Joung Won Park, joungwon@ee.ucla.edu

Joung Won Park received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea in 2002, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2009. His research in his Master's was focused on the design of highly linear Low Noise Amplifiers. In 2008, he worked as an intern in Qualcomm, San Diego for six months where he designed very wide tuning range, low power, low phase noise VCOs in 65nm CMOS Technology. In fall 2009, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles for his PhD program where he is involved in the design of Cognitive Radio.

   
  Ali Homayoun, homayoun@ee.ucla.edu

Ali Homayoun received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He designed the receiver front-ends of an integrated RFID Reader during his Master program. In fall 2009, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles as a PhD student where he is designing a frequency synthesizer for cognitive radios. His research interests include RF/Analog/Mixed-mode integrated circuit design.
 

   
  Sy-Chyuan Hwu, schwu@ee.ucla.edu

Sy-Chyuan Hwu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan in 2003 and 2005, respectively. His Master research focuses on burst-mode clock and data recovery circuits (BMCDR) for optical networks. In fall 2005, he joined MediaTek Inc. as an analog circuit designer and worked on video front-end circuits for TV products. In fall 2010, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles for his PhD program where he is involved in the design of Cognitive Radio.

   
  Joseph Palackal Mathew, jpmathew@ee.ucla.edu

Joseph Palackal Mathew received his B-Tech degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, in 2006. He then joined the high precision analog team at Texas Instruments (TI), Bangalore, where he developed his career as a mixed signal design engineer. His work at TI mostly focused on design of high speed, low power analog to digital converters. He joined UCLA in fall of 2010 as a masters student continuing into the PhD program. His currenr research is aimed at developing power efficient ADC architecture.