Four PhD students and one assistant professor from the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMS-VLSI Lab) and Faculty of Science and Technology attended the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’s (IEEE) 62nd International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), which is considered the ‘Chip Olympics’, the most competitive conference in the field of chip design. The UM team presented their latest research results on data conversion, wireless reception, power management, and biomedical chips. Two of the PhD students received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award.


More than 3,000 representatives from the academia and industry attended this year’s ISSCC, which was held in San Francisco, United States. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Silicon Systems — Small Chips for Big Data’. The UM team presented four regular papers and two posters at the Student Research Preview session. UM and HKUST are the only two universities from China whose papers were accepted at this year’s ISSCC. In addition, UM PhD students Chan Chi-Hang and Lin Zhicheng received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award. UM, the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and KU Leuven, are the only four universities with two winners of this award.  


It is also the first time that a member of the UM team, Prof Ben U, was invited to chair a conference session, ‘Nyquist Rate Converters’, as a member of the Technical Programme Committee of the ISSCC, together with Prof Hae-seung Lee from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


In his overview seminal presentation titled ‘Analog CMOS from 5 Micrometer to 5 Nanometer’, Plenary Talk session speaker Willy Sansen, who is a professor emeritus from the prestigious Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium, and an internationally recognised authority on analog chip design, cited two papers about CMOS amplifiers from the AMS-VLSI Lab, which raised the visibility of UM and Macao. 


PhD students Chan Chi-Hang and Zhong Jianyu are co-supervised by Prof U Seng Pan, Dr Sin Sai Weng, and Dr Zhu Yan. PhD students Lin Zhicheng and Lei Ka-Meng are co-supervised by Chair Professor Rui Martins, Prof Elvis Mak Pui In, and Dr Law Man Kay.


The award and the international recognition are testament to the high quality of the research results achieved by UM’s students and faculty members in the highly competitive field of electronics.




Source: Communications Office

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