Chih-Kong Ken Yang
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Chih-Kong Ken Yang | |
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| Chih-Kong Yang | |
| Born | August 17, 1970 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (Ph.D., 1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science |
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 Pluribus Networks, Inc.
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 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, and IBM Faculty Development Fellow Award. 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]
References
- ^ "Pluribus Networks: Innovating software-defined data center networking solutions to support the modern business and its applications". The Silicon Review. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "Introducing the 2011 Fellows - IEEE - the Institute". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2013-11-06.