All MICS seminars will be held for 2:30- 3:30 PM on Fridays in Whittemore 654, unless stated otherwise.
- November 15, 2019 - "Portable/Wearable Sensors for Human Body Monitoring," Dr. Daniel Slim (Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory)
- December 8, 2017 - "System Software for Many and Specialized Core Era," Dr. Changwoo Min (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- December 1, 2017 - "Neural Encoding: Methodology and Design." Chenyuan Zhao (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- November 10, 2017 - "Energy Efferent 3D Memristor-based Neuromorphic IC with Programmable Attention Mechanism." Hongyu An (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- November 3, 2017 - "Energy Harvesting from Automobiles," Ji Hoon Hyun (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 13, 2017 - "Studying Scalability of Thermal-Resilient Hybrid Photonic-Electronic Networks-on-Chip," Keyvan Ramezanpour (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 6, 2017 - "Exploring Approximate Storage for Data-Intensive Compute-in-Memory Accelerators," Brian Worek (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- September 29, 2017 - "If I Could Become a Graduate Student Again," Dr. Dong S. Ha (Professor and MICS Director, Virginia Tech)
- September 15, 2017 - "Building Brain-inspired Computing Small, Cool, and Robust: Novel Paradigms for Analog Neuromorphic Circuit Design," Dr. Yang (Cindy) Yi (Professor, Virginia Tech)
- February 24, 2017 - "Primer for High-Speed Serial IO Equalization," David Sanderson (Intel)
- October 2, 2015 - "2-4 GHz Q-Tunable LC Bandpass Filter with 172-dB∙Hz Peak Dynamic Range, Resilient to +15-dBm Out-of-Band Blocker," Daniel Herrera (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- September 25, 2015 - "Impact of the Front Metal Layout on the Fill Factor of GaSb-based Photovoltaics Grown on n-type Substrate," Laya Mohammadi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 27, 2015 - "Boost Converter Design for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from Body Heat," Quinn Brogan (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 17, 2015 - "Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of GaSb-based Thermo-Photovoltaics," Daniel Herrera (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 10, 2015 - "High Temperature Design Considerations for RF," Michael Cunningham (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 3, 2015 - "Harvesting Ambient Energy from Trains," Thomas O'Connor (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 27, 2015 - "Improving the Efficiency of Power Amplifiers," Sicong Hua (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 20, 2015 - "High Temperature Downhole Communication," Jebreel Salem (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- February 27, 2015 - "Introduction to Volterra Series," MohammadReza Zargarzadeh (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- February 13, 2015 - "Introduction to CDR Circuit for Optical Communication," Joseph Chong (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- December 5, 2014 - "On the Physical Layer Security of Backscatter Wireless Systems," Walid Saad (VT ECE faculty)
- November 7, 2014 - "Recent Developments of Terahertz Mixers and Analyzers at Virginia Diodes," Dr. Jeffrey L. Hesler (Virginia Diode)
- October 31, 2014 - "Power Amplifiers (PA)," Seyed Yahya Mortazavi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 17, 2014 - "Fundamentals of Self-Powered Heterogeneous Cellular Networks," Prof. Harpreet Dhillon (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 3, 2014 - "A 3.25GHz Sampling Rate Charge Domain Coefficient Adjustable 4-Tap Analog FIR Filter," Shinwoong Park (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- September 26, 2014 - "Analog Integrated Circuit Design - a Lifetime Career," Mr. Eric Young (Design Manager of Power Products, Linear Technology)
- September 12, 2014 - "Analysis of Different Topology of Transformer Feedback LNA," Sadia Afroz (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- September 5, 2014 - "Quantum Dot Laser Diodes and Mode-Locking," Dr. Luke. F. Lester (Professor and ECE Department Head, Virginia Tech)
- May 21, 2014 - "From Founding to Post-IPO: One Perspective on Technology Entrepreneurship and Fabless Design," Curtis Ling (Chief Technology Officer, MaxLinear)
- April 25, 2014 - "RF FIR Filter in Mullimeter - wave Range," Hyunchul Kim (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 18, 2014 - "Time Interleaving Mixer," Hedieh Elyasi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- April 4, 2014 - "Injection locked oscillator," Dongseok Shin (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 28, 2014 - "A Tunable Frequency & Bandwidth RF and Microwave filter," Laya Mohammadi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 7, 2014 - "Overview of the state of the art in interference and transmitter leakage rejection," Farooq Amin (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- February 28, 2014 - "Lithium Ion Fuel Gauges for a Streetlight-Mounted Camera," Ross Kerley (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- February 7, 2014 - "A 100 Gb/s CMOS transimpedance amplifier for high speed optical communication receivers," Joseph Chong (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- January 31, 2014 - "A Class-F-1/F 24-31GHz Power Amplifier with 40.7% peak PAE, 15dBm OP-1dB, and 50mW Psat in 0.13µm SiGe BiCMOS," Yahya Mortazavi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 8, 2013 - "RFIC's: A Silent Enabler of Everyday Life," Scott D. Marshall (Freescale)
- October 4, 2013 - "Optical injection in semiconductor lasers for RF signal generation," Dr. Antonio Hurtado (University of New Mexico)
- September 27, 2013 - "Challenges in High-Temperature Embedded Systems Design," Dr.Thanh Tran (Halliburton); "Challenges in Measurement while Drillling," Imran Vehra (Sperry Drilling Technology, Halliburton)
- May 3, 2013 - "Probing the Dynamics of Biomolecules in Living Environment by Terahertz Spectroscooy," Dr. Vinh Q. Nguyen (Physics, Virginia Tech)
- April 12, 2013 - "What is going on around us? a MEMS perspective," Dr. Masoud Agah (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 22, 2013 - "Where is Spectrum Sharing Headed?" Dr. Jeef H. Reed (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- March 1, 2013 - "Extremely High Mobility CMOS Logic," Dr. Mantu K. Hudait (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- February 15, 2013 - "Reconfigurable Switched Antenna for Multi-band Applications," Mohsen Salehi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- November 30, 2012 - "3D Micromachined Passive Components and Active Circuit Integration for Millimeter-wave Radar," Marcus Oliver (Nuvotronics)
- November 16, 2012 - "Toward Wideband Vibration Energy Harvesting," Dong Ha (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- November 2, 2012 - "Low Cost Phased Array," Majid Manteghi (ECE, Virginia Tech)
- October 19, 2012 - "Integrated Phased Arry Designs," Kwang-Jin Koh (ECE, Virginia Tech)