Cooperative Analog and Digital Signal Processing : Georgia Institute of Technology  
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ICE :: advisor

Dr. Jennifer O. Hasler
phasler [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Dr. Hasler's current research interests include low power electronics, the use of floating-gate MOS transistors to build adaptive information processing systems, and "smart" interfaces for sensors, including chemical, acoustical, and micromachined sensors; merging digital and analog signal processing on single integrated circuits; device physics related to submicron devices or floating-gate devices; and analog VLSI models of on-chip learning and sensory processing in neurobiology. When he arrived at Georgia Tech, Dr. Hasler started the Integrated Computational Electronics (ICE) laboratory, currently a part of the Laboratories for Neural Engineering. Currently, this laboratory is composed of 18 graduate students, as well as three undergraduate students. This research program has received several awards: the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2002), the NSF CAREER Award (2001), a Best Paper Award at SCI 2001, and a Finalist for the Packard Young Investigator Award (1999). In its short existence, the ICE lab has been the primary source of over 52 refereed conference publications, one book, numerous book chapters, 14 published or accepted journal papers, 14 patent applications, and 4 journal papers in review. In addition, under preparation are eight journal papers (based upon current submitted conference papers), as well as several patent disclosures to be submitted in the next two months. Dr. Hasler's research laboratory is currently funded through a combination of industrial funding sources and collaborative projects. His current students are supported through a mixture of funding, including three NSF research grants (one is a NSF CAREER award), one ONR grant (a Young Investigator Award), two DARPA grants, fellowships (e.g. GEM), industrial support (Texas Instruments (TI), Motorola, Second Sight, Rstream), and internal support (Yamacraw).

ICE :: students

David Abramson
abramson [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Dave Abramson obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering here at Georgia Tech. He is currently a Ph.D. student.
Brian Degnan
degs [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Brian Degnan received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, as well a research certificate from Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan. He led a start-up company to an exit by buyout from a Japanese firm before caving to the lusts of academia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
Christal Gordon
cgordon [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Christal Gordon is a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ms. Gordon received a dual Electrical and Computer Engineering B.S. from Polytechnic University in 1999 and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. She will complete her Ph. D. work in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology this August. Her interests revolve around creating bio-inspired systems for use by the general public, engineers, and neuroscientists. Applications of these bio-inspired systems include efficient consumer electronics, neural processors, and cochlear implants.
David Graham
dgraham [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo David W. Graham received the B.A. degree in Natural Science from Covenant College, Lookout Mtn., GA in 2001. He also received both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrial Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research interests include analog circuits for audio signal processing and silicon models of the human cochlea.
Kofi Odame
odame [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Kofi Odame received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interest is in the application of dynamical systems theory to the design and analysis of novel analog circuit topologies.
Erhan Ozalevli
ozalevli [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Erhan Ozalevli was born in Adana, Turkey, in 1979. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, in 2003. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include Floating-Gate CMOS resistors and their applications, and data converters for embedded systems.
Sheng-Yu (Thomas) Peng
sypeng [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Sheng-Yu Peng received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, in 1995 and 1997 respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he served in Navy as an ensign officer in Kao-Hsiung. After working as a research assistant in a government research institute in Taiwan for two years, he went to Cornell University studying mixed-Signal, analog, and digital VLSI design and receive a M. Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interest is in low-power analog signal processing, analog neural networks and support vector machine, floating-gate transistor circuit design.
Ryan Robucci
rrobucci [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Ryan Robucci recieved a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently persuing a Ph.D. here at Georgia Tech studying analog and digital IC design for signal sensing and processing with concentration in imaging applications.
Gail Rosen :: personal webpage
gailr [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Gail Rosen received both a B.S. (highest honors) and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 1997 to 1998, she was an associate electrical engineer in the digital video systems at Scientific-Atlanta Inc. In the summer of 2000, she worked at AT&T Research Laboratories in the audio signal processing department, and in the summer of 2004, she worked at MIT Lincoln Labs biodefense department. Her main research interests are reverse-engineering biological systems and analyzing DNA structure, mutations, and repair.
Guillermo Serrano
gserrano [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Guillermo Serrano received his B.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, in 2001. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He is currently attaining a Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interest include floating-gate MOS transistors, and analog-digital signal processing.
Venkatesh Srinivasan
vsriniva [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Venkatesh Srinivasan received his B.E (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1999. From 1999-2000, he worked as a design engineer at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India where he was involved in the design of the analog physical layer of the IEEE-1394 standard. In 2002, he graduated with an M.S in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. His research interests include data converters, PLLs, low-power analog signal processing and floating-gate MOS transistors.
Christopher Twigg
ctwigg [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Christopher M. Twigg received a BSEE and a BSCPE from West Virginia University in 2000 and an MSECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include reconfigurable and programmable mixed-signal systems, cooperative analog / digital signal processing, floating-gate circuits, and neuromorphic designs.

ICE :: alumni

Dr. Abhishek Bandyopadhyay
abandyo [at] ece.gatech.edu
photo Abhishek Bandyopadhyay received his B. Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1999. He received his M.S. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 2001. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He is currently a design engineer at Analog Devices, Wilmington. His research interests include single-chip low power imager processors, current mode ADCs and DACs, floating-gate MOS transistors, LCD drivers, charge pump circuits, and biosensors.