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Prof. Tony Chan Carusone directs research at ISL.  He has taught and researched integrated circuits and systems at the University of Toronto since completing his Ph.D. here in 2002. He and his graduate students have received eight best-paper awards at leading conferences for their work on chip-to-chip and optical communication circuits, analog-to-digital conversion, and precise clock generation. Prof. Chan Carusone was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and has co-authored the classic textbooks “Analog Integrated Circuit Design” along with D. Johns and K. Martin, and “Microelectronic Circuits” along with A. Sedra and K.C. Smith. In 2022, he was named a Fellow of the IEEE for “contributions to integrated circuits for digital communication”.

Current ISL Members

Name: Bahaa Radi
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research: Optical Communication Receiver Design and Optimization
Contact: bahaa.radi@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Ahmad Hassan
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research: Integrated Circuit Architectures for Photonic Computing
Contact: ahmad.hassan@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Foad Arvani
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research: 3D Imaging
Contact: foad.arvani@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Ming Yang
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Signal Processing for Next-Generation Wireline Communication
Contact: ming.yang@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Wagih Ismail
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Broadband Wireless Receiver A/D Conversion
Contact: wagih.ismail@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Dhruv Patel
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: CMOS Optical Receiver Circuits
Contact: dhruv.patel@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Durand Jarrett-Amor
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Highly Parallel Wireline Communication
Contact: durand.jarrettamor@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Rudraneil Saha
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: CMOS Broadband Wireless Communication Circuits
Contact: rudraneil.saha@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Chris Li
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Contact: zonghao.li@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Deng Pan
Position: M.A.Sc. Candidate
Research: Integrated Circuit Acceleration of Machine Learning
Contact: deng.pan@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Behraz Vatankhahghadim
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Signal Processing for Next Generation Wireline Communication
Contact: behraz.vatankhahghadim@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Kunal Yadav
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Contact: kunal.yadav@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Ali Sadr
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Contact:ali.sadr@isl.utoronto.ca
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Name: Pooya Poolad
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Contact:pooya.poolad@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Bender Yang
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Contact:bender.yang@isl.utoronto.ca

Name: Jiaqi Wu
Position: M.A.Sc. Candidate
Contact:jiaqi.wu@isl.utoronto.ca

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Foad ArvaniPh.D.RO-based TDC Design with Configurable Resolution and Power for SPAD-based TCSPC LiDAR ApplicationsLink to thesis
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Luke WangPh.D.ADC-based Receivers for Wireline CommunicationLink to thesis
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Jeffrey WangPh.D.Adaptive Blocker Cancellation for Wireless ReceiversLink to thesis
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Alireza Sharif-BakhtiarPh.D.Low-Power High Speed Optical Links in CMOSLink to thesis
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Behzad DehlaghiPh.D.Parallel Ultra-Short Reach Die-to-Die LinksLink to thesis
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Shayan ShahramianPh.D.Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalization With Continuous-Time Infinite Impulse Response FiltersLink to thesis
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Amer SamarahPh.D.Improved Phase Detection for Digital Phase Locked LoopsLink to thesis
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Kevin BanovicPh.D.Mixed-Signal Architectures for Spectrum SensingLink to thesis
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Dustin DunwellPh.D.Adaptive Receivers for High-Speed Wireline LinksDownload thesis
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Kentaro YamamotoPh.D.A 1-1-1-1 MASH Delta-Sigma ADC using Dynamic Comparator-based OTAsLink to thesis
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Mike BichanPh.D.Parallel chip-to-chip I/OLink to thesis
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Shahriar ShahramianPh.D.Ultra-high-speed A/D conversionLink to thesis
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Masum HossainPh.D.Low-power Multi-Gbps Wireline CommunicationLink to thesis
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Ahmad DarabihaPh.D.High-throughput low-density parity check decodersDownload thesis
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Faisal MusaPh.D.High-speed baud-rate clock recoveryLink to thesis
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Qingnan YuM.A.Sc.Digital Algorithms for Quantized Analog Signal ProcessingLink to thesis
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Danny ZhangM.A.Sc.A TX Clock Frequency Modulated Side-Channel and a Time-Modulted Phase Interpolator for High-Speed Wireline SystemsLink to thesis
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Dhruv PatelM.A.Sc.Co-packaged 100+ Gbps Optical Communication Receiver Front-ends in FinFET CMOSLink to thesis
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Danial MohammadiM.A.Sc.Continuous-time Pipelined Binary-search Flash ADCLink to thesis
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Paul ChenM.A.Sc.All-digital Calibration Algorithms for the Correction of Static Non-linearities in ADCsLink to thesis
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Yue YinM.A.Sc.The Role of Voltage Regulation in Power Integrity for Multi-Gbps Parallel I/O InterfacesLink to thesis
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Nadeesha AmarasingheM.A.Sc.A Single-ended Simultaneously Bidirectional Transceiver for Ultra-short Reach Die to Die LinksLink to thesis
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Masumi ShibataM.A.Sc.CMOS VCSEL Driver Circuit for 25+Gbps/channel Short-reach Parallel Optical LinksLink to thesis
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Victor KozlovM.A.Sc.Capacitively-Coupled CMOS VCSEL Driver Circuits for Optical CommunicationLink to thesis
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Jeffrey WangM.A.Sc.A 1.25GS/S 8-bit Time-Interleaved C-2C SAR ADC for Wireline Receiver ApplicationsLink to thesis
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Luke WangM.A.Sc.Timing Skew Calibration for Time Interleaved Analog to Digital ConvertersLink to thesis
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Alain RoussonM.A.Sc.A 2-lane 2Gbps optical receiver with integrated photodiodes in 90nm CMOSLink to thesis
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Hemesh YasotharanM.A.Sc.High-performance CMOS photo-receiversLink to thesis
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Tony KaoM.A.Sc.A 5-Gbps Optical Receiver with Monolithically Integrated Photodetector in 0.18-um CMOSDownload thesis
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Peter ParkM.A.Sc.A 4PAM/2PAM coaxial cable receiver analog front-end targeting 40Gb/s in 90-nm CMOSLink to thesis
George NgM.A.Sc.Distributed Circuit Techniques for Equalization of Short Multimode Fiber LinksLink to thesis
Horace ChengM.A.Sc.A 4PAM/2PAM Coaxial Cable Driver Targeting 40Gb/s in 0.13µm CMOSDownload thesis
Jennifer PhamM.A.Sc.Time-interleaved DS-DAC for Broadband Wireless ApplicationsDownload thesis
Kentaro YamamotoM.A.Sc.A programmable delta-sigma ADCDownload thesis
Mike BichanM.A.Sc.Crosstalk-Aware Transmitter Pulse-Shaping for Parallel Chip-to-Chip LinksDownload thesis
Adesh GargM.A.Sc.A 1-tap 40-Gbps look-ahead decision feedback equalizer in SiGe BiCMOSDownload thesis
Jonathan SewterM.A.Sc.Electronic equalization of polarization-mode dispersion in 40-Gb/s optical systemsDownload thesis
Xunjun MoM.Eng.Jitter in CMOS Global Clock DistributionLinkedIn Profile
Sabrina LiaoB.A.Sc.Broadband CMOS Digitally-controlled OscillatorsLinkedIn profile
Michael GeorgasB.A.Sc.A Genetic Algorithm for the Design of Passive Filters and a Distributed AmplifierDownload thesis
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Denis DalyB.A.Sc.Direct GMSK generation using delta-sigma modulationDownload thesis
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Shuai ChenPost-Doctoral FellowOptical CMOS Receiver for VCSEL-Based PAM LinksInstitute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nijwm WaryPost-Doctoral FellowWireline Communication Links and TransceiversIIT Bhubaneswar

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