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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

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

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

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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

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

Hobbies: Bodybuilding and watching movies.

Email: z8luo@ucsd.edu

M.S. Students

Undergraduate Students

Ian Gruber

Education: B.S/MS at UCSD

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

Current Project: TBD

Hobbies: Baseball, rocketry, and video games with friends

Email: igruber@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

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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

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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

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

Casey Hardy

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

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

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

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: