Renuka Jindal of President, IEEE Electron Device Society

Biography: Renuka P. Jindal received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 1981 with minors in Physics and Material Science. Upon graduation, he joined Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey. His experience at Bell Labs over 22 years bridged both technical and administrative roles. On the technical side he worked in all three areas of devices, circuits and systems. Highlights include fundamental studies of noise behavior of scaled sub-micrometer MOS devices, design of high-performance Gigahertz-band RF integrated circuits and physics of low-noise signal amplification and detection including optoelectronic integration. On the administrative side he developed and deployed a corporate-wide manufacturing test strategy in relation to contract manufacturing for Lucent Technologies. In addition, he established and taught RF IC design courses at Rutgers University. In Fall of 2002 Dr. Jindal joined University of Louisiana at Lafayette as William and Mary Hansen Hall Board of Regents Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair. He academic interests include teaching and fundamental research using an end-to-end approach from devices to circuits to systems in relation to modern wireless and lightwave communications.

In 1985 Dr. Jindal became a senior member of IEEE. He received the Distinguished Technical Staff Award from Bell Labs in 1989. In 1991, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the field of solid-state device noise theory and practice. From 1987 to 1989 he served as editor of the solid-state device phenomena section of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. In 1990 he was named Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. In December 2000 he received the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal. From 2000 to 2008 he served as the Vice-President of Publications for the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). In December 2007 he was voted in as President-Elect of EDS. Beginning in January 2010, Dr. Jindal now serves as President of IEEE Electron Devices Society. He has also participated in ABET activities as an evaluator for Electrical Engineering programs at institutions in the United States.

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Address:William and Mary Hansen Hall Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Jeffrey S. Walling of The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers

Wireless devices and sensors are increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of life. As a result, researchers have worked tirelessly to provide more functionality and ever higher data rates to the devices. Researchers are challenged to use energy more efficiently, due to finite battery capacity and increasingly as everyone is asked to reduce their demands from the electric grid. In this talk I will address the challenge of using energy more efficiently in wireless communications systems by leveraging linearization around CMOS switching amplifiers. These switching amplifier topologies provide means to increase output power, efficiency and integratability of the PA with the rest of the radio circuitry, a major stmbling block in the quest for the RF system-on-a-chip (SOC). The talk will summarize why switching amplifiers can outperform their linear counterparts and introduce several switching amplifier topologies, and focus on linearization methods that allow their use in systems with non-constant envelope modulation, including pulse-width and -position modulation (PWPM) and envelope elimination and restoration (EER). The talk will conclude with the introduction of a new topology that utilizes switched capacitors to enable a significant improvement in average efficiency and linearity utilizing a combination of data converter and power amplifier techniques.

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Dr. Walling received the B.S. degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Prior to starting his graduate education he was employed at Motorola, Plantation, FL working in cellular handset development. He interned for Intel, Hillsboro from 2006-2007, where he worked on highly-digital transmitter architectures and CMOS power amplifiers and continued this research while a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Washington. He is currently an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

His current research interests include low-power wireless circuits, energy scavenging, high-efficiency transmitter architectures and CMOS power amplifier design. Dr. Walling has authored over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals and refereed conferences. He received the Yang Award for outstanding graduate research from the University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering in 2008, an Intel Predoctoral Fellowship in 2007-2008, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2006.

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Address:Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University, 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States, 08854

Renuka Jindal of President, IEEE Electron Device Society

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Address:Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Jeffrey S. Walling of The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers

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Address:Piscataway, New Jersey, United States