Chih-Kong Ken Yang

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Chih-Kong Ken Yang (born August 17, 1970) is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratories (ICSL), and co-founder of

Education and career[]

He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 1992 and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Stanford University under the supervision of Professor Mark Horowitz. Since then, he has been a professor at UCLA with over 100 journal and conference publications. He is an IEEE Fellow and was awarded the Northrup Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, and . In 2010, he co-founded Pluribus Networks, Inc. with Robert Drost and Sunay Tripathi.^[1]

Research[]

His research interests are in the area of high-performance digital and mixed-signal circuit design and high-performance networking. Research areas include the design of high-speed data and clock-recovery circuits for large VLSI systems, design of low-power, high-performance computing building blocks, high-voltage drivers for MEMs applications, power optimization of computing systems, and analog-circuit power optimization for nanometer scale devices.

Honors and awards[]

• IEEE Fellow, 2011^[2]

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