- August 2022: Haibo Yang joins WiMAC as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
- April 2022: Our paper titled “A Commutated-LC RF Broadband Delay Circuit” is accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. This paper is a prequel to Shuxin's RFIC 2022 work. Congratulations, Shuxin and Jinyao.
- March 2022: Our paper titled “A C-Band Commutated-LC-Negative-R Delay Circuit with Harmonic Power Recycling Achieving 1.5-ns Delay, 1.4-GHz BW, and 6-dB IL” is accepted to 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) symposium. Congratulations, Shuxin and Rakibul.
- March 2022: Our paper titled “A Passive-Mixer-First Acoustic-Filtering Chipset Using Mixed-Domain Recombination” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. This is an invited article based on our work presented at the 2021 IEEE RFIC Symposium. Congratulations, Hyungjoo and Mengze.
- March 2022: We are invited to submit a paper and present it at 2022 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON). Our invited paper is titled “Periodically-Switched Acoustic Filters Using Commutated-LC Circuits for Interference-Resilient Receivers”. This paper reviews WiMAC's work on mixer-first acoustic-filtering front-ends.
- November 2021: Together with Prof. Alyosha Molnar (Cornell University) and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia University), we are organizing a workshop at IMS/RFIC 2022. Our workshop is titled "Advanced Interference Mitigation in Integrated Wireless Transceivers", and Prof. Zhou will presenting WiMAC's research on mixer-first acoustic-filtering front-ends.
- November 2021: Prof. Jaydeep Kulkarni from UT Austin visits SSCS central Illinois chapter virtually and gives a talk on compute-in-memory designs.
- November 2021: Prof. Hesham Omran from Ain Shams University visits SSCS central Illinois chapter virtually and gives a talk on the Analog Designer’s Toolbox.
- August 2021: Rakibul Islam and Jinyao Yang join WiMAC as Ph.D. students. Welcome!
- August 2021: Mengze Sha graduates with his M.S. degree and joins Qualcomm, San Diego. Congratulations!
- June 2021: Our paper titled “A 19 GHz Circular-Geometry Quad-Core Tail-Filtering Class-F VCO with -115 dBc/Hz Phase Noise at 1 MHz Offset in 65-nm CMOS” is accepted to 2021 IEEE European Solid-state Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). Congratulations, Shuxin.
- April 2021: Prof. Kaiyuan Yang from Rice University visits SSCS central Illinois chapter virtually and gives a talk on circuit and system innovations towards practical human body networks.
- March 2021: Our paper titled “A Passive-Mixer-First Acoustic-Filtering Superheterodyne RF Front-End” is accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. This is an invited article based on our work presented at the 2020 IEEE RFIC Symposium. Congratulations, Hyungjoo.
- March 2021: Our paper titled “A 3.5-to-6.2-GHz Mixer-First Acoustic-Filtering Chipset with Mixed-Domain Asymmetric IF and Complex BB Recombination Achieving 170 MHz BW and +27 dBm IIP3 at 1xBW offset” is accepted to 2021 IEEE RFIC symposium. Congratulations, Hyungjoo and Mengze.
- January 2021: We receive an NSF CAREER award to work on next-generation RF circuits and microsystems.
- January 2021: Prof. Zhou enters the UIUC Fall 2020 "list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students" for his teaching of ECE 498-RF IC Design.
- November 2020: Dr. Keith Bowman from Qualcomm visits SSCS central Illinois chapter virtually and gives a talk on adaptive and resilient circuits for processors.
- September 2020: Jingchao Zhou finishes his M.S. thesis and joins Apple.
- June 2020: Our paper titled “Integrated Self-Adaptive and Power-Scalable Wideband Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex MIMO Wireless,” has been published at IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. This article is an expanded version of our full-duplex MIMO work presented at the 2019 IEEE RFIC Symposium.
- February 2020: Our paper titled “A 2.5-to-4.5-GHz Switched-LC-Mixer-First Acoustic-Filtering RF Front-End Achieving <6dB NF, +30dBm IIP3 at 1×Bandwidth Offset,” has been accepted for publication at 2020 IEEE RFIC symposium. This work introduces a new RF front-end architecture of mixer-first acoustic filtering. Congratulations, Hyungjoo.
- February 2020: Our paper titled “An Integrated Full-Duplex/FDD Duplexer and Receiver Achieving 100MHz Bandwidth 58dB/48dB Self-Interference Suppression Using Hybrid-Analog-Digital Autonomous Adaptation Loops,” has been accepted for publication at 2020 IEEE IMS. This work introduces a highly-integrated full-duplex receiver with multi-stage autonomous self-interference cancellation. Congratulations, team.
- February 2020: Prof. Zhou enters the UIUC Fall 2019 "list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students" for his teaching of ECE 342-Electronic Circuits.
- February 2020: Mengze Sha joins WiMAC as an M.S. student. Welcome.
- September 2019: Xuanzhen Cao finishes his M.S. thesis and joins Apple.
- August 2019: Shuxin Ming joins WiMAC. Welcome.
- May 2019: Yuhe and Hyungjoo receive 2019 International Microwave Symposium (IMS) PhD student sponsorship. This PhD student sponsorship initiative, established and sponsored by the IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee, is available for all 1st/2nd year PhD students worldwide. The initiative provides sponsorship to attend IMS2019 and RFIC 2019 in Boston, MA, USA.
- March 2019: Prof. Zhou enters the UIUC Fall 2018 "list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students" for his teaching of ECE 342 - Electronic Circuits.
- February 2019: Our paper titled “A CMOS 0.5-2.5GHz Full-Duplex MIMO Receiver with Self-Adaptive and Power-Scalable RF/Analog Wideband Interference Cancellation” has been accepted for publication at 2019 RFIC symposium! The RFIC is the premier IEEE conference in the world focused on RFIC technology. This is the first chip from our group. Congratulations, Yuhe!
- September 2018: Jingchao Zhou and Talita Barbosa join WiMAC. Welcome.
- September 2018: WiMAC and research groups led by Profs. Al-Hassanieh and Gong at UIUC have received an NSF grant to develop a new generation of energy-efficient chip-scale sensors that could lead to a more efficient use of our radio frequency spectrum. (ECE Illinois news article)
- September 2018: Hyungjoo Seo joins WiMAC. Welcome.
- August 2018: Prof. Zhou enters the UIUC Spring 2018 "list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students" for his teaching of ECE 342 - Electronic Circuits.
- August 2018: Hyungjoo Seo receives Kwanjeong Educational Foundation fellowship. Congratulations!
- March 2018: Prof. Zhou is invited to give a talk about integrated full-duplex radios at an IEEE International Microwave Symposium workshop in June 2018.
- March 2018: Prof. Zhou enters the UIUC Fall 2017 "list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students" for his teaching of ECE 110 - Introduction to Electronics.
- February 2018: Milan joins WiMAC. Welcome.
- February 2018: Papers accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II and IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System (ISCAS). The ISCAS work is led by Profs. Josep Torrellas (UIUC) and Eduard Alarcón (UPC).
- August 2017: Two graduate students and one undergraduate join WiMAC. Welcome, Yuhe, Xuanzhen, and Abhinav.
- January 2017: Our paper titled "Integrated Full-Duplex Radio" has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Communications Magazine. This work is led by Profs. Gil Zussman and Harish Krishnaswamy at Columbia University.
- January 2017: Our paper titled "A Tunable 0.86-1.03 GHz FDD Wireless Communication System With an Evanescent-Mode Diplexer and a Self-Interference-Cancelling Receiver" has been accepted for publication at IEEE International Microwave Symposium. This work is led by Profs. Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia University) and Dimitrios Peroulis (Purdue University).
- January 2017: WiMAC is founded by Prof. Zhou.