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IEEE 58th International
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

August 2-5, 2015, Fort Collins, Colorado Climbing to New Heights

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Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • Memristors (Room 300) [Chair: Onur Tigli, University of Miami]
    • [1459] A Chaotic Attractor From a Memristor System - Field-Programmable Gate Array Realization and Rigorous Analysis
      Authors: Wyatt Starck, Grace Whitmore, Muthuswamy Bharathwaj, Zbigniew Galias
    • [1610] Memristor Emulator based on Practical Current Controlled Model
      Authors: Abdullah G. Alharbi, Mohammed E. Fouda, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1711] Investigating Power Characteristics of Memristor-based Logic Gates and Their Applications in a Security Primitive
      Authors: Jaya Dofe, Jonathan Frey, Patrick Nsengiyumva, Qiaoyan Yu
    • [1792] A Reference-Less Multilevel Memristor Based RRAM Module
      Authors: Ahmed Emara, Maged Ghoneima
Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • Analog Circuits I (Room 304) [Chair: Chris Winstead, Utah State University]
    • [1247] A 70°Phase Margin Differential OPAMP with Positive Feedback in Flexible a-IGZO TFT Technology
      Authors: Reza Shabanpour, Koichi Ishida, Tilo Meister, Niko Stephan Munzenrieder, Luisa Petti, Giovanni Antonio Salvatore, Bahman Kheradmand-Boroujeni, Corrado Carta, Gerhard Troster, Frank Ellinger
    • [1630] A Charge-Redistribution Based Controller for Keeping Charge Balance in Neural Stimulation
      Authors: Lucas Teixeira, Cesar Rodrigues, Cesar Prior
    • [1714] A Hardware Trojan Vulnerability in Inverse Widlar Reference Generator
      Authors: Xing Cao, Qianqian Wang, Degang Chen, Randall L Geiger
    • [1873] A High Precision and High Speed Voltage-Mode Loser/Winner-Take-All Circuit
      Authors: Punith R. Surkanti, Venu Siripurapu, Paul M. Furth
Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • Sensors (Room 308) [Chair: Vishal Saxena, Boise State University]
    • [1037] On-Chip Digital Calibration for Automatic Input Impedance Boosting during Biopotential Measurements
      Authors: Seyed Alireza Zahrai, Li Xu, Chun-hsiang Chang, Kainan Wang, Ibrahim Farah, Marvin Onabajo
    • [1306] Flexible PVDF Ferroelectric Capacitive Temperature Sensor
      Authors: Naveed Khan, Hesham Omran, Yingbang Yao, Khaled Salama
    • [1669] A Pseudo-Differential Charge Balanced Ratiometric Readout System for Capacitive Inertial Sensors
      Authors: Saber Amini Baghbadorani, David Andrew Johns
    • [1898] Biomedical Sensor Interface for PLI Cancellation
      Authors: Maged ElAnsary, Mohamed El-Nozahi, Hani F. Ragaie
Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • RF Circuits I (Room 322) [Chair: Vassili Kireev, Xilinx Inc.]
    • [1024] CMOS-MEMS Novel Resonator for Filter Tuning
      Authors: H. Goktas, M.E. Zaghloul
    • [1558] A 8–14 GHz Varactorless Current Controlled LC Oscillator in 16nm CMOS Technology
      Authors: Somnath Kundu, Vassili Kireev, Chris H. Kim
    • [1725] A Low-Power Two-Stage Harmonic Rejection Quadrature Mixer Employing Bias-Current Reuse
      Authors: Wei-Gi Ho, Travis Forbes, Ranjit Gharpurey
    • [1891] A 100 Gb/s Transimpedance Amplifier with Diode-Connecting Input-Resistance-Reduction in 32nm CMOS Technology
      Authors: Joseph Chong, Dong S Ha
Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • Application of FPGA (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Eric Fetzer, Intel Corp.]
    • [1744] An FPGA Based Passive K-Delta-1-Sigma Modulator
      Authors: Angsuman Roy, Matthew Meza, Joey Yurgelon, R. Jacob Baker
    • [1804] FPGA Design Space Exploration of IDEA Cryptography IP Core
      Authors: Dinesh Varma Penumetcha, Jiafeng Xie, Saiyu Ren
    • [1871] Process Variation Immunity of Alternative 16nm HK/MG-based FPGA Logic Blocks
      Authors: Ahmad Alzahrani, Ronald F. DeMara
Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)
  • Student Papers I (Room 324) [Chair: Yong-bing Kim, Northeastern University]
    • [1278] A 10-Gb/s Inductorless AGC Amplifier with 45-dB Linear Variable Gain Control in 0.13-um CMOS
      Authors: Sagar Ray, Mona M. Hella
    • [1718] A Delta-Sigma-Based Transmitter Utilizing FIR-Embedded Digital Power Amplifiers
      Authors: Heng Liu, Hanjun Jiang, Yiyu Shen, Woogeun Rhee, Zhihua Wang
    • [1889] Inductorless bandwidth extension using local positive feedback in inverter-based TIAs
      Authors: Weihao Ni, Marc-Alexandre Chan, Glenn Cowan
    • [1921] Optimizing Power of Many-Core Systems by Exploiting Dynamic Voltage, Frequency and Core Scaling
      Authors: Bin Liu, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Soheil Ghiasi, Bevan M. Baas
Monday August 3, 2015 (14:00 - 15:00)
  • Posters I (Ballrom C) [Chair: Jake Baker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas]
    • [1027] Cascoded Power Stage With Automatic Dead Time Generation
      Authors: J.K. Jarvenhaara, I.M. Filanovsky, N.T. Tchamov
    • [1171] Bioreactor Profile Design and Optimization For Ethanol Production
      Authors: Ubaid Imtiaz, Sudhanshu S Jamuar, Jaya N. Sahu
    • [1311] Cryptanalysis of a Double Scroll Based "True" Random Bit Generator
      Authors: Salih Ergun
    • [1437] A Booth-Like Modulo operator
      Authors: Firas Hassan, Joao Lucas Magalini , Victor-de-Campos Pentea, Joan Carletta
    • [1460] A Netlist Implementation of the Newton Fixed-point Homotopy Method for MOS Transistor Circuits
      Authors: Dan Niu, Yasuaki Inoue, Zhou Jin, Xiao Wu
    • [1582] Low-power, serial interface for power-constrained devices
      Authors: Brian Degnan, Jennifer Hasler
    • [1609] Comparative Analysis and Parameter Extraction Automation of Annular MOSFETs
      Authors: Boris M. Contreras-Ospino, Anthony Flores-Nigaglioni, Gladys O. Ducoudray, Rogelio Palomera
    • [1731] Analyzing the Performance of a Configurable ROPUF Design Controlled by Programmable XOR Gates
      Authors: Fathi Amsaad, Mohammed Niamat
    • [1783] Feedback Gain Phase Alignment Effects on Convergence Characteristics in Lucy-Richardson Deconvolution for Inversely Predicting Complex-Shaped RTN Distributions
      Authors: Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Worawit Somha
    • [1786] Efficient Architecture and Implementation for NTRUEncrypt System
      Authors: Bingxin Liu, Huapeng Wu
    • [1830] Switched-Compensation Technique in Switched-Capacitor Circuit for Achieving Fast Settling Performance
      Authors: Jiaming Liu, Hao Meng, Degang Chen
    • [1844] Reliable Gold Code Generators for GPS Receivers
      Authors: Chris Winstead, Emmanuel Boutillon, Mohamed Mourad Hafidhi
    • [1946] Design and Implementation of an Embedded System for Monitoring At-home Solitary Alzheimer’s Patients
      Authors: Srinivas Katkoori
    • [1967] A Driver Circuit based on the emerging GaN-on-CMOS Process for the emerging Electroluminescent Panels
      Authors: T Ge, L Guo, Y Kang, J Zhou, H He, PJE Ng, E Fitzgerald, K. E. K. Lee , J Chang
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Power Harvesting (Room 300) [Chair: Mahima Arrawatia, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]
    • [1116] Power Harvesting Using Tuned Comb Drive
      Authors: Krishnamohan Thangarajah, Ali Attaran, Rashid Rashidzadeh
    • [1565] Optimization of ON Current in Multilayer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) based Tunnel Field Effect Transistor
      Authors: Muhammad Sanaullah, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1687] An Active Rectifier with Optimal Flip Timing for the Internal Capacitor for Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesting
      Authors: Liao Wu
    • [1698] A Battery-Less Power Management Circuit for RF Energy Harvesting with Input Voltage Regulation and Synchronous Rectification
      Authors: Gaurav Saini, Mahima Arrawatia, Maryam S. Baghini, Soumik Sarkar
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Digital Techniques I (Room 304) [Chair: Garrett Rose, University of Tennessee Knoxville]
    • [1190] Differential Current-Mode Clock Distribution
      Authors: Riadul Islam, Hany Fahmy, Ping-Yao Lin, Matthew R. Guthaus
    • [1329] A Process Tolerant Semi-Self Impedance Calibration Method for LPDDR4 Memory Controller
      Authors: Ho Joon Lee, Yong-Bin Kim
    • [1424] A Two-Dimensional Chaotic Logic Gate for Improved Computer Security
      Authors: James Bohl, Lok-Kwong Yan, Garrett S. Rose
    • [1824] High Performance Single Supply CMOS Level Up/Down Shifter for Multiple Voltages
      Authors: José C. García, Juan A. Montiel-Nelson
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Biosensors I (Room 308) [Chair: Vishal Saxena, Boise State University]
    • [1080] A Smart Transduction System with PVTA Compensation for Sensing Applications
      Authors: Luis A. Carrillo-Martínez, Guillermo Espinosa Flores-Verdad, Berni M. Pérez, Joel Molina Reyes
    • [1129] A Wide Range and High Conversion Gain Power Detector for Frequency Shift Sensing Applications
      Authors: Chua-Chin Wang, Deng-Shian Wang, Shiou-Ya Chen, Chia-Ming Chang
    • [1892] A PVT-Compensated Capacitive Sensor with sub-1fF Sensitivity
      Authors: Sam Wright, Tom Chen
    • [1894] A Single-Ended Chopper-Stabilized ISFET Amplifier for Continuous pH Measurement Applications
      Authors: Mohammadreza Asgari, Kye-Shin Lee
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Special Session: Emerging Nanoelectronic Logic and Memory Devices based Circuits and Architectures (Room 322) [Chair: Rashmi Jha, University of Cincinnati]
    • [1224] Current Voltage Characteristics of Partially Depleted Silicon on Ferroelectric Insulator Field Effect Transistor (PD-SOFFET)
      Authors: Azzedin Es-Sakhi, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1498] Switching Characteristics Of MgO based Self-Compliant ReRAM Devices
      Authors: Wenchao Lu, Wenbo Chen, Prem Thapaliya, Ryan O’Dell, Rashmi Jha
    • [1936] Design of an MTJ-Based Nonvolatile Lookup Table Circuit Using an Energy-Efficient Single-Ended Logic-In-Memory Structure
      Authors: Daisuke Suzuki, Takahiro Hanyu
    • [1963] Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Computing Using Spintronic Memory
      Authors: Robert Karam, Kai Yang, Swarup Bhunia
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Amplifiers (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Chris Winstead, Utah State University]
    • [1284] Switched-gain feedback amplifiers
      Authors: Soumyajit Mandal
    • [1318] Two-Phase Buck DC-AC Converter as Dynamic Power Supply for Amplitude-Modulated Class-DE Power Amplifier
      Authors: Agasthya Ayachit, Dalvir K. Saini, Marian K. Kazimierczuk
    • [1705] Analysis of 1/f^2 and 1/f^3 Noise in the High-pass Chopper Amplifier with a High-Impedance Source
      Authors: Myungjin Han, Gunhee Han
    • [1934] A CMOS ripple detector for integrated voltage regulator testing
      Authors: Aydin Dirican, Cagatay Ozmen, Nurettin Tan, Hieu Nguyen, Martin Margala
Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)
  • Student Papers II (Room 324) [Chair: Yong-bing Kim, Northeastern University]
    • [1447] A Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diode Based Silicon Photomultiplier as Optical Detector
      Authors: Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, Nicole McFarlane
    • [1492] Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60GHz Wireless Communication
      Authors: Nicholas Preyss, Lorenz Koestler, Andreas Burg
    • [1706] Exact and Approximated Discrete-Time Non-Linear Model of Voltage Switched CP-PLL
      Authors: Ehsan Ali, Wenceslas Rahajandraibe, Fayrouz Haddad, Ndiogou Tall, Christian Hangmann, Christian Hedayat
    • [1856] Exploiting State Obfuscation to Detect Hardware Trojans in NoC Network Interfaces
      Authors: Jonathan Frey, Qiaoyan Yu
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • Power Management (Room 300) [Chair: Eric Fetzer, Intel Corp.]
    • [1176] STG-based Detection of Power Virus Inputs in FSM
      Authors: Vasily G. Moshnyaga, Hideki Nita
    • [1250] Electrical Circuit Modeling of A PEM Fuel Cell System Including Compressor Effect
      Authors: Mahmoud Nabag, Hassan Hejase, Ali Al-Marzouqi
    • [1273] Application of Used Electric Vehicle Batteries to Buffer Photovoltaic Output Transients
      Authors: Yacouba Moumouni, R. Jacob Baker
    • [1274] Buffer Sizing of Concentrated Photovoltaic Batteries: An Economic Analysis
      Authors: Yacouba Moumouni, R. Jacob Baker
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • Digital Techniques II (Room 304) [Chair: Shaista Jabeen, North Dakota State University]
    • [1220] A New Scalable Fault Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Networks-on-Chip
      Authors: Hamed Sajjadi Kia, Cristinel Ababei, Sudarshan Srinivasan, Shaista Jabeen
    • [1678] Scaled IIR Filter Based on Stochastic Computation
      Authors: Naoya Onizawa, Shunsuke Koshita, Takahiro Hanyu
    • [1899] Runtime Slack-Deficit Detection for a Low-Voltage DCT Circuit
      Authors: Yaoqiang Li, Pierce I-Jen Chuang, Andrew Kennings, Manoj Sachdev
    • [1942] Revisiting Redundant Booth with Bias Multipliers
      Authors: Sampoorna Mallpeedi, James E. Stine
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • ADCs I (Room 308) [Chair: Chris Winstead, Utah State University]
    • [1186] A 0.5V 11b Self-Calibrated SAR ADC
      Authors: Xiaoyang Wang, Hai Huang, Qiang Li
    • [1285] A 12-bit 20-MS/s SAR ADC with Improved Internal Clock Generator and SAR Controller
      Authors: Xuan Li, Shuo Huang, Jianjun Zhou, Xiaoyong Li
    • [1810] A 15.5-mW 20-GSps 4-Bit Charge-Steering Flash ADC
      Authors: Mostafa M. Ayesh, Sameh Ibrahim, Mohamed M. Aboudina
    • [1897] A 14-bit 200MS/s Low-Power Pipelined Flash-SAR ADC
      Authors: Jifang Wu, Fule Li, Weitao Li, Chun Zhang, Zhihua Wang
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • RF Circuits II (Room 322) [Chair: Jake Baker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas]
    • [1164] A Blocker-Tolerant ZigBee Transceiver with On-Chip Balun and CR/IQ/IIP2 Self-Calibrations for Home Automation
      Authors: Bing Xia, Nan Qi, Yu Yin, Su Liu
    • [1264] Digital Cubic Interpolation and Synchronization for RF Receiver using Power-Gated ADC
      Authors: Pons Jean-Francois, Dehaese Nicolas, Bourdel Sylvain, Gaubert Jean, Paille Bruno
    • [1501] Concurrent Dual-Band LNA For Automotive Application
      Authors: Mostafa Gamal, Mohamed El-Nozahi, Hadia El-Hennawy
    • [1932] A PA for MBOFDM-UWB and IR-UWB Transmitters
      Authors: Praveen Gunturi, David E. Kotecki
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • Special Session: Silicon Photonics and Optical Transceivers I (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Cheng Li, Hewlett-Packard Labs]
    • [1956] Silicon Mach-Zhender Interfermeter Modulator with PAM-4 data enconding scheme at 64 Gb/s
      Authors: Ashkan Seyedi, Kunzhi Yu, Cheng Li, Tsung-Chin Huang, Dan Berkram, Christopher Wilson, Ranojoy Bose, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond Beausoleil
    • [1957] Energy Efficiency Comparisons of NRZ and PAM4 Modulation for Ring-Resonator-Based Silicon Photonic Links
      Authors: Binhao Wang, Kunzhi Yu, Hao Li, Patrick Yin Chiang, Samuel Palermo
    • [1959] High-speed Hybrid Silicon Microring Lasers
      Authors: Chong Zhang, Di Liang, Cheng Li, Geza Kurczveil, John E. Bowers, Raymond Beausoleil
    • [1960] DWDM Nanophotonic Interconnects: Toward Terabit/s Chip-Scale Serial Link
      Authors: Tsung-Ching Huang, Cheng Li, Rui Wu, Chin-Hui Chen, Marco Fiorentino, Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, Samuel Palermo, Raymond Beausoleil
Monday August 3, 2015 (16:25 - 17:45)
  • Converters I (Room 324) [Chair: Angsuman Roy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas]
    • [1134] A Low-Power Hybrid ADC Architecture for High-Speed Medium-Resolution Applications
      Authors: Seyed Alireza Zahrai, Marvin Onabajo
    • [1279] Digitally Programmable Offset Compensation of Comparators in Flash ADCs for Hybrid ADC Architectures
      Authors: Marina Zlochisti, Seyed Alireza Zahrai, Marvin Onabajo
    • [1608] Voltage Source Based Voltage-to-Time Converter
      Authors: Thomas Stout, Alexander Dean
    • [1944] A High-Accuracy Differential-Capacitance-to-Time Converter for Capacitive Sensors
      Authors: Masanari Nagai, Satomi Ogawa
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (9:50 - 10:50)
  • Digital Signal Processing I (Room 300) [Chair: Onur Tigli, University of Miami]
    • [1232] High-speed multiplierless Frequency Response Masking (FRM) FIR filters with reduced usage of hardware resources
      Authors: David Ernesto Troncoso Romero
    • [1577] Using Cosine Filters to Improve Alias Rejection in Comb Decimation Filter
      Authors: Angel Garcia Robles, Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek
    • [1809] Design of IIR Digital Fractional-Order Differ-Integrators Using Closed-Form Discretization
      Authors: Reyad El-Khazali
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (9:50 - 10:50)
  • Communication Circuits I (Room 304) [Chair: Tetsuya Shimamura, Saitama University]
    • [1139] A High Precision Phase Control Unit for DDS-based PLLs for 2.4-GHz ISM band applications
      Authors: Claudio Talarico, G. D'Amato, G. Coviello, G. Avitabile
    • [1213] MDLL/PLL dual path clock generator
      Authors: Hyuk Sun, Un-Ku Moon
    • [1328] IR-UWB BPK Transmitter Optimized for Maximum Distance of Transmission
      Authors: Praveen Gunturi, David E. Kotecki
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (9:50 - 10:50)
  • Biosensors II (Room 308) [Chair: Michael Green, University of California, Irvine]
    • [1551] Capacitive immunosensor for C-reactive protein quantification
      Authors: Christos Sapsanis, Shilpa Sivashankar, Hesham Omran, Ulrich Buttner, Khaled Salama
    • [1886] CMOS Impedance Spectroscopy Sensor Array with Synchronous Voltage-to-Frequency Converters
      Authors: Areeb Ali, Neelanjana Pal, Peter M. Levine
    • [1922] A Low Power Frequency Synthesizer for Biosensor Applications in the MedRadio Band
      Authors: Abhiram Reddy Gundla, Tom Chen,
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (9:50 - 10:50)
  • Wireless Systems (Room 322) [Chair: Juan Montiel-Nelson, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]
    • [1214] High Efficiency Delta-Sigma Transmitter Architecture with Gate Bias Modulation for Wireless Applications
      Authors: Maryam Jouzdani, Fadhel Ghannouchi
    • [1776] TOWARD FAST LOW POWER ADAPTIVE SPIKE SORTING VLSI CHIP DESIGN FOR WIRELESS BCI IMPLANTS
      Authors: Zaghloul Saad Zaghloul, Magdy Bayoumi
    • [1866] Asynchronous Communication for Wireless Sensors Using Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio
      Authors: Qisong Hu, Wei Tang, Chen Yi, Joerg Kliewer
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (9:50 - 10:50)
  • Special Session: Silicon Photonics and Optical Transceivers II (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Cheng Li, Hewlett-Packard Labs]
    • [1949] A Comprehensive Design Approach for a MZM Based PAM-4 Silicon Photonic Transmitter
      Authors: Kehan Zhu, Vishal Saxena, Xinyu Wu
    • [1955] Adaptively-Tunable RF Photonic Filters
      Authors: Shengchang Cai, Gihoon Choo, Ehsan Zhian Tabasy, Binhao Wang, Kamran Entesari, Samuel Palermo
    • [1958] 56 Gb/s PAM-4 Optical Receiver Frontend in an Advanced FinFET Process
      Authors: Kunzhi Yu, Cheng Li, Tsung-Ching Huang, Ashkan Seyedi, Dacheng Zhou, Christopher Wilson, Daniel A. Berkram, Samuel Palermo, Jonathan Q. Smela, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond Beausoleil
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (10:55 - 11:55)
  • Power Electronics (Room 300) [Chair: Igor Filanovsky, University of Alberta]
    • [1026] An Asymmetric VHF Self-Oscillating DC-DC Converter with Integrated Transformer
      Authors: R. Akbar, I.M. Filanovsky, J.K. Jarvenhaara, N.T. Tchamov
    • [1674] A Robust Cross-Regulation-Suppressed Single-Inductor Multiple-Output DC-DC Converter with Duty-Regulated Comparator Control
      Authors: Yanqi Zheng, Marco Ho, Ka Nang Leung, Jianping Guo, Hua Chen
    • [1893] The Complete Model of High Efficient Drive System for Electric Vehicles
      Authors: Austing Gagnon, Brandon Henry, Abdullah Eroglu
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (10:55 - 11:55)
  • Communication Circuits II (Room 304) [Chair: Ioana Triandaf, United States Naval Research Laboratory]
    • [1089] Hysteresis-Induced Chaotic Dynamics in a Transmission Line Model
      Authors: Ioana Triandaf
    • [1215] Optimization of Antenna Beam pattern in Ad Hoc Networks for Optimal Global Performance
      Authors: Vinay B. Ramakrishnaiah, Robert F. Kubichek, Suresh Muknahallipatna
    • [1784] Utilization of Exponentiated Amplitude Spectrum for Speech Enhancement in Highly Noisy Environments
      Authors: Emiko Abe, Tetsuya Shimamura
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (10:55 - 11:55)
  • Optical Biosensors (Room 308) [Chair: Ana Gabriela Correa Mena, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics]
    • [1448] Silicate Overcoat Layers for the Improvement of PECVD SiO2 Optofluidic Waveguides
      Authors: Matthew A. Stott, Thomas Wall, Erik Hamilton, Roger Chu, Aaron R. Hawkins, Damla Ozcelik, Joshua Parks, Gopikrishnan G. Meena, Holger Schmidt
    • [1450] Materials and Microfabrication Processes for ARROW-based Optofluidic Biosensors
      Authors: Thomas Wall, Joshua Parks, Holger Schmidt, Aaron R. Hawkins
    • [1880] Measuring Arc Dynamics Using a Slab Coupled Optical Sensor
      Authors: Rex King, Nikola Stan, Freddy Seng, LeGrand Shumway, Richard Selfridge, Stephen Schultz
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (10:55 - 11:55)
  • Packaging (Room 322) [Chair: Juan Montiel-Nelson, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]
    • [1310] Contactless Detection of Faulty TSV in 3D IC via Capacitive Coupling
      Authors: Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Rashid Rashidzadeh, Esam-Abdel Raheem
    • [1384] A Contactless Testing Methodology for Pre-bond Interposer
      Authors: Qin Wang, Jianfei Jiang, Weifeng He, Weiguang Sheng, Zhigang Mao
    • [1787] Design of Compact Packaged Switched Reconfigurable Multi-Band BPF Using LTCC Technology
      Authors: A. M. Elelimy, A. M. El-Tager, A. G. Sobih
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (10:55 - 11:55)
  • Image Processing I (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Peter Stubberud, UNLV]
    • [1309] A new image stream encryption technique
      Authors: Firas Hassan, Michael Limbird, Vishwanath Ullagaddi, Vijay Devabhaktuni
    • [1581] FPGA Emulation of a Spike-Based, Stochastic System for Real-time Image Dewarping
      Authors: Jamal Lottier Molin, Tomas Figliolia, Kayode Sanni, Isidoros Doxas, Andreas Andreou, Ralph Etienne-Cummings
    • [1790] A Global Human Action, Facial and Gestures Recognition Algorithm Employing Multiple Features Extraction and CCA Classification
      Authors: Ehab H. El-Shazly, Moataz M. Abdelwahab
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (14:10 - 15:10)
  • Posters II (Ballrom C) [Chair: Jake Baker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas]
    • [1019] Concise Thermal to Electrical Parameters Extraction of Thermoelectric Generator for Spice Modeling
      Authors: Yacouba Moumouni, R. Jacob Baker
    • [1020] Improved SPICE Modeling and Analysis of a Thermoelectric Module
      Authors: Yacouba Moumouni, R. Jacob Baker
    • [1457] Supervised Facial Recognition Based on Eigenanalysis of Multiresolution and Independent Features
      Authors: Ahmed Aldhahab, George Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
    • [1602] A Design Flow To Quantify And Limit Multiple Patterning Effects
      Authors: Mohammed Harb, Mohamed Dessouky
    • [1648] Efficient Design Methodology for Application Specific Integrated Algorithm Systems (ASIAS)
      Authors: Neeraj Magotra, Jon Downing, Jason Rotondo
    • [1691] Proposal of LED-based Peeping Prevention System
      Authors: Kyosuke Kageyama, Kohei Sugiyama, Takeshi Kumaki, Takeshi Fujino
    • [1696] A One Zener Diode, One Memristor Crossbar Architecture for a Write-Time-Based PUF
      Authors: Timothy Potteiger, William H. Robinson
    • [1702] Window Length Effect on Cross Frequency Coupling in an EEG Processing Circuit
      Authors: Philip Davis, Charles Creusere, Wei Tang
    • [1788] Delta DICE: A Double Node Upset Resilient Latch
      Authors: Nikolaos Eftaxiopoulos, Nicholas Axelos, Georgios Zervakis, Kostas Tsoumanis, Kiamal Pekmestzi
    • [1820] UEFI USB Bus Initialization Verification Using Colored Petri Nets
      Authors: Rongyang Liu, José G. Delgado-Frias, Doug Boyce, Rahul Khanna
    • [1863] Particle Trapping in Electrostatically Actuated Nanofluidic Barriers
      Authors: John M. Stout, Suresh Kumar, Aaron R. Hawkins, Adam T. Woolley
    • [1901] Effect of Flicker Noise on SEIR for Accurate ADC Linearity Testing
      Authors: Yuming Zhuang, Tao Chen, Shravan Chaganti, Degang Chen
    • [1941] Microcontroller-based Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Wearable Health Monitoring Systems
      Authors: Purva Bhatnagar, Fred Beyette Jr.
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (15:10 - 16:30)
  • Digital Signal Processing II (Room 300) [Chair: Peter Stubberud, UNLV]
    • [1049] Reduced-Latency Architecture for Image Smoothing Exponential Filters
      Authors: Firas Hassan, Nathan Pax, Sami Khorbotly
    • [1248] Characterization of RNS Multiply-Add Units for Power Efficient DSP
      Authors: Gian Carlo Cardarilli, Alberto Nannarelli, Marco Re
    • [1568] Performance of Multi-Parents Genetic Algorithms (MPGA) for IIR Adaptive System Identification
      Authors: G. Sun, X. Shao, and W. K. Jenkins
    • [1812] Real-Time VLSI Architecture for Palm Rejection Using Wronskian Determinant
      Authors: Abu M Baker, Yingtao Jiang
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (15:10 - 16:30)
  • Optics (Room 304) [Chair: Mohammad Sayeh, Southern Illinois University]
    • [1355] Generation and Distribution of Microwave Signals by using Optoelectronic Oscillators
      Authors: Ana Gabriela Correa Mena, Pablo Hernández-Nava, Ignacio Enrique Zaldívar-Huerta, Alejandro García-Juárez, Amanda Salas Caridad, Jorge Rodríguez-Asomoza, Min W. Lee
    • [1712] Rubidium Diffusion in Microscale Spectroscopy and Slow Light Platforms
      Authors: Matthieu Giraud-Carrier, Cameron Hill, Trevor Decker, Aaron R. Hawkins, Jennifer A. Black, Soren Almquist, Holger Schmidt
    • [1817] Design and Fabrication of a Color Multiplexing LiNbO3 Device
      Authors: Christopher Leach, S. McLaughlin, A. Henrie, B. Haymore, D. E. Smalley
    • [1923] High-Speed Graphene Based Quantum-Optical Interconnect Design
      Authors: Ritesh Chowdri, Nahid M. Hossain, Masud H Chowdhury
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (15:10 - 16:30)
  • Bio Systems (Room 308) [Chair: Vishal Saxena, Boise State University]
    • [1559] Design of a Biofeedback Device for Gait Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Patients
      Authors: I-Hung Khoo, Panadda Marayong, Vennila Krishnan, Michael Nico Balagtas, Omar Rojas
    • [1617] Single Ion Channel CMOS electrochemical instrument for high throughput recording arrays
      Authors: Haitao Li, Sina Parsnejad, Andrew J. Mason
    • [1760] A Real-time and Portable Sign Language Translation System
      Authors: Lih-Jen Kau, Wan-Lin Su, Pei-Ju Yu, Sin-Jhan Wei
    • [1966] A Novel Normalization Technique for Multimodal Biometric Systems
      Authors: Waziha Kabir, M. Omair Ahmad, Dr. Swamy
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (15:10 - 16:30)
  • Analog Circuits II (Room 322) [Chair: Paul Furth, New Mexico State University]
    • [1298] Analog Circuit Performance Bound Estimation Based on Extreme Value Theory
      Authors: Minghua Li, Zhaori Bi, Dian Zhou, Xuan Zeng
    • [1313] Translinear Circuit for 2-D Analog Error Correction
      Authors: Robert M. Taylor Jr.
    • [1432] Chopper Stabilized Sub 1V Reference Voltage in 65nm CMOS
      Authors: Rakesh Kumar Palani, Aravindhan Rangarajan, Ramesh Harjani
    • [1943] A Voltage Buffer Compensation Using a Flipped Voltage Follower in a Two-Stage CMOS Op-amp
      Authors: Paul M. Furth, Mahender Manda, Punith R. Surkanti, Sri Harsh Pakala
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (15:10 - 16:30)
  • Σ - Δ Techniques (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Onur Tigli, University of Miami]
    • [1077] On the Use of Passive Circuits to Implement LC-based Band-Pass CT Sigma-Delta Modulators
      Authors: Gerardo Molina Salgado, Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, José M. de la Rosa
    • [1261] A 150 MHz Bandwidth Continuous-Time ΔΣ Modulator in 28 nm CMOS with DAC Calibration
      Authors: Rui Wang, Yang You, Guoying Wu, Xiaoke Wen, Jinghong Chen, Kamran Azadet, Ping Gui
    • [1423] Automatic filter calibration for tunable bandpass delta-sigma modulators
      Authors: Jingjing Hu, A. H. M. van-Roermund, J. A. Hegt , S. F. Ouzounov
    • [1802] DAC Mismatch Shaping for Quadrature Sigma-Delta Data Converters
      Authors: Sandipan Kundu, Subhanshu Gupta, David J. Allstot, Jeyanandh Paramesh
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (16:35 - 17:55)
  • Power Amplifiers (Room 300) [Chair: Paul Furth, New Mexico State University]
    • [1347] On-Chip Input and Ground Ringing Suppression in High-Frequency Buck Converters
      Authors: Yongjie Jiang, Ayman Fayed
    • [1412] A CMOS Power Amplifier with 180° Hybrid On-Chip Coupler for 4G Applications
      Authors: Mahima Arrawatia, Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Girish Kumar
    • [1785] A Quadband Concurrent Linear/Efficient Power Amplifier for Multiband Wireless Applications
      Authors: Bassem M Abdelrahman, Hesham N. Ahmed
    • [1948] Novel Single-Input Single-Output Two-Box Polar Behavioral Model for Envelope Tracking Power Amplifiers
      Authors: Oualid Hammi
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (16:35 - 17:55)
  • ADCs II (Room 304) [Chair: Allen Waters, Oregon State University]
    • [1029] A Digital Calibration Technique for Folding-Integration/Cyclic Cascaded ADC
      Authors: Tongxi Wang, Amin M. R. Khandaker, Keita Yasutomi, Shoji Kawahito
    • [1428] Simplified Volterra Series Based Background Calibration for High Speed High Resolution Pipelined ADCs
      Authors: Guanzhong Huang, Bei Peng, Anding Zhu
    • [1816] Practical Modeling of Comparator Metastability for Conventional and LSB-first SAR ADCs
      Authors: Allen Waters, Un-Ku Moon
    • [1938] A Simple Ramp Generator with Level Spreading for SEIR ADC BIST Circuit
      Authors: Hao Meng, Degang Chen
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (16:35 - 17:55)
  • Photonics (Room 308) [Chair: Aaron Hawkins, Brigham Young University]
    • [1023] System parameter analysis on devices with Bi-stable characteristics
      Authors: Hossein Sarafraz, Mohammad R. Sayeh
    • [1430] An optical clock receiver based on an injection locked ring oscillator featuring auto-calibration
      Authors: Robert Polster, Jose-Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez, Ivan Miro-Panades, Eric Cassan
    • [1875] High Voltage Measurements Using Slab Coupled Optical Sensors (SCOS)
      Authors: LeGrand Shumway, Nikola Stan, Freddy Seng, Rex King, Richard Selfridge, Stephen Schultz
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (16:35 - 17:55)
  • Special Session: Network on Chip (Room 322) [Chair: Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University]
    • [1160] Improving Crosstalk Resilience with Wavelength Spacing in Photonic Crossbar-based Network-on-Chip Architectures
      Authors: Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Sudeep Pasricha
    • [1919] Energy-Efficient NoC with Variable Channel Width
      Authors: Cheng Li, Paul Ampadu
    • [1951] Improving EDP in Wireless NoC-Enabled Multicore Chips via DVFS Pruning
      Authors: Wonje Choi, Shervin Hajiamini,Ryan Gary Kim, Armin Rahimi,Niloofar Hezarjaribi, Partha Pratim Pande, Behrooz Shirazi
    • [1952] Cyber-Physical Systems for Personalized and Precise Medicine
      Authors: Paul Bogdan, Yuankun Xue
Tuesday August 4, 2015 (16:35 - 17:55)
  • Equalizers (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M University]
    • [1130] An Input Pole Tuned Switching Equalization Scheme for High-speed Serial Links
      Authors: Sanquan Song, Jian Xu, Fengxiang Cai, Xin Ma, Zibing Yang, Matthew Becker, Byungsub Kim, Larry Tate, Samuel Palermo, Bill Bowhill
    • [1195] A 40Gb/s 39mW 3-tap Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer in 65nm CMOS
      Authors: Weidong Cao, Ziqiang Wang, Dongmei Li, Xuqiang Zheng, Fule Li, Chun Zhang, Zhihua Wang
    • [1349] A 10-Gb/s Receiver with a Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer and 1-Tap Decision-Feedback Equalizer
      Authors: Yongsuk Choi, Yong-Bin Kim
    • [1561] An 8Gbps Discrete Time Linear Equalizer in 40nm CMOS Technology
      Authors: Ahmed Ismail, Sameh Ibrahim, Mohamed Dessouky
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (9:50 - 11:30)
  • Ocsillators (Room 300) [Chair: Marvin Onabajo, Northeastern University]
    • [1010] Phase Calibration in Mutual Injection-Pulled Quadrature Oscillators
      Authors: Ali Nikoofard, Siavash Kananian, Ali Fotowat-Ahmady
    • [1044] A Low-Power Temperature-Compensated Relaxation Oscillator for Built-in Test Signal Generation
      Authors: Li Xu, Marvin Onabajo
    • [1112] Compensation for Imperfect Switching in a Chaotic Hybrid Oscillator Circuit
      Authors: Ned J. Corron
    • [1867] A 1.1-8.2 GHz tuning range In-phase and Quadrature output DCO design in 90 nm CMOS technology
      Authors: Eswar Raju Suraparaju, Pushpak Vasanth Rayudu Arja, Saiyu Ren
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (9:50 - 11:30)
  • PLLs (Room 304) [Chair: Juan Montiel-Nelson, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]
    • [1185] A Phase-Error Cancellation Technique for Fast-Lock PLL
      Authors: Zhaoming Ding, Haiqi Liu, Qiang Li
    • [1520] Bitwidth-Aware Register Allocation and Binding for Clock Period Minimization
      Authors: Keisuke Inoue, Mineo Kaneko
    • [1552] Modeling and Design of a 0.8-30 GHz Tunable Inductor-less Divide-by-2 Frequency Divider with Digital Frequency Calibration
      Authors: Peng Gao, Xiaoyan Gui, Zicheng Liu
    • [1822] A wide frequency range series-parallel coupled quadrature phase injection locked frequency divider
      Authors: Mohammed Umar Shaikh, Sivaramakrishna Rudrapati, Aparna Nanaware, Shalabh Gupta
    • [1826] A Precise 360-Range Phase Detector for fdNIRS Application Using a Pair of XNORs
      Authors: Siavash Yazdi, Albert Cerussi, Michael Green
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (9:50 - 11:30)
  • Nano Devices (Room 308) [Chair: Onur Tigli, University of Miami]
    • [1111] Analytical Analysis of the Contact Resistance (Rc) of Metal-MoS2 Interface
      Authors: Munem Hossain, Muhammad Sanaullah, Hamid Bin Yousuf, Azzedin Es-Sakhi, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1144] Novel charge pump converter with Tunnel FET devices for ultra-low power energy harvesting sources
      Authors: David Cavalheiro, Francesc Moll, Stanimir Valtchev
    • [1167] New Three Dimensional Doping Profile for Devices in Subthreshold Circuit
      Authors: Munem Hossain, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1570] Subthreshold Swing Characteristics of Multilayer MoS2 Tunnel FET
      Authors: Muhammad Sanaullah, Masud H Chowdhury
    • [1962] Spintronics for Associative Computation and Hardware Security
      Authors: Swaroop Ghosh, Rekha Govindraj
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (9:50 - 11:30)
  • Processor and Memory Design (Room 322) [Chair: Justin Aguilar, Intel Corp.]
    • [1187] Design and Implementation of Area Efficient Multiported Memories with Write Conflict Resolution
      Authors: Akshata Anil Muddebihal, Carla Purdy
    • [1500] Single-ended 6T Sub-threshold SRAM with Horizontal Local Bit-Lines
      Authors: Sukneet Basuta, Maitham Shams
    • [1679] Process Variation Aware Dynamic Power Management in Multicore Systems with Extended Range Voltage/Frequency Scaling
      Authors: Shoumik Maiti, Nishit Kapadia, Sudeep Pasricha
    • [1015] Physical Design and Implementation of POWER8™ (P8) Server Class Processor
      Authors: Mozammel Hossain, Eric Fluhr, Allen Hall, Vikas Agarwal
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (9:50 - 11:30)
  • Image Processing II (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Wasfy Mikhael, University of Central Florida]
    • [1180] High-Throughput Hardware Implementation for Motion Estimation in HEVC Encoder
      Authors: Ahmed Medhat, Ahmed Shalaby, Mohammed S. Sayed
    • [1713] Multi-Feature Criteria with Fuzzy Logic Pattern Recognition for Hand Gesture Classification
      Authors: Linda Murphy, Ka C. Cheok
    • [1815] Improving Video-Based Resting Heart Rate Estimation: A Comparison of Two Methods
      Authors: Jeehyun Choe, Dahjung Chung, A. J. Schwichtenberg, Edward J. Delp
    • [1884] Facial Recognition Employing Transform Domain Mutual Principal Component Analysis
      Authors: Ramy C.G.Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, George Atia
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (13:00 - 14:20)
  • Special Session: Circuits for Enhancing Access to Radio Spectrum (EARS) and Phased-Array Radar (Room 300) [Chair: Nilan Udayanga, University of Akron]
    • [1243] Tunable N-Path RF Front-end Filter with an Adaptive Integrated Notch for FDD/Co-Existence
      Authors: M. Naimul Hasan, Sudhir Aggarwal, Qun Jane Gu, Xiaoguang Liu
    • [1680] A 24-GHz Low-cost Continuous Beam Steering Phased Array for Indoor Smart Radar
      Authors: Zhengyu Peng, Lixin Ran, Changzhi Li
    • [1849] FPGA-based Network-Resonance Applebaum Adaptive Arrays for Directional Spectrum Sensing
      Authors: Nilan Udayanga, Arjuna Madanayake, Chamith Wijenayake
    • [1850] Architecture Comparison for Concurrent Multi-Band Linear Power Amplifiers
      Authors: Zhen Zhang, Yifei Li, Nathan M. Neihart
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (13:00 - 14:20)
  • Hardware Vulnerability (Room 304) [Chair: Falah Awwad, United Arab Emirates University]
    • [1616] Assessment of NAND Based Ring Oscillator for Hardware Trojan Detection
      Authors: Tamzidul Hoque, Mohammed Niamat, Muslim Mustapa
    • [1724] A Slew Rate Enhancement Technique for Fully Differential Amplifier Without Inducing Trojan State
      Authors: Chongli Cai, Degang Chen
    • [1798] Tenacious Hardware Trojans Due to High Temperature in Middle Tiers of 3-D ICs
      Authors: Syed Rafay Hasan, Siraj F. Mossa, Omar Elkeelany, Falah Awwad
    • [1808] Hardware Tojans in Asynchronous FIFO-Buffers: From Clock Domain Crossing Perspective
      Authors: Syed Rafay Hasan, Siraj F. Mossa, Ciro Junior, Falah Awwad*
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (13:00 - 14:20)
  • Analog Filters (Room 308) [Chair: Wei Tang, New Mexico State University]
    • [1445] Derivative-Free Active-RC Elliptic Filter Using Cascade of Biquads in 28 nm CMOS
      Authors: Shankar Thirunakkarasu, Frank Singor, Jie Fang
    • [1860] Analysis of Discrete-Time Charge-Domain Complex Bandpass Filter with Accurately Tunable Center Frequency
      Authors: Yang Xu, Un-Ku Moon
    • [1926] Implementing S-Transform in Continuous-Time Using Non Linear Sequence Transformation
      Authors: Goutham Makkena, Muralikrishna Sai Sriram, M.B. Srinivas
    • [1927] A Delta Sigma Based Finite Impulse Response Filter for EEG Signal Processing
      Authors: Yifei Liu, Wei Tang
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (13:00 - 14:20)
  • Converters II (Room 322) [Chair: Igor Filanovsky, University of Alberta]
    • [1578] An Area Efficient 10-bit Time Mode Hybrid DAC With Current Settling Error Compensation
      Authors: Nivethithaa Ravikumar, Zaniar Hoseini, Kye-Shin Lee, S. I. Hariharan, Yong-Min Lee
    • [1642] 0.25-4 ns 185 MS/s 4-bit Pulse-Shrinking Time-to-Digital Converter in 130 nm CMOS Using a 2-Step Conversion Scheme
      Authors: Young Jun Park, Fei Yuan
    • [1646] A 12.88 MS/s 0.28 pJ/conv.step 8-bit Stage-Interleaved Pulse-Shrinking Time-to-Digital Converter in 130 nm CMOS
      Authors: Young Jun Park, Fei Yuan
    • [1832] Overload Analysis of Continuous Time Sigma Delta Modulators
      Authors: Kyung Kang
Wednesday August 5, 2015 (13:00 - 14:20)
  • Image Processing III (Senate Chambers 204) [Chair: Jake Baker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas]
    • [1387] Pixel Truncation based on a Statistical Analysis for Low Power Block Matching
      Authors: Minsu Choi, Kyung Rae Kim, Ik Joon Chang, Jinsang Kim
    • [1621] Robust Fabric Defect Detection Algorithm Using Entropy Filtering and Minimum Error Thresholding
      Authors: Mohammed S. Sayed
    • [1765] Perception-based Video Coding with Human Faces Detection and Enhancement in H.264/AVC Systems
      Authors: Lih-Jen Kau, Ming-Xian Lee
    • [1872] Surface-Based Morphometric Analysis of Hippocampal Subfields in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
      Authors: Shan Cong, Maher Rizkalla, Paul Salama, John West, Shannon Risacher, Andrew Saykin, Li Shen


Welcome from
Memorial Reception Host:
Prof. Ken Jenkins, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Scott Bioengineering Building
Date & Time: August 2, 2015 (18:30- 20:00)

Five-minute Video Presentation

Memorial Speakers:
1. Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, USC
2. Emeritus Prof. Igor Filanovsky, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
3. Prof. Jose Silva-Martinez, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
4. Prof. Magdy Bayoumi, Department of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
5. Prof. Sherif Michael, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Naval Postgradaute School

A reception will follow the presentation with light hors d'oeuvres. All attendees registered for the full conference (both student and non-student rate) are welcome to attend the reception.
Invited Talk: The Science of Brewing Beer
Speaker: Tony Rau, Odell Brewing
Location: Ballrooms C & D
Date & Time: August 4, 2015 (18:30 - 22:00)

Tony Rau is the lab manager at Odell Brewing Company. He started out homebrewing in college and fell in love with craft beer. While pursing a degree in biochemistry at CSU, he started interning in the brewhouse for Odell and worked his way into the lab after graduating. One of his main job functions is managing the yeast for the brewery as well as growing bacteria for special projects and sours. He also has helped with recipe development for a couple of beers as well as being a member of the Quality Assurance team.