Member – integrated Power Electronics and Energy-Efficient Systems Lab

Principal Investigator

Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Education and Training:

Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, 2013
M.S. at KAIST, 2006
B.S. at HUST, Vietnam, 2003

Industry/Academic Experience:

University of Colorado Boulder, CO, 2016-2019
Lion Semiconductor Inc., CA, 2011-2015 (Now Cirrus Logics)
Rambus, Sunnyvale, CA, 2012
Intel, Beaverton, OR, 2009
Oracle, Santa Clara, CA, 2008
JDA Technology and KAIST, KR, 2005-2007
Vietnam Acad. of Sci. and Tech. (VAST), VN, 2002-2004

Current Academic Services

Steering Committee Member, PwrSoC
Associate Editor, JESTPE
Associate Editor, OJ-SSCS

Email: hanhphuc@ucsd.edu

Office Location: Franklin Antonio Hall, Room 2402

Ph.D. Students

Hieu Minh Pham

Education/industry: Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Research Interests: power electronics, analog integrated circuit design, RF power amplifiers, DC-DC supply modulators for Doherty power amplifiers, and power management solutions for thermal electric generators.

Current Project: Envelope/Power Tracking for 5G Doherty Power Amplifier, SC converter, HV GaN.

Hobbies: All kinds of sports, listening to music, reading books

Email: m1pham@ucsd.edu

Po-Han Chen

Education/industry: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Research Interests: fully integrated power management circuits for energy-efficient circuits and solar energy harvesting interface.

Current Project: Integrated power converter with large conversion ratios, HV GaN converter, brain stimulator.

Hobbies: Drawing, badminton, hiking.

Email: poc004@ucsd.edu

Saket Jha

Education/industry: School- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Company- Intel Technologies, Bangalore, India

Research Interests: Integrated Power Electronics, High Frequency Magnetic Component Design, and Analog Circuit design.

Current Project: Heterogenous integration and advanced power converters

Hobbies: Playing and watching Soccer, Tennis.

Email: sajha@ucsd.edu

Hai-Nam Vu

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Education/industry: M.S. School: Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea; B.S. School: Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam; Company: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology, Brussel, Belgium

Research Interests: high-power/density power electronics for motor drive & electric vehicle applications

Current Project: Three-phase inverter for BLDC motor, integrated GaN circuits, hybrid converters.

Hobbies: Soccer, Swim, and Soccer (again)

Email: h2vu@ucsd.edu

Zhiheng Luo

Education: School – Virginia Tech

Research Interests: power electronics, analog integrated circuit design, and analog circuit design methodologies.

Current Project: 3-phase motor drive, brain stimulator.

Hobbies: Bodybuilding and watching movies.

Email: z8luo@ucsd.edu

Zhiwen Gu

Education: B.S. at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
M.S. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: power electronics, switched capacitor converter, circuit topology synthesis

Current Project: switched capacitor converters, hybrid converters

Hobbies: Badminton, jogging, working out

Email: z7gu@ucsd.edu

M.S. Students

Ian Gruber

Education: B.S/MS at UCSD

Research Interests: Analog and mixed-signal IC design, Switched Capacitor Circuits

Current Project: Advanced SC converter

Hobbies: Baseball, rocketry, and video games with friends

Email: igruber@ucsd.edu

Reid Anderson

Education: B.S. from Drexel University, 2015; Current M.S. Student at University of Colorado Boulder

Industry Experience: Power Electronics Engineer at Lockheed Martin; RMSPower Electronics Engineer at InductEV in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; Power Electronics and Controls Engineer at NSWCPD in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Power electronics, power management integrated circuit design, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, resonant power conversion, GaN/SiC

Current Project: Analog/mixed-signal subsystem design for Integrated GaN Driver

Hobbies: Philadelphia Sports (Go birds), Basketball, Piano, Reading Philosophy

Email: rea002@ucsd.edu

Prithvi Shankara

Education/industry: School: B.Sc. from University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Company: Power Integrations Inc., Ottawa, Canada

Education/Industry: Canada

Research Interests: Power Electronics, Analog IC Design, and Semiconductor Devices

Current Project: Hybrid converter

Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Muay Thai

Email: pshankara@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Students

Eamon Lee

Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD

Research Interests: PMIC

Current Project: Integrated power converter for heterogenous integration

Hobbies:

Email: eal005@ucsd.edu

Jason Chow

Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD

Research Interests: Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design

Current Project: TBD

Hobbies: weightlifting, climbing, reading, hiking

Email: j2chow@ucsd.edu

Kibum Kim

Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD

Research Interests: Power Electronics for low-power systems, power converters, Analog IC design

Current Project: TBD

Hobbies: Golf, exercise, games with friends

Email: kik005@ucsd.edu

Visiting Scholars

Alumni

Kris Ngo

Position: UCSD B.S.
Projects: Brain-machine interface
Next destination: BioEE Group @ UCSD

Jacob Lopez

Position: UCSD B.S./M.S.
Projects: High conversion ratio isolated hybrid converter
Next destination: Boeing

Spencer Chang

Position: UCSD B.S./M.S.
Projects: Low-power energy harvesting, digital synthesis flow, brain stimulator.
Next destination: Qualcomm

Tianshi (Roger) Xie

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Position: Ph.D.
Projects: High-Conversion-Ratio Hybrid Converter
Previous place: UT Dallas, Techtronic Industries North America
Next destination: Halo Micro

Tirthasarathi (Tirtho) Lodh

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Position: Ph.D.
Projects: Converters with extremely high conversion ratios for soft robots
Previous place: IIT Bombay, India, and ABB GISPL, India
Next destination: AmberSemi

Ratul Das

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Position: Ph.D.
Projects: Many, including both discrete and integrated efficient hybrid converter for data centers
Previous place: BUET, Energypac
Next destination: EPC