James Buckwalter received the B.S. degree with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1999, the M.S. degree from UC Santa Barbara in 2001, and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2006. He worked as a research scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) from 1999 through 2001 and at Luxtera in 2006. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the UC San Diego as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2012. His research group is conducted in the area of high-speed integrated circuit design and receives funding from a variety of companies and government agencies. He consults for industrial and legal clients. He serves as a reviewer for a number of IEEE journals including the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II, and Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. From 2007-2009, he was an associate editor of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He also serves on the technical paper review committee of the International Microwave Symposium. He was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2007 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2011.
Joohwa has many years of experience in Analog/RF/Milimeter-wave circuit designs. He was the undergraduate research member in Millimeter Microwave Laboratory at the University of Arizona, where he worked on 5 GHz LNA for WLAN and 3-11 GHz UWB LNA. He joined High-Speed Integrated Circuits Laboratory at UCSD, where he was involved with LEAP/SMART/Elastx DARPA projects. His doctoral study included high-speed analog, RF, and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design for wireless and wired communications. He has held an internship with Oracle, Sun Microsystems Lab, San Diego, where he worked on the high-speed circuits for silicon-based on-chip optical interconnects.
He has authored and co-authored 10 Journal (1st author for 7 papers including 3 JSSC) and 9 conference papers including ISSCC. He received IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award in 2011. He is now with Qualcomm, San Diego.
He serves as a reviewer for a number of journals, including the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS), IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), and IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL).
Arpit has more than 6 years of experience in the area of analog, mixed-signal, RF and millimeter-wave circuit design.
From 2007 to 2009, he was with Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India as a Design Engineer. There, he worked on high-speed serial links, voltage-controlled ring oscillators, ultra-low-noise crystal oscillators, and various power management circuits including LDO regulators and precision bandgap references.
During his doctoral study from 2009 to 2013 at UC, San Diego, he designed and prototyped adaptive millimeter-wave trasmit and receive systems with high level of integration at Q-band and X-band. He was one of the research contributors to DARPA ELASTx program.
He is currently working as post-doctoral researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY and is involved in analog and millimeter-wave circuit design.
Arpit has published in IEEE journals and conferences and has one pending US patent.