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Recent News

  • Eric Hanyu Wang (OSU) received the “2025 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award”
  • Prof. Matthew Johnston (OSU) was an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2024-2025
  • Prof. Gabor Temes (OSU) was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2024)
  • Kareem Rashed (OSU) and Xiaohui Lin (OSU) received the “2024 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award”
  • Mostafa Essawy (OSU) received an “IEEE SSCS 2023-24 Predoctoral Achievement Award”  given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
  • Prof. Deukhyoun Heo (WSU) was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2023 “For contributions to CMOS power amplifiers in multi-layer packages and reconfigurable reactive components”

Awards

CDADIC Awards

2024/25

Best Faculty Project Award:

Prof. Arun Natarajan (OSU) – “Interferer-tolerant, Wireless Transceivers for Radar and Internet-of-Things”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Ramin Javadi, Xiaohui Lin, and Albert (Elliot) Zeien (OSU) – “Machine Learning Inspired Cross-Talk Compensation in Wireline Links”

2nd Place: Soumya Gupta (OSU) – “Interferer-tolerant, Wireless Transceivers for Radar and Internet-of-Things”

2023/24

Best Faculty Project Award:

Prof. Arun Natarajan (OSU) – “Interferer-tolerant, Wireless Transceivers for Radar and Internet-of-Things”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Amin Aghighi, Mostafa Essawy, and Soumya Gupta (OSU) – “A Wideband mm-Wave FMCW Radar TRX in CMOS with Modulated Self-Interference Cancellation Path

2nd Place: Xiaohui Lin and Ramin Javadi (OSU) – “Balance Coding and Machine Learning for Crosstalk Compensation”

2022/23

Best Faculty Project Award:

Prof. Arun Natarajan (OSU) – “Wireless Transceivers for Sensor Arrays in Robotic Hand-Sensing” Platform

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Amin Aghighi, Mostafa Essawy, Soumya Gupta, and Hayden Bialek (OSU) – “A Wideband mm-Wave FMCW Radar TRX in CMOS with Modulated Self-Interference Cancellation Path”

2nd Place: Han-Ting Lin and Jaswanth Manickam Amarnath (OSU) – “Modeling and Design of Passives for RF and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits”

2021/22

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Jacques (Chris) Rudell (UW) – “Low Noise Figure Mixer-First mm-Wave Receiver with High-Speed Low-Resolution ADCs”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Deniz Dosluoglu and Ahmed R. Aboulsaad (UW) – “Mixer-First 4-Element mm-Wave Digital Beamforming Receiver with High-Speed Low-Resolution ADCs”

2nd Place: Dipan Kar, Mohammad Ali Mokri, and Md Aminul Hoque (WSU) – “High-Performance Signal Generation and Conversion for Mm-wave 5G and-Beyond Communication Systems”

2020/21

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Deuk Heo (WSU) – “Multi-band Frequency Tunable Mm-wave Transceiver Sub-Blocks for 5G and Beyond”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Mohammad Chahardori (WSU) – “Multi-band Frequency Tunable Mm-wave Transceiver Sub-Blocks for 5G and Beyond”

2nd Place: Siddarth Rai Mahendra (OSU) – Design and Characterization of Compact/Reconfigurable Passive Components for RF and mmWave Circuits in Silicon”

2019/20

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Andreas Weisshaar (OSU) – “Modeling and Design of Interconnects and Passive Components for Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits in Silicon”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Erfan Ghaderi (WSU) – “Integrated True-Time-Delay Hybrid Beamforming for Large-Scale Arrays on Cellular Base stations / V2X / Airborne Platforms”

2nd Place: Siddarth Rai Mahendra (OSU) – “Design and Characterization of Compact/Reconfigurable Passive Components for RF and mmWave Circuits in Silicon”

2018/19

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Andreas Weisshaar (OSU) – “Modeling and Design of Interconnects and Passive Components for Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits in Silicon”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place:  Mohammad Chahardori (WSU) –  “Ultra-Wide Fractional Bandwidth Frequency Tunable mmWave Transceiver Sub-Blocks for 5G Applications and Beyond”

2nd Place: Xuanyi Dong (OSU) – “Design and Measurement of Compact Passive Components for RF and mmWave Integrated Circuits in Silicon”

2017/18

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Jacques (Chris) Rudell (UW) – “A Compact Wideband Full-Duplex (FD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) Transceiver System with a Circulator, PA and Phase Noise Cancellation”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place:  (2 posters):

  • Praveen Venkatachala (OSU) – “Power Efficient Analog Circuits in CMOS”
  • Kun-Da Chu and Mohamad Katanbaf (UW) – “A Compact Wideband Full-Duplex (FD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) Transceiver System with a Circulator, PA and Phase Noise Cancellation”

2016/17

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Jacques (Chris) Rudell (UW) – “A Compact Wideband Full-Duplex Transceiver System with a Circulator”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Soumya Bose, Shaan Sengupta, Hyunkuy Ouh, and Boyu Shen (OSU) –  “High-voltage Bias Generation and Multimodal Readout Circuits for CMOS-Integrated SPAD Detectors in Radiation Detection”

2nd Place: (2 posters):

  • Tao He, Manjunath Kareppagoudr, Pedram Payandehniah, and Lukang Shi (OSU) – “Micro-Power Data Converters”
  • Lei Zheng and Xuanyi Dong (OSU) – “Modeling and Design of Interconnects and Passive Components for mm-Wave Integrated Circuits in Silicon”
2015/16

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Arun Natarajan (OSU) – “Low-Power Dual-Polarization mm-Wave FM Transmitters and Receivers / RF-energy harvested mm-Wave SoC for mm-Wave RFID”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Yi Zhang (OSU) –  “Micro-Power Data Converters”

2nd Place: Tong Zhang, Chenxi Huang, Ali Najafi, Andrew Chen, and Chenxin Su (UW) – “Broadband Self-Interference Cancellation”

2014/15

Best Faculty Project Award: 

Prof. Deuk Heo (WSU) – “Ultra-low power, low phase noise ADPLL for mm-wave beamforming systems”

Best Student Poster Award:

1st Place: Pawan Agarwal, Srinivasan Gopal, and Joe Baylon (WSU) –  “Ultra-low power, low phase noise ADPLL for mm-wave beamforming systems”

2nd Place: Lei Zheng (OSU) – “Multiphysics-Based Scalable Transmission Line Models for mm-Wave Integrated Circuits on Silicon”

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Summer 2025 CDADIC Meeting

July 10-11, 2025 at Skamania Resort

CDADIC holds biannual meetings, providing regular opportunities for industry members and academic researchers to collaborate and help shape ongoing research projects.