Principal Investigator
Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le
Assistant 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
- Chair, IEEE PELS TC2
- Steering Committee Member, PwrSoC
- Associate Editor, JESTPE
Email: hanhphuc@ucsd.edu
Office Location: Franklin Antonio Hall, Room 2402
Postdoc Scholar
Ratul Das
Education/industry: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Company – Energypac Engineering Ltd., Bangladesh
Research Interests: integrated power electronics, pulse generation techniques for high power converters, and gate drivers for switches.
Current Project: Efficient Hybrid Converter for Data Centers
Hobbies: Collecting and solving cubes.
Email: rdas@eng.ucsd.edu
Ph.D. Students
Tianshi (Roger) Xie
Education/industry: The University of Texas at Dallas
Company – Techtronic Industries North America
Research Interests: high-performance power electronics, fully integrated inductor-less power converters with high conversion ratio, and efficient gate driver design for applications from data centers to EVs.
Current Project: High-Conversion-Ratio Hybrid Converter
Hobbies: All kinds of sports, specifically football (soccer), badminton, and tennis.
Email: t4xie@eng.ucsd.edu
Tirthasarathi (Tirtha) Lodh
Education/industry: School – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
Company – ABB GISPL, India
Research Interests: integrated power electronics, Grid-connected, standalone solar PV systems, and converters with extremely high conversion ratios for soft robots.
Current Project: High-Conversion-Ratio Hybrid Converter
Hobbies: Playing cricket and listening to music.
Email: tlodh@eng.ucsd.edu
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
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
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
Hobbies: Soccer, Swim, and Soccer (again)
Email: h2vu@ucsd.edu
M.S. Students
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
Hobbies: Bodybuilding and watching movies.
Email: z8luo@ucsd.edu
Spencer Chang
Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD
Research Interests: integrated power electronics for high end computing, especially on improving converter efficiency.
Current Project: Design Automation, and Energy Harvester IC
Hobbies: I enjoy going out to eat with my friends and watching movies.
Email: sychang@ucsd.edu
Jacob Lopez
Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD
Research Interests: My goal is to learn more about the sub-fields in Power Electronics. I want to learn more about discrete converter design and implementation and how feedback is used to modify converter behavior.
Current Project: High conversion ratio isolated hybrid converter
Hobbies: Playing video games and hanging out with friends.
Email: j3lopez@ucsd.edu
Undergraduate Students
Kai-Wen Cheng
Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD
Research Interests: Converter Design and Controls, Power Management IC
Current Project: DC-DC Buck Converter
Hobbies: Reading, Hiking, Traveling
Email: kac003@ucsd.edu
Kristopher Ngo
Education: Undergraduate student at ECE UCSD
Research Interests: Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design
Current Project: Brain-machine interface
Hobbies: Spending time with friends, cooking, listening to music
Email: kzngo@ucsd.edu
Visiting Scholars
Prof. Hyung-Min Lee
Home University: BASIC (Bio-inspired Advanced Systems and Integrated Circuit) Lab, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Research Interests: Biomedical / sensor / power / display / neuromorphic systems that need miniaturized low-power high-performance IC solutions for efficient and effective sensing, processing, interfacing, and powering.
Email: hyungmin@korea.ac.kr
Office: FAH 2407
Woojoong Jung
Home University: BASIC (Bio-inspired Advanced Systems and Integrated Circuit) Lab, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Research Interests: Power management IC, DC-DC converter
Current Project: Ocean Energy Harvester ICs
Email: w2jung@ucsd.edu
Alumni
Casey Hardy
- Position: Ph.D.
- Project: Integrated Hybrid DC-DC Converters
- Next destination: Blue Cheatah Analog Design
Chenxing (Esther) Qiu
- Position: 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: Tesla
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)
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Yossef (Yossi) Ehrlichman
- Position: CU Boulder Research Associate / Postdoc
- Next Destination: Research Associate at UCSD
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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
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:
Loan Pham-Nguyen
- Position: Visiting Scholar
- Current position: Assistant Professor at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Viet Nam, since 2010
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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: