded system design, reliable memory design, VLSI architectures for signal processing and communications, and algorithm-architecture codesign.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty is the Fulton Professor of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University.

Vidya A. Chhabria is an assistant professor in ECEE at Arizona State University. Her research interests lie in CAD for VLSI systems around physical design, optimization, and analysis algorithms.

Fan’s research interests include efficient AI hardware and algorithm, digital chip design, in-memory computing circuits and architecture, adversarial and trustworthy AI system.

Dr. Gu received his Ph.D. degrees, under the supervision of Prof. David Z. Pan and Prof. Ray T. Chen, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2023. He has broad research interests spanning from emerging hardware design for efficient computing (photonics, post-CMOS electronics, quantum), hardware-algorithm co-design, efficient AI/ML algorithms, and electronic-photonic design automation.Dr. Gu has authored 80+ peer-reviewed international journal/conference papers in above area. He has received Best Paper Award at ASP-DAC 2020, selected as one out of 6 Best Paper Finalists at DAC 2020, won First Place at the ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition (SRC) held…

Leslie Hwang is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. She joined ASU after working at Synopsys as a senior research and development engineer, where she worked on the machine learning team for the company’s IC Validator, which verifies correctness and manufacturability of semiconductor chip designs. Hwang’s awards include an Intel computer engineering fellowship and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her expertise is in applied machine learning for physical design in electronics and advanced semiconductor packaging.

Kiaei is the director of the Connection One Center (NSF I/UCRC Center) and Motorola Chair in Analog and RF Integrated Circuits.

Kitchen’s research focuses on improvements in efficiency and power management for high-frequency circuits and systems.

Kozicki develops new materials, processes, and devices in applications ranging from information storage to supply chain security.

Kexin (Kathy) Li is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022 and joined ASU after working as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. Kexin’s research focuses on understanding and modeling the physical behavior of emerging nanoscale electronic materials and devices, to enable new system-level functionalities for high-power and high-frequency applications. Her current work involves building a framework for technology-circuit and device-circuit co-design, which requires expertise in nanoelectronics, semiconductor device physics, and circuit design. Kexin has collaborated extensively with…

Ozev has worked on testing mixed-signal and radiofrequency circuits, built-in-self test techniques, analysis and mitigation of process variations, defect-tolerant microprocessor systems and testing of microfluidic devices.

Phillips joined ASU as Professor 2002- and served as director of the school 2010-2024. Board of Directors of IEEE & ABET. Phillips’ expertise spans MEMS, controls and novel delivery of accredited degree programs.

Arindam Sanyal is currently an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at University at Buffalo SUNY. He was an analog design engineer with Silicon Laboratories between 2015-2016. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, his M.Tech from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2009 and B.E from Jadavpur University, India in 2007. His research expertise includes analog/mixed signal integrated circuits design and machine learning.

Shandhi is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering and Biodesign Institute Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at ASU.

Trichopoulos is co-founder of TeraProbes Inc., a technology start-up company specializing in non-contact device and circuit measurements.

Wang aims to bridge the nanoscience and biotechnology in research. His primary research interests have been in nanofabrication, 3D printing, nanophotonics, nanopores, and personalized infectious disease diagnostics.

Zhang’s research expertise spans deep learning, computer architecture, embedded systems and VLSI design automation.