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.
Program Executives
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 Senior Program Executive in the 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.
Hayate OKUHARA
Hayate received a B.S. Degree in Information and System Engineering from Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2014, an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Computer Science from Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. From 2019 to 2021, he was a research fellow at the University of Bologna, Bologna Italy. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Green IC Group, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His primary research interests are in ultra-low-power SoCs, adaptive body biasing aiming for IoT edge devices, and chip-to-chip interfaces.
Anil Kumar GUNDU
Anil Kumar Gundu received B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India, and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2022. He was a trainee at ST Microelectronics, Greater Noida, India from 2014 – 2015. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS. His research interests include SRAM design in FDSOI technology, low-power and high-performance integrated circuit design, and novel semiconductor devices.
PhD students
Japesh VOHRA
Japesh Vohra received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in the 2018. He worked at Samsung Research and Development Institute Delhi for one year as a Software Engineer. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree with the Green IC group at NUS. His research focus includes energy-efficient circuits for real-time systems. He is currently working on designing low-power smart image sensors with in pixel saliency detection.
Hui ZHANG
Hui Zhang is currently working on designing and developing circuitry-level countermeasures against laser-based physical attack against encryption digital ICs as a Research Engineer at Green IC group. Before joining the group, he was working for two years at FINISAR Corp, Shanghai China, where he developed 100Gbps QSFP28 optical transceiver and AOC products for datacenter applications. Hui is holding double Bachelor Degrees of 1st Class Honors B.Eng in Electronics and Electronics Science and Technology from University of Liverpool, UK, and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China respectively. Hui also holds MRes Degree in Integrated Photonics and Electronic System from University of Cambridge, UK.
Udara Samurdhi Harshanga KALINGAGE
Udara received her BTech (Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur and MSc (Hons) in Integrated Circuit Design Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is currently pursuing her PhD with the Green IC group at National University of Singapore. Her research interest is on design of ultra low power intelligent vision systems for sensing, selecting, and computing.
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 pursuing his PhD degree 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.
Tianqi WANG
Tianqi received the B.Eng. (with Honours) and M.Sc. Degrees from NUS department of Electrical Engineering in 2019 and 2021 respectively. He worked with Micron Semiconductor Asia, Singapore, between 2019 and 2021, developing test programs for Micron DDR4 products. He is currently pursuing PhD Degree at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His research interests are reconfigurable & flexible energy-efficient DSP/ AI accelerators.
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.
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.
Research Engineers and Research Associates
Yao Zu WONG
Yaozu received the MSc Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2020. He is currently a Research Engineer in the Green IC group and the FD-FAbrICS research center lead by Prof Massimo Alioto. Previously, he was working at Linear Technology Pte Ltd (later Analog Device Inc Singapore) as Product Engineer working with products such as data conversion, signal conditioning and power management. His research interests in near-threshold circuits, energy-efficient SoC integration, processor architecture, and low power VLSI design.
Neelkamal SEMWAL
Neelkamal received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, India in 2019. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India from 2019 – 2022. He is currently working as a Research Engineer in the Green IC group. His research interest is on low power systems and circuits.
Hoang Hong HANH
Hanh received her Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Military Technical Academy (Le Quy Don University), Vietnam in 2019. She worked as a Mixed-Signal Engineer at Viettel Group, Vietnam from 2019-2022. She is currently working as a Research Engineer in Green IC Group and her research focus is on a backscatter communication system.
Sixiao SUN
Sun Sixiao received her Bachelor’s Degree in Microelectronic science and technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2021. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department in the Green IC Group at NUS. Her current research work focuses on optimize low-power FPGA develop toolchain.
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 a Research Engineer in the Green IC group. Her research interests are analog circuits and architectures based on transistors working in super-cutoff region.
Qu Hao
Qu Hao has completed his Bachelor’s degree at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on developing new agriculture sensors with ultra-low power and a long lifecycle.
MSc students
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 a Master’s 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.
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 Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department from the National University of Singapore, specialized in Nanoelectronics. Currently he is working on optimizing deep learning algorithms for on-chip and edge machine intelligence.
Yuchen JIANG
Jiang Yuchen received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering from Nanjing Tech University in 2021. Currently, he is pursuing his master’s 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.
Chengyu JIA
Jia Chengyu received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (in China) in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His research is now focusing on hardware security, about MLSCA-patch for multiple crypto cores and multiple IPs including memory.
Xinhui ZHANG
Zhang Xinhui received her Bachelor’s Degree in Microelectronic Science and Engineering (VLSI Design & System Integration) from Nanjing University in 2020, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department from the National University of Singapore. She is currently working on fully-synthesizable analog blocks.
CHEN Quanlong
Chen Quanlong received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and its Automation from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2023. He is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current interests cover smart power management and real time load prediction.
DING Chang
Chang received his Bachelor’s Degree of Electrical and Information Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 2023. He joined Green IC group in August 2023 and is now pursuing Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in NUS. Currently he is working on the verification of RISCV core. His interests cover computer architecture and in memory computing.
QIU Hanyu
Qiu Hanyu received his Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering with Management from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2023. Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore. He is currently working on data provenance authentication based on the RISC-V processor core.
XU Yuanxin Johnson
Yuanxin Xu received his Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2023. Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (Nanoelectronics specialization) from National University of Singapore. His research interest is on radio frequency integrated circuit, energy harvesting and backscatter communication. He is currently working on battery-less motion sensing wake-up receiver based on RF harvesting.
Guowei YANG
Yang Guowei received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Shandong University in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His is working on Ultra Low Power Amplifier.
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 Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current interests cover AI acceleration and digital architecture design.
Visiting PhD students
Marco PRIVITERA
Marco Privitera was born in Italy, in 1997. He received the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering at University of Catania under the supervision of Prof. Alfio Dario Grasso. He is currently a Visiting PhD student at National University of Singapore under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Alioto.
His current research interests include PMICs battery-less energy harvesters and ultra-low power analog and digital-based-analog blocks.
Filippo MARTININI
Filippo Martinini, born on 09/12/1996 in Italy, is a Ph.D. student at the University of Bologna specializing in statistical signal processing and machine learning. He graduated in 2018 and 2021 from the same institution. He spent a year as an Erasmus student at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Filippo’s research is centered on accelerated MRI acquisition using deep neural networks and compressed sensing techniques for biomedical data. Currently, as a visiting Ph.D. at the GreenIC lab in Singapore, he is applying machine learning techniques to sensor fusion challenges and optimizing Transformers to enhance their hardware efficiency.
Undergraduate students
Lei HAO
Lei Hao is an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in register transfer level (RTL) hardware design and AI accelerator development. He is enthusiastic about exploring the practical applications and advancements in these fields.
Visiting professors and scientists in past years
— Prof. Andrea Ballo (Aug – Sept 2023)
– 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)
— Wathuthanthrige Udari Charitha De Alwis – Researcher at imec- Lueven
— 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