Professor Harish Krishnaswamy at ECE Fall 2023 Colloquium
Confluence of Electromagnetics, Circuits and Systems Enables the Third Wireless Revolution
ICs have fueled several revolutions that have deeply impacted modern society, including the computing revolution, the internet and the first two wireless revolutions. We are at the dawn of the third wireless revolution, which I call the Wireless Mobile Reality revolution. Over the next fifteen years, new wireless paradigms spanning from RF to mmWave/THz will change the way in which we interact with the real world, through applications such as mobile virtual and augmented reality, vision quality imaging, gesture recognition and bio- and materials-sensing. However, ICs are starting to run out of steam - scaling is no longer yielding better transistors that are faster and lower power. Therefore, circuit design needs to be refreshed with new tools that draw inspiration from the layers below (electromagnetics and device physics) and the layers above (communication systems and networking). In this talk, I will describe research along these lines from the CoSMIC lab at Columbia University.
Speaker bio
Harish Krishnaswamy is a Professor and the Director of the Columbia High-Speed and Millimeter-Wave IC Laboratory (CoSMIC). In 2017, he co-founded MixComm Inc., Chatham, NJ, USA, a venture-backed start-up, to commercialize CoSMIC Laboratory’s advanced wireless research. MixComm was acquired in February 2022 by Sivers Semiconductors for $155M, where he is currently MD of the Wireless Business Unit. His research interests include integrated devices, circuits, and systems for a variety of RF, millimeter-wave (mmWave), and sub-mmWave applications. Krishnaswamy has been the recipient of seven Best Paper Awards, the Best Thesis in Experimental Research Award from USC in 2009, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, the 2014 IBM Faculty Award, and the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He has been a member of the TPC of several conferences, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE SSCS and on the DARPA Microelectronics Exploratory Council.
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