SiGe Devices and Circuits Group, 2021
Students (Left to Right): (back) Sunil, Yaw, Zack, Nelson, Chris, Delli, Mozhgan, Mike, Milad, Sanghoon, Jeff, Arya, (front) Hari, Dr. Cressler, Brett, Evan, Justin, George, Wonsub, Harrison, Jackson
Current Students and Degree
Brett Ringel, PhD
Delli Nergui, PhD
Edgar Garay, PhD
Harrison Lee, PhD
Nelson Sepulveda, PhD
Chris Snyder, MS
Yaw Mensah, MS
Wonsub Lim, MS
Justin Heimerl, MS
Jackson Moody, MS
Mozhgan Hosseinzadeh, MS
Zack Brumbach, MS
Peter Francis, MS
Delwyn Sam, MS
Student Award and Accomplishments
- Best Paper Award, A. Ildefonso, Z.E. Fleetwood, G.N. Tzintzarov, J.M. Hales, M. Frounchi, A. Khachatrian, D. McMorrow, J.H. Warner, J. Harms, A. Erickson, and J.D. Cressler, "Optimizing Optical Parameters to Facilitate Correlation of Laser- and Heavy-Ion-Induced Single-Event Transients in SiGe HBTs," 2018 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, paper H-3, 2018.
- Best Student Paper Award, Nelson Lourenco, Z. Fleetwood, S. Jung, A. Cardoso, P. Chakraborty, T. England, N. Roche, A. Khachatrian, D. McMorrow, S. Buchner, J. Melinger, J. Warner, P. Paki, M. Kaynak, B. Tillack, and J. D. Cressler, "On the Transient Response of a Complementary (npn + pnp) SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology," 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), July 13-18 in Paris, France
- Best Student Paper Award, U. Raghunathan, P. Chakraborty, B. Wier, J. D. Cressler, H. Yasuda, and P. Menz, "TCAD Modeling of Accumulated Damage During Time-Dependent Mixed-Mode Stress," Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 179-182, 2013.
- P. Song was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, 2012.
- Best Student Paper Award, P.K. Saha, D. Howard, S. Shankar and J.D. Cressler, An Adaptive, Wideband SiGe Image Reject Mixer for a Self-healing Receiver, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 98-101, 2011.
- C. Coen was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, 2011.
- S. Phillips was awarded the 2011 Phelps Award by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, 2011.
- S. Seth was awarded the 2011 Sam Nunn Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2011.
- M. Oakley was awarded a Georgia Tech ECE Outstanding GTA Award, 2011.
- Best Student Paper Award, A. Madan, J.D. Cressler, and A.J. Joseph, A High-Linearity Inverse-Mode SiGe BiCMOS RF Switch, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 61-64, 2010.
- Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh was awarded the IEEE-CAS 2010 Pre-doctoral Scholarship Award, 6/10
- Eleazar Kenyon was awarded a 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 5/10
- Kurt Moen was awarded a Semiconductor Research Corporation GRC Graduate Fellowship, 4/10
- Tushar Thrivikraman was awarded the 2009 Georgia Tech STEP Fellowship, 4/09.
- Peng Cheng was awarded the 2009 Sam Nunn Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 4/09.
- Jiahui Yuan was awarded a 2008 IEEE Electron Devices Society Ph.D. Fellowship Award, 7/08.
- Best Student Paper, A. Madan, J.D. Cressler, and S. Koester, “Low-Frequency Noise in Buried Channel SiGe n-MODFETs,” Proceedings of the 4th International SiGe Technology and Devices Meeting (ISTDM), pp. 60-61, 2008.
- Stephen Horst was awarded the 2008 Sam Nunn Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 4/08.
- Best Student Paper, J.P. Comeau, M.A. Morton, W.-M.L. Kuo, T. Thrivikraman, J.M. Andrews, C.M. Grens, J.D. Cressler, J. Papapolymerou, and M. Mitchell, “A Monolithic 5-Bit SiGe BiCMOS Receiver for X-Band Phased-Array Radar Systems,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 172-175, 2007.
- Laleh Najafizadeh was awarded the 2007/08 Texas Instruments’ Women’s Leadership Fellowship, 8/07.
- Marco Bellini was awarded the 2007 Donofrio Fellowship, 8/07.
- Anuj Madan was awarded a 2007 IEEE Electron Devices Society M.S. Fellowship Award, 7/07.
- Tushar Thrivikraman was awarded the 2007 Sam Nunn Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 4/07.
- Akil Sutton was awarded the 2007 FOCUS-IBM Fellowship, which includes a $10,000 salary stipend, and an intern
position at IBM Research, 1/07. - Akil Sutton was awarded the 2004 Phelps Award by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, 7/04.
- Ying Li was awarded the 2002 Phelps Award by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, 7/02.
- Best Student Paper, S. Salmon, J.D. Cressler, R.C. Jaeger, and D.L. Harame, “The Impact of Ge Profile Shape on the Operation of SiGe HBT Precision Voltage References,” Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 100-103, 1997.
- Best Student Paper, D.M. Richey and J.D. Cressler, "Scaling Issues and Ge Profile Optimization in Advanced
UHV/CVD SiGe HBTs,” Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp.
19-22, 1996. - Best Student Paper, L.S. Vempati, J.D. Cressler, R.C. Jaeger, and D.L. Harame, "Low Frequency Noise in
UHV/CVD Si- and SiGe-base Bipolar Transistors," Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and
Technology Meeting, pp. 125-128, 1995. - S. Zhang was awarded the 2001 Phelps Award by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, 7/01.
- D.C. Sheridan was selected as one of the Top 10 Auburn University PhD students for the 1999/00 year.
- A.J. Joseph was selected as one of the Top 10 Auburn University PhD students for the 1996/97 year.
- D.M. Richey received the 1996 Carolyn Taylor Carr Outstanding Research Award from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
- D.M. Richey and A.J. Joseph were inducted into Sigma Xi, the National Scientific Research Honor Society.
Former Students and Degree
| PhD | Masters |
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David Richey, 96 |
Lakshmi Vempati, 95 |
Alvin Joseph, 96 |
Greg Bradford, 96 |
Bill Ansley, 98 |
Kartik Jayanarayanan, 97 |
Suraj Mathew, 99 |
Juan Roldan, 98 |
David Sheridan, 00 |
Stacey Salmon, 98 |
Gang Zhang, 02 |
Usha Gogineni, 99 |
Shiming Zhang, 02 |
Gaurab Banerjee, 99 |
Ying Li, 04 |
Krish Shivaram, 99 |
Zhiyun Luo, 04 |
Shiming Zhang, 99 |
Zhenrong Jin, 04 |
Ramkumar Krithivasan, 02 |
QingQing Liang, 05 |
Akil Sutton, 05 |
Tianbing Chen, 06 |
Becca Haugerud, 05 |
Amit Bavisi (co-advised), 06 |
Mustayeen Nayeem, 05 |
Enhai Zhao, 06 |
Adnan Ahmed 05 |
Jon Comeau, 06 |
Curtis Grens, 05 |
Lance Kuo, 06 |
Mustansir Pratapgarhwala, 05 |
Ramkumar Krithivasan, 07 |
Jiahui Yuan, 07 |
Chendong Zhu, 07 |
Tom Cheng, 07 |
Yuan Lu, 07 |
Tushar Thrivikraman, 07 |
Bhaskar Banerjee (co-advised), 07 |
Steven Finn, 08 |
Xiangtao Li, 08 |
Anuj Madan, 08 |
Joel Andrews, 09 |
Nand Jha, 08 |
Marco Bellini, 09 |
Kurt Moen, 08 |
Curtis Grens, 09 |
Ryan Diestelhorst, 09 |
Akil Sutton, 09 |
Stan Phillips, 09 |
Aravind Appasamy, 09 |
Sachin Seth, 09 |
Laleh Najafizadeh, 09 |
John Poh, 09 |
Jiahui Yuan, 10 |
Dylan Thomas, 10 |
Tom Cheng, 10 |
Ted Wilcox, 10 |
Tushar Thrivikraman, 10 |
Subu Shankar, 10 |
Anuj Madan, 11 |
Troy England, 11 |
John Poh, 11 |
Richie Mills, 11 |
Steve Horst, 11 |
Adilson Cardoso, 12 |
Kurt Moen, 12 |
Rob Schimd, 12 |
Sachin Seth, 12 |
Eleazar Kenyon, 12 |
Rajan Arora, 12 |
Chris Coen, 12 |
Stan Phillips, 12 |
Nelson Lourenco, 12 |
Subu Shankar, 13 |
Zach Fleetwood, 14 |
Prabir Saha, 13 |
Uppili Raghunathan, 14 |
Ryan Diestelhorst, 13 |
Brian Wier, 15 |
Duane Howard, 14 |
Anup Omprakash, 16 |
Troy England, 14 |
Adrian Ildefonso, 17 |
Farzad Inanlou, 14 |
Mason Wachter, 17 |
Adilson Cardoso, 15 |
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Rob Schmid, PhD, 15 |
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Partha Chakraborty, 15 |
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Seungwoo Jung, 15 |
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Nelson Lourenco, 16 |
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Michael Oakley, 16 |
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Ickhyun Song, 16 |
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Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, 17 |
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Zach Fleetwood, 18 |
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Brian Wier, 18 |
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Inchan Ju, 18 |
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Uppili Raghunathan, 18 |
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Anup Omprakash, 18 |
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Adrian Ildefonso, 20 |
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Yunyi Gong, 20 |
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Victor Ying, 21 |
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Cliff Cheon, 21 |
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Milad Frounchi, 21 |
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Patrick Goley, 22 |
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George Tzintzarov, 22 |
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Sunil Rao, 22 |
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Jeff Teng, 23 |
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Sanghoon Lee, 23 |
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Arya Moradinia, 23 |
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Mike Lee, 23 |
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Guofu Niu, 97-00
Rao Rapeta, 00
Emery Chen, 02-03
Jongsoo Lee, 03-04
Gnana Prakash, 04-06
Bongim Jun, 05-07
Lance Kuo, 07-08
Laleh Najafizadeh, 09-10
Cagri Ulusoy, 12-15
Moon-Kyu Cho, 15-Present
Ickhyun Song, 17-18
Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, 17-18
Visitors
Geunho Lee, 00-01
Jeiyoung Lee, 00-01
Jarle Johansen, 02-03
Seung-Yun Lee, 03-04
José-Luis Olvera Cervantes, 06
Jiongjiong Mo, 08
Rao Rapeta, 08
Choon Sik Cho, 10-11
Jongsoo Lee, 11-12
Donh-Pil Chang, 11-12
Undergraduate Students
Todd Hoffenberg, 02
Mustayeen Nayeem, 02-03
Curtis Grens, 02-03
Ragad Al-Huq, 02-03
Akil Sutton, 02-03
Adnan Ahmed, 03
Ming Teng Han, 03
Man-Chun Lam, 04-05
Ryan Diestelhorst, 04-06
Gustavo Espinel, 04-06
Steven Finn, 05-06
Greg Duperon III, 06
Ted Wilcox, 06-07
Craig Johnson, 06-07
Jessica Nance, 07
Adilson Cardoso, 08
Rohan Verma, 09
Brian Lieblick, 09
Chris Coen, 08-09
Nelson Lourenco, 09
Azar Kenyon, 09
Joe Gonzalez, 10
Shaleen Jain, 10-12
Chadim Chatterjee, 11-12
Adrian Ildefonso, 12-12
Brian Wier, 12-12
Sinan Liu, 13-13
Nedeljko Karaulac, 12-15
David Fleischhauer, 13-14
Tikurete Bantu, 13-14
Anup Omprakash, 13-14
Yunyi Gong, 14-15
Victor Ying, 15-16
George Tzintzarov, 15-16
Rafael Martinez, 15-16
Ha Dao, 16-17
Delli Nergui, 16-17
Arya Moradinia, 17-18
Sebastian Fernandez, 17-Present
Jacob Campbell, 17-Present
Nitish Katta, 17-18
Geon Kang, 18-19
Srikar Tallapragada, 18-19
Harrison Lee, 18-Present
Prahlad Iyengar, 18-Present