64th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Top Three Student Paper Contest Awardees:


First Place Award

Farnaz Fahimi Hanzaaee
University College London, U.K.
for the paper
"A DC Model for Organic Electrochemical Transistors and Analysis of Their Performance As Voltage Amplifiers"

Second Place Award

Abdul Rehman Javed 
Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany 
for the paper
“Mixed-Signal Receiver Baseband Slice for High-Data-Rate Communication Using 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology"

Third Place Award

Tzu-Hsuan (Debbie) Chou 
Oregon State University, USA  
for the paper
"Linear and Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Dual-Mode CMOS Optical Sensor with High Frame Rate Operation"

Seven Honorable Mention Awardees:


Honorable Mention Award

Sudhanva Vasishta 
The University of Texas at Austin, USA  
for the paper
"A Novel Low-Power Single-Step Subranging Open-Loop Sigma-Delta ADC"

Honorable Mention Award

Kassen Dautov 
Ajman University, Ajman, UAE 
for the paper
“Analysis and Experimental Validation of Circularly Slotted Near-Field WPT Systems "

Honorable Mention Award

Guillermo Gabriel Garayar-Leyva 
Texas A&M University, USA 
for the paper
“Square-Wave-Based Multi-Tone Generator for Sleep-Improving Brain Stimulation "

Honorable Mention Award

Amirhossein Moshrefi 
École Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada  
for the paper
“An Efficient Method to Enhance the Quality of Ultrasound Medical Images"

Honorable Mention Award

Shaan Sengupta 
Oregon State University, USA  
for the paper
“A Multichannel Analyzer with Programmable Energy Bins for Gamma Ray Spectroscopy"

Honorable Mention Award

Abdullah Al-Amaren 
Concordia University, Canada 
for the paper
“Edge Map Extraction of an Image Based on the Gradient of its Binary Versions"

Honorable Mention Award

Min Chen 
Fudan University, China 
for the paper
"A Hardware-Efficient Calibrator for SAR-Pipelined ADCs with a Layer-Based Sharing Neural Network"