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About Chih-Kong Ken Yang
- 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. 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 Northrup 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. 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.
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