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Tzu-Chien Hsueh leads the Integrated Communication Circuits Lab at Â鶹´«Ã½. The primary research objective is to develop analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits in advanced CMOS, monolithic, and heterogeneous process technologies for the broadband applications of high-speed low-power communication systems, data centers, Ethernet, and cloud computing networks. The lab's major circuit research topics include wireline electrical/optical transceiver analog front-ends, channel equalizations, clock-and-data recovery, clock distributions, data-conversion circuits, silicon photonics, on-chip performance analyzers, switch-capacitor filters, audio-band transceivers, and digital/mixed signal processing techniques. Hsueh's research philosophy emphasizes practical design innovations, solid theoretical analyses, coherent system performances, and robust circuit implementations.

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Tzu-Chien Hsueh joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2018 as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively; he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. From 2001 to 2006, Hsueh was a senior mixed-signal circuit design engineer in Hsinchu, Taiwan; he was working on high-performance audio-band transceivers and Gigabit Ethernet I/O communication systems. From 2010 to 2018, Hsueh was successively a Senior Research Scientist in Intel Lab Signaling Research and Senior Analog Engineer in Intel I/O Circuit Technology, Hillsboro, Oregon. He was the technical lead of the multiple Intel high-speed wireline communication research projects, including 200Gb/s SerDes Links, 7nm CMOS low-power Memory I/Os, ADC-DSP based receivers, and USB Type-C converged I/O transmitters.

In recognition of Hsueh’s industry experiences, he has been invited to serve on the Patent Committee of Intel Intellectual Property (Intel IP) and the Technical Committee of Intel Design & Test Technology Conference (DTTC). Currently, he serves on the Technical Program Committee of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and the mentoring program of IEEE Solid-State Society (SSCS). Hsueh received multiple Intel Division and Academy awards from 2012 to 2018, and he is a recipient of the IEEE 2015 Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) Best Paper Award.

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