Circuit and Radio Systems Group - Alumni

Department of Electronic Systems

Circuit and Radio Systems Group - Alumni

Former PhD-students and staff of the Circuit and Radio Systems group. The group was formed as a merger of the two former groups of Circuit and Systems design (CAS) and Radio Systems (RS).

Note: this is not a complete list. It is kept up to date with the best of the webmaster's knowledge.


Alumni – KR

 

Atarzadeh, Hourieh
PhD Thesis 2017 ''Design of Low-Power Front-End Integrated Circuits for In-Probe Ultrasound Applications''

Xu, Ye
PhD Thesis 2017 ''Low-Power Analog-to-Digital Converter design for In-probe Ultrasound Imaging Systems''

Kapranov, Sergey
PhD Thesis 2017 ''Nonlinear and Stochastic Molecular Dynamics Underlying Thermal and Non-Thermal Effects of RF Electric Fields in Polar Dielectrics''

Kaald, Rune
PhD Thesis 2017 ''Delta Sigma Modulators with Beamformers for Application in Medical Ultrasound Imaging''

Filippopoulos, Iason
PhD Thesis 2016 ''Exploration of energy efficient memory organizations exploiting data variable based system scenarios''

Wang, Peng
PhD Thesis 2015 ''Design of Nanoscale CMOS Integrated Circuits for Ultrasound In-Probe Electronics''

Sharma, Surya
PhD Thesis 2015 ''Low-Power Circuit Designs for IN-Probe Ultrasound Imaging Applications''

Orlandic, Milica
PhD Thesis 2015 ''Efficient Low-Complexity MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Video Transcoding System Architectures and Optimization Techniques susceptible to Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration''
Currently Postdoctoral researcher at IET, NTNU

  Askeland, Stein Arne
PhD Thesis 2014 ''Automotive Radar in W-band Utilizing Wide Angle Phased Array''

Goyal, Nitin
PhD Thesis 2013 ''Design and modeling of high-power semiconductor devices with emphasis on AlGaN/GaN HEMTs''

Khandelwal, Sourabh
PhD Thesis 2013 ''Compact Modeling solutions for Advanced Semiconductor Devices''
Currently Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Palanichamy, Manikandan
PhD Thesis 2013 ''Path Delay Fault Test and BIST'' 
Currently Postdoctoral researcher at University of Montpellier 2, Department of Microelectronics
Cao, Tuan-Vu
Post.doc February 2012 - March 2013
Currently Senior Engineer in Electronic design at Wireless Instrumentation Systems 
Aas, Einar J.
Professor in Circuit and Systems design and head of the CAS group between 1981 and 2012 
Monga, Udit
PhD Thesis 2011 ''Modeling and Characterization of SOI multigate MOSFETs''
Currently at Intel Mobile Communications (Previously Infineon Technologies AG), Munich, Germany 
Cenkeramaddi, Linga Reddy
PhD Thesis 2011 ''Nanoscale Analog Front-end Amplifiers for Medical Ultrasound Imaging''
Currently Senior Engineer (R & D) Microelectronics/VLSI at the University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology
  Halvorsrød, Thomas
PhD Thesis 2010 ''On Low Power, Analog Modules for Medical Ultrsound Imaging Systems''
Currently Program Manager (& Senior Engineer) at GE Vingmed Ultrasound
Sæther, Trond
Professor in the CAS group between 1999 and 2010
Adjunct Professor in the CAS group between 1994 and 1999
PhD Thesis 1991 ''ANALOG CMOS IC DESIGN Switched-Capacitor Circuit Cell Library with Integrated Substrate Shielding''
Currently IP Manager at Nordic Semiconductor

Havashki, Asghar
PhD Thesis 2009 ''On Power Consumption Issues in FIR Filters with Application to Communication Receivers: Complexity, Word length, and Switching Activity''
Currently R & D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor

Sing, Tajeshwar
PhD Thesis 2009 ''Capacitive Sensor Interface Circuits''
Currently Design Engineer at Atmel Norway
Wulff, Carsten
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Efficient ADC's for Nano-Scale CMOS Technology''
Currently R & D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor and part time post doc. at IET, NTNU
  Børli, Håkon
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Modeling of Drain Current and Intrinsic Capacitances in Nanoscale Double-Gate and Gate-All-Around MOSFETs''
Currently Design Engineer at Silicon Labs (former Energy Micro)
Løkken, Ivar
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Digital-to-Analog Conversion in High Resolution Audio''
Currently Design Engineer at Atmel Norway
Saha, Shimul Chandra
PhD Thesis 2008 ''RF MEMS Switch Circuits''
Oskuii, Saeeid Tahmasbi
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Design of Low-Power Reduction-Trees in Parallel Multipliers''
Currently Design Engineer at Texas Instruments Norway
  Kolberg, Sigbjørn
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Modeling of Electrostatics and Drain Current in Nanoscale Double-Gate MOSFETs''
Hu, Qubo
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Hierarchical Memory Size Estimation for Loop Transformation and Data Memory Platform Exploration''
Currently Design Engineer at Atmel Norway
  Sand, Åsmund
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Applying the Internet to Instrumentation and Metrology''
Gjermundnes, Øystein
PhD Thesis 2006 ''Exploiting Arithmetic Built-In Self-Test Techniques for Path Delay Fault Testing''
Currently Hardware Engineer at ARM Norway and Adjunct Associate Professor at IET, NTNU
  Bjørnsen, Johnny Gudmund
PhD Thesis 2005 ''Design of a High-speed, High-Resolution Analog to Digital Converter for Medical Ultrasound Applications''
Currently manager (and founder) of Analog Concepts
  Westby, Eskild Ronæss
PhD Thesis 2004 ''Macromodelling of Microsystems''
  Njølstad, Tormod
Assistant Professor in the CAS group between 1990 and 1996
PhD Thesis 1996 ''On VLSI Realization of a Low-Power Audio Coder with Low System Delay''
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1996 and 2003
Currently CTO EPSON Norway Research and Development
  Aunet, Snorre
PhD Thesis 2002 ''Real-time reconfigurable devices implemented in UV-light programmable floating-gate CMOS''
Currently Professor at IET, NTNU
  Sølhusvik, Johannes
Adjunct Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1998 and 2002
Currently General Manager - Europe Design Center - OmniVision Technologies Norway
  Hernes, Bjørnar
PhD Thesis 2001 ''Design Criteria for Low Distortion in Feedback Opamp Circuits''
Currently Analog and Sensors Architect at Disruptive Technologies (Co-founder)
  Kjeldsberg, Per Gunnar
PhD Thesis 2001 ''Storage Requirement Estimation and Optimization for Data Intensive Applications''
Currently Professor at IET, NTNU
  Strøm, Øyvind
PhD Thesis 2000 ''VLSI Realization of an Embedded Microprocessor Core with Support for Java Instructions''
Currently Sr. Director, Wireless MCU at Atmel Norway
  Torp, Jon H.
Assistant Professor in the CAS group between 1987 and 1988
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1988 and 1998
Currently retiree
  Wichlund, Sverre
PhD Thesis 1998 ''Graph partitioning with application to VLSI system realization''
Currently Senior ASIC Designer at Nordic Semiconductor
  Haaheim, Nils
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1981 and 1985
Professor in the CAS group between 1985 and 1997
Currently retiree 
  Aaserud, Oddvar
Professor in the group between 1989 and 1997
Currently CEO of Venturos Venture
  Sunsbø, Ingil
PhD Thesis 1997 ''Analysis and VLSI Design of Synthesis Filter Bank for Image Subband Coding''
Currently Senior ASIC Designer at Nordic Semiconductor
  Bayegan, Markus
Adjunct Professor in the CAS group between 1985 and 1997
Currently retired from the position as chief technology officer at ABB Ltd.
  Pihl, Johnny
PhD Thesis 1996 ''Design Automation of High Speed Digital Signal Processing in VLSI with Applications in Speech Recognition Systems based in Hidden Markov Models''
Currently Sr. R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor 
  Øye, Jan Egil
PhD Thesis 1996 ''High Speed Cell Library in CMOS for Bitserial Implementation of DSP Algorithms''
Currently Senior Technical Manager Layout at Nordic Semiconductor
  Kristoffersen, Linda
PhD Thesis 1992 ''Exact and Approximate Testability Analysis of Combinational Networks''
Currently Senior Test Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
  van Vo, Nhon
PhD Thesis 1992 ''A contribution to High Level Synthesis of VLSI Systems''
Currently Associate Professor at Institute for Microsystem Technology, Vestfold University College
  Larsen, Bjørn B.
PhD Thesis 1991 ''Compact Test Sets by a Pin Toggle Test Generation Strategy''
Currently Associate Professor at IET, NTNU
  Klingsheim, Karl
PhD Thesis 1990 ''VLSI DESIGN THEORY. Concurrent Decision Cycles in VLSI Systems Design''
Currently general manager of NTNU Technology Transfer
  Svarstad, Kjetil
PhD Thesis 1989 ''VLSI building-blocks for PROLOG machines''
Currently Professor at IET, NTNU