Harish Krishnaswamy received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Columbia High-Speed and Millimeter-Wave IC Laboratory (CoSMIC).
Dr. Krishnaswamy was a recipient of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper in 2007, the Best Thesis in Experimental Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award in 2011, the 2014 IBM Faculty Award, the Best Demo Award at the 2017 IEEE ISSCC, and Best Student Paper Awards (First Place) at the 2015 and 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium . He has been a member of the technical program committee of several conferences, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference since 2015 and the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium since 2013. He currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and as a member of the DARPA Microelectronics Exploratory Council.
In 2017, he co-founded MixComm Inc., a venture-backed startup, to commercialize CoSMIC Laboratory’s advanced wireless research. His current research interests include integrated devices, circuits, and systems for a variety of RF, mmWave, and sub-mmWave applications.
inxiao Zhang graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He interned at the Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, for five months in 2009. In Summer 2012, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy’s research group as a PhD-track student. He graduated with his PhD in 2017, which focused on architectures and integrated circuits for RF MIMO transceivers and systems.
Thesis Title: RF/Analog Spatial Equalization for Integrated Digital MIMO Receivers
Current Position: IC Design Engineer, Broadcom Corporation
Awards and Honors: Columbia EE 2013 MS Award of Excellence
Jahnavi Sharma graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in May 2009. She graduated with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2017. In the summer of 2007, she did a three-month internship at the Microelectronics Center of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with the late Dr. Shantiram Kal. Her PhD thesis at CoSMIC lab was focused on high power and/or high-fidelity signal generation and synthesis from RF to optical frequencies. Jahnavi received the 2015-2016 IBM PhD Fellowship and was selected as a 2016 MIT-CMU EECS Rising Star.
Thesis Title: CMOS Signal Synthesizers for Emerging RF-to-Optical Applications
Current Position: Designer at Intel Corporation
Awards and Honors: 2015-2016 IBM PhD Fellowship, 2016 MIT-CMU EECS Rising Star
Ritesh A. Bhat graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He interned at Texas Instruments, Bangalore under Dr. K Radhakrishna Rao for a period of two and half months in summer 2009. In Spring 2011, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy’s research group as a PhD-track student. He graduated with his PhD in 2017. His PhD research focused on efficient, high-power precision RF and mmWave digital transmitter architectures.
Thesis Title: Efficient, High-Power Precision RF and mmWave Digital Transmitter Architectures
Current Position: Research Scientist, Intel Research, Hillsboro, OR
Awards and Honors: Columbia EE 2012 MS Award of Excellence
Tsung-Hao (Jeffrey) Chuang graduated from National Taiwan University in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He received the NTU EE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award and the Lam Research Award in 2010. In August 2011, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy’s research group as a PhD-track student. He graduated with his PhD in Summer 2017.
Thesis Title: High-performance Local Oscillator Design for Next Generation Wireless Communication
Current Position: To join Apple, Cupertino, CA
Awards and Honors: Fall 2016 EGSC Professional Development Scholarship, 2015 Columbia EE Jacob Millman Prize for Excellence in Teaching Assistance
Tolga Dinc received his B.S. and M.S. in Electronics Engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul in June 2010 and 2012, respectively. In the summer of 2009 and 2010, he held internship positions with IHP Microelectronics, Germany. He was a recepient of 2010 Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship Award. In August 2012, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy’s research group as a PhD-track student. He graduated with his PhD in September 2017.
Thesis Title: Architectures, Antennas and Circuits for Millimeter-wave Wireless Full-Duplex Applications
Current Position: RF/mmWave Engineer, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments
Awards and Honors: 2017 Columbia EE Jury Award, 2016 Columbia EE Jacob Millman Prize for Excellence in Teaching Assistance, 2016 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship, 2015 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award – 1st Place
I am an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of EECS. My research interests span integrated circuits and systems, applied electromagnetics and nanophotonics, with a focus on theory, design and experimental validation of analog, radio-frequency (RF), millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) and optical integrated circuits, metamaterials and systems for a variety of applications such as emerging wireless communications paradigms, Internet of Things (IoT), imaging, sensing and opto/bio-electronics.
I got my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. I have received my Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree from Columbia University in May 2017 and my M.Sc. and B.Sc. Degrees in Microelectronic Circuits and Telecommunications from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013 and 2011.
Anandaroop Chakrabarti graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering. He spent the summer of 2009 at the University of Utah on a three-month internship under Dr. Richard Brown, Dean of Engineering. He joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy’s research group in August 2010 as a PhD-track student. He graduated with his PhD in early 2016.
In summer 2013, he was with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, on a three-month internship. His research interests include mmWave and RF circuits and systems in silicon, massive mmWave multi-input- multi-output (MIMO) systems and related applications.
Thesis Title: Architectures and Integrated Circuits for Efficient, High-power “Digital” Transmitters for Millimeter-wave Applications
Current Position: Research Scientist, Intel Research Labs
Awards and Honors: 2015 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award – 1st Place, 2014 Bell Labs Prize Finalist, 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2013 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship
