Principal Investigator

Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
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
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
- Position: Ph.D.
- Projects: High-Conversion-Ratio Hybrid Converter
- Previous place: UT Dallas, Techtronic Industries North America
- Next destination: Monolithic Power Systems: MPS

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

Casey Hardy
- Position: Ph.D.
- Project: Integrated Hybrid DC-DC Converters
- Previous place: SFSU, Apple, Maxim.
- Next destination: NVIDIA

Kai-Wen Cheng
- Position: UCSD undergrad
- Projects: Buck and 3-level converter
- Next destination: EPFL, Switzerland

Chenxing (Esther) Qiu
- Position: UCSD undergrad
- Project: Converter for Energy Harvesting
- Next destination:

Ryan Tran
- Position: UCSD undergrad
- Project: Power converter for motor drive
- Next destination: SpaceX

Jonah Soong
- Position: UCSD computer engineering undergrad
- Project: hardware exploration
- Next destination: software and system

Reilly Jessen
- Position: M.S. student
- Project: Converter with extreme conversion for soft robots
- Next destination: Apple

Gaurav Pawar
- Position: M.S. student
- Project: ITSAB Converter
- Next destination: UCSD M.S. study

Lam Tran
- Position: UCSD undergrad
- Project: Monitor backlight boost converter
- Next destination:

Tai Truong
- Position: UCSD Undergraduate student
- Project: Remote Area Power Supply System
- Next destination:

Manh Truong
- Position: UCSD Undergraduate student
- Next destination:

Phillip Montoya
- Position: CU Boulder Undergraduate student
- Next destination:

Gab-Su Seo
- Position: CU Boulder Research Associate / Postdoc
- Next Destination: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- Google Scholar Profile

Yossef (Yossi) Ehrlichman
- Position: CU Boulder Research Associate / Postdoc
- Next Destination: Research Associate at UCSD
- Google Scholar Profile

Rachit Goel
- Position: CU Boulder M.S. student
- Next destination: Apple

Nikolai Tangdit
- Position: CU Boulder Undergraduate student
- Next destination: AthenaHealth
Former Visiting Scholars/Students

Prof. Hyung-Min Lee
- Associate Professor, directing the BASIC (Bio-inspired Advanced Systems and Integrated Circuit) Lab, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- Google Scholar Profile

Woojoong Jung
- Ph.D. student from theBASIC (Bio-inspired Advanced Systems and Integrated Circuit) Lab, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Next destination: Samsung
- Google Scholar Profile

Miquel Ricart Oltra
- Position: Visiting undergraduate student from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- Next destination:

Ashwini Wankhede
- Position: Visiting undergraduate student from IIT Kharagpur
- Next destination:

Prof. Loan Pham-Nguyen
- Associate Professor, directing the BKIC Design Lab at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Viet Nam, since 2010
- Google Scholar Profile

Manh Nguyen-Duc
- Position: Visiting student
- Current position: Engineer at Qorvo/Active-Semi

Quyet Nguyen-Van
- Position: Visiting student
- Current position:

Hoang Nguyen-Kim
- Position: Visiting student
- Current position: Ph.D. Student at KAIST