Post Doctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

About the role

As a Post-Doctoral Researcher, you will support Prof. Yuping Zeng with the frontier of analog circuit design, implementation and characterization, preferably for neuromorphic computing with emerging devices.

Research areas

You can select any of the following research areas that you feel competent on:

• Devices: High-frequency electronic devices (heterojunction bipolar transistors, high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs)); Low-power devices (novel transistors including tunneling field-effect transistors, non-silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, thin film transistors); Light-emitting devices and high-speed detectors
• Circuits: Analog circuits for neuromorphic computing

Major responsibilities

• Plays a key role in the design of analog circuit with emerging devices developed in the group
• Deep understanding of the device physics and the know-how of circuit design
• Device fabrication, characterization, model extraction and apply device model in the circuit design
• Circuit design optimization
• Using Cadence for circuit design and ADS for RF circuit design
• Circuit implementation and characterization
• Plays a key role in helping and guiding graduate students

Qualifications

• PhD required at the time of hire
• 1-year analog circuit design experience preferred
• Know how to design circuit using one or more of the software listed: Cadence; fluent use of LT-Spice, Verilog-A, Python, ADS, ICCAP, etc.
• Know how to perform circuit analysis and characterization