These are the enthusiastic and outstanding people who are part of our group. For people interested in joining our group, visit the page listing the open positions.
Executives
Elham AZADFAR
She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Western Australia, Australia, complemented by a Master’s degree in Project Management from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. She has also completed a Machine Learning course using Python at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Currently, she works at Green IC as a Program Manager, where she coordinates research projects and activities, supports collaboration across interdisciplinary teams to develop effective research workflows and processes.
Hephzibah SOLOMON
Hephzibah received her Master’s Degree from Dr.MGR Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai, India in 2015. After graduation, she worked in Cognizant Technologies and Tata Groups as an IT Systems Engineer. Currently, she is working as Project Manager in the Green IC group.
Lab Specialists and Admins
Nithesh RAMALINGAM
Nithesh completed his B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2017 at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Pondicherry. Later He completed his Master’s Degree in Power Electronics and Drives in EGS Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam in 2024 while working in NCR VOYIX as Supply Chain Analyst. Currently working as Research Admin which includes system management and Procurement activities in Green IC group.
Postdocs and Research Fellows
Karim Ali Abdeltawwab AHMED
Karim received B.S. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt, in 2010, M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University in Singapore (NUS), in 2019. He was a research assistant at Nile University from 2010 to 2011 and American University in Cairo (AUC) from 2011 to 2012. He was a graduate intern at PC client group (PCCG), Intel Cooperation, Oregon USA from 2012 to 2013. He worked as a teaching assistant at Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus (METU – NCC) in 2014. He is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at Electrical and Computer Engineering department, NUS. His research interest includes non-volatile memories and logic, computing in memory, low power ADCs, computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D ICs, and field programmable analog arrays IC design.
Animesh GUPTA
Animesh Gupta completed his B.Tech. (with Honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2018. He worked at Synopsys Bangalore, India for two years as a Product Engineer. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Green IC group at NUS. His research area revolves around design techniques for energy-efficient machine learning accelerators. He is currently working on designing a low-power Deep Neural Network accelerator based on Dyadic Digital Pulse Modulation.
Ruiyuan YANG
Ruiyuan received his B.Eng. (with Honours) in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. with the Green IC group at NUS. His recent research focus is on the design of backscatter communication chips. Currently, he is working on a backscatter communication system based on Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 for realizing long-range ultra-low-power communications for IoT sensor nodes.
Yuanzhao DING
Dr. Ding Yuanzhao earned his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2004-2008. He completed his Master’s in Energy Engineering at Peking University in 2008-2011 and obtained his PhD in Sustainable Earth from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2012-2017. In 2020, Dr. Ding received a second Master’s degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford, UK in 2018-2020. Following his graduation, he joined the National University of Singapore to conduct research related to sustainability.
HUANG Yingna
Yingna Huang received the B.S. degree in microelectronic science and engineering from Shenzhen University in 2018, the M.S. degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics from Peking University in 2021, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she is currently a Research Fellow with the Green IC group. Her research interests include imagers, embodied AI, computing systems for optimization problems, and ultra-low-power designs.
Umara HANIF
Umara Hanif is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NUS in 2026 and her B.Sc. in Computer Science from UET Lahore in 2020. She has two years of industry experience, having worked as a security researcher at AMD, Vultara Inc., and VaporVM. Her research interests include hardware and FPGA security, IoT and cyber-physical systems, runtime anomaly detection, and machine-learning-based security. Her current work focuses on the security of RF, wireless, and cognitive devices.
PhD students
Neil BANERJEE
Neil received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2023. He is now pursuing his PhD part-time with the GREEN-IC group, while working as a Teaching Assistant in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NUS. He is currently working in the field of AI accelerators, particularly for large sequential models like transformers.
Yi Xuen GOH
Yi Xuen holds an MEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, earned in 2020. He spent four years at Intel Microelectronics, focusing on clock distribution and IP development for x86 Client SoC CPU products. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His research explores architectures for agentic, energy-efficient systems and AI-assisted design methodologies.
MA Yuyu
Ma Yuyu received her Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2021, and MSc. Degree from NUS in 2022. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. Degree in the Green IC group. Her research interests are analog circuits and architectures based on transistors working in super-cutoff region.
Zhongheng XIE
Xie Zhongheng received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & its Automation from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in the year 2022. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department from the National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Alioto. Currently he is working on Compute-in-Memory architecture, AI dataflow optimization and accelerator design for on-chip multimodal Transformer.
Yifan ZHAO
Zhao Yifan received his Bachelor’s Degree in Integrated Circuits Design and Integrated Systems from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2023. He is pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current interests cover AI acceleration and digital architecture design.
Dingyi XIONG
Xiong Dingyi received the bachelor’s degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University (in China) in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department from the National University of Singapore. He is currently working on side-channel attack in EM area, which is about EM attack prevention through the EM-aware stdcell placement.
Yuchen JIANG
Jiang Yuchen received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering from Nanjing Tech University in 2021. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering Nanoelectronics Specialization from National University of Singapore. His research interest is on energy-efficient microarchitecture design. He is currently working on low power high speed communication between MCU and self-designed FPGA on the same chip.
Research Engineers and Research Associates
Utsav JANA
UTSAV graduated in 2019 with a degree in VLSI and embedded systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani India. From 2019 to 2021 he was with Qualcomm, Bangalore working on RTL-DFT/CAD for snapdragon chipset. From 2021 to 2023 he was with Intel, Xeon Engineering Group (XEG) Bangalore working as SOC design engineer. From 2023 to 2024 he worked in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on a joint project with ASTAR IME Singapore. His research interest lies in edge-ML, Low power design and hardware accelerators, quantum computing. He joined GREEN-IC at NUS on Feb-24. Currently he is working on modelling low power SIMD processors and efficient circuit representation learning.
Lahari KOMMALAPATI
Lahari received her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Patna in 2025. Prior to joining NUS, she spent eighteen months at STMicroelectronics working on automated design space exploration for HLS-based accelerator design and automating block-level functional verification for AI accelerator IPs. Her research interests lie at the intersection of algorithms and hardware, particularly energy-efficient inference at the edge. She is interested in algorithm-architecture co-design for embodied AI systems and agentic design methodologies for systems-on-chip. She joined the Green IC group as a Research Engineer.
MSc students
QI Siyuan
Qi Siyuan received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Soochow University in 2025. He is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His interests include power management and Analog-to-Digital conversion. He is currently working on Super-cutoff analog circuits for sub-leakage power.
WANG Xiao
Wang Xiao received his Bachelor’s Degree in Faculty of Integrated Circuit from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2025. He is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current research interests include VLSI design for speaker recognition/verification. He is currently working on battery powered audio monitoring circuits for wake word detection and simultaneous speaker verification for natural mode interfaces.
LI Xuanhui
Li Xuanhui received his Bachelor’s Degree in Automation from Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen in 2025. He is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His interests include digital electronics and hardware-software codesign. He is currently working on digital interface for smart vision system.
G Krishna Kumar Teja
Krishna received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal in 2021. He worked in Indian Space Research Organisation as a Scientist from 2021 to 2025, developing electronic packages to control launch vehicles. He is presently pursuing his M.Sc. in Electrical engineering at National University of Singapore. His research interests include RTL design, AI accelerators and on-chip processing.
Arkajit Pal
Arkajit received his Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communications from National Institute of Technology Tirchirappalli, India in 2023. Upon graduation, he worked two years in Jio Platforms as a Hardware Engineer focusing on Integration testing and Digital Design. Currently, he is pursuing Master’s in Electrical Engineering in NUS. His primary research interests lie in IC design and Energy efficient systems.
Sinha Nishant
Nishant received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Patna and thereafter went on to explore MBA from Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. He has 4 years of experience in management role at Bajaj Auto Limited. Presently pursuing master’s in electrical engineering at NUS with research interest in efficient IC design and currently working on area and energy efficient logic style for flexible IC.
Undergraduate students
Siddhi Prakash
Siddhi is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the National University of Singapore, with an interest in VLSI design and energy-efficient computing architectures. Her current work explores hardware–software interfaces, including working on MLIR-based compiler frameworks for custom architectures to enable efficient mapping of workloads onto specialised hardware.
Choi Seungwoo
Choi Seungwoo is a final-year undergraduate in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, with a minor in Computer Science. His interests are digital design, AI accelerators and hardware security. He is currently working on in-memory hashing in the Green IC group, on how a cryptographic hash function can be decomposed into an SRAM compute-in-memory array, and on which hash algorithm does so at the lowest area and energy cost.
Visiting Students/Researchers
Antonio MANNO
Antonio Manno is a visiting student at the National University of Singapore. He received the Bachelor and Master Laurea degrees (cum Laude) in Electronic Engineering in 2022 and 2024, respectively,
at the University of Catania where currently he his is a PhD student. His primary research interests are in analog and digital ICs with
emphasis on ultra-low voltage and low power circuits.
CARUSO Carla
Carla is a visiting student at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Catania in July 2022. Her thesis focused on the implementation of CCII-based active electrodes for sEMG, highlighting improvements in patient comfort, CMRR, power consumption, and silicon area compared to conventional EMG solutions and state-of-the-art designs. Since October 2022, she has been pursuing an industrial PhD in collaboration with Analog Devices, advancing research on sEMG systems and power management.
Noor Ul Amin
Noor Ul Amin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics, with distinction, from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests include energy harvesting, power management circuits, flexible TFT-based integrated circuits, voltage references, OTAs, ADCs, DACs, and ultra-low-power circuits. His current research focuses on power management and energy-harvesting circuits for flexible electronics and the design of integrated circuits in TFT technology.
Ngo-Doanh Nguyen
Ngo-Doanh Nguyen currently is a PhD student in Electromagnetism, Electronics, and Telecommunications at the University of Genoa, Italy. He received an M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering at the Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of Aizu, Japan, in 2024. He was a Research Engineer on system integration and VLSI design for artificial intelligence with the ITI, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (2018–2022), where he received a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE), in 2019. His research interests include hardware/software co-design and verification, and low-power solutions for artificial intelligence.
Visiting professors and scientists in past years
– Prof. Edoardo Charbon (May 2025)
– Prof. Giovanni De Micheli (Feb 2024)
– Prof. Andrea Ballo (Aug – Sept 2023; Jul – Oct 2024)
– Prof. Dennis Sylvester (July – Aug 2019)
– Prof. Jan Rabaey (periods in 2018-2020)
– Prof. Kaushik Roy (summer 2016, 2017)
– Mario CASU, Politecnico di Torino (2017)
– Prof. Bevan BAAS, University of California Davis (2016)
– Andrea CALIMERA, Politecnico di Torino (2016)
Alumni and past members (PhD, Research Engineers, MSc)
–Wang Tianqi – IC Design Engineer at Broadcom
–Neelkamal Semwal
–Zhang Hui
–Kalingage Udara Samurdhi Harshanga
–Anil Kumar GUNDU
–Hongchang QIAO
–Xinhui ZHANG
–Qu Hao
–Japesh VOHRA
–Marco PRIVITERA (Visiting PhD student)
–Filippo MARTININI (Visiting PhD student)
–Hoang Hong HANH
— Yao Zu WONG
— Lei HAO (undergrad student)
–Chengyu JIA (MSc student)
–Guowei YANG (MSc student)
–DING Chang (MSc student)
— Udari De Alwis – Researcher at imec- Lueven
— Sixiao SUN
— Thoithoi Singh Salam
— Praveen Shivappa Salamani – Senior Analog Design Engineer at Innatera Nanosystems
— Liu Yue (MSc in NUS)
— Liu Jiaqi (MSc in NUS)
— Varun Agarwal (Undergraduate, Class of 2024)
— Luigi Fassio – Huawei
— Fang Qiang – Circuit Design Engineer at AMD
— Joydeep Basu – Assistant Professor at Jadavpur University
— Himadri Singh Raghav
— Viveka Konandur Rajanna – Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
— Orazio AIELLO – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Genova | UNIGE
— Tianran SHI (MSc in NUS)
— Liangying CHEN (MSc in NUS)
— Yu KAI (MSc in NUS)
— Venkata Ramana Nimmagadda (MSc in NUS)
– Sayan Kumar – Doctoral Researcher at University College Dublin
– Sachin TANEJA (PhD 2016-2021) – Intel Labs
– Longyang LIN – Assistant Professor at SUSTech
– Prachi AGARWAL – PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
– Kalana Laksith DE SILVA (STEngineering)
– Benoit D’ARAMON (visiting student from EPFL, 2020)
– Saurabh JAIN (PhD and RF, 2013-2019) – Intel Labs
– Jinq Horng TEO (PhD, 2016-2019) – currently at Huawei Singapore
– Ramesh Vaddi (RF, 2018-2019) – currently at SRM University
– Gopalakrishnan SADAGOPAN (RE, 2016-2018) – Senior Physical Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
– Ayushi AGARWAL (RE, 2018) – currently at IIT
– Soumya Shatakshi PANDA (RE, 2018) – Research Assistant at Universität Siegen
– Amulya PANDEY (MSc in NUS)
– Nishant GUPTA (MSc in NUS)
– Snehlata GUTGUTIA (MSc in NUS) – currently with Intel
– Priyankar TALUKDAR (RE)
– Isha GARG (RE) – currently with Purdue University
– Kien TRINH QUANG (PhD in NUS)
– Anastacia ALVAREZ (PhD in NUS) – currently with the University of the Philippines Diliman
– Santanu SARKAR (RF)
– Maryana HERMAWAN (MSc 2013) – currently with Mediatek
– Harish DURAIRAJ (MSc 2014) – currently with Global Foundries
– Gopalakrishnan PONNUSAMY (MSc 2014, RE 2015) – currently with Rockwell Automation
– Niranjani RAJAGOPAL (RE, 2015) – currently with Western Digital, Bangalore
– Preetham KUMAR SELVAKUMAR (MSc, 2016) – currently with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
– Cheng Fei PHUNG (MSc, 2016)
– Shubham RAI (RE, 2016) – currently with TU Dresden
– Aishwarya RAMESH (MSc, 2016)
– Allan SHUAI (RE, 2016) – currently with Omnivision (previously with Mediatek)
– Deepa SINDHE SIVAJI (RE, 2017) – currently with Broadcom
– Prakhar SHARMA (RE, 2017) – currently with NUS
– Enrico Macrelli (RF, 2017) – currently with Politecnico di Torino