PMIC brings specific, complementary expertise in power conversion circuits and systems, integrated circuits, passive components, and fabrication under the scientific leadership of:
Professor Sullivan received his BS in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining the engineering faculty at Dartmouth, he worked as a power electronics design engineer for Lutron Electronics Company. He has published over 180 technical papers in magnetics, power electronics, electric machine modeling and control, and energy efficiency. He holds 42 patents, was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and an IEEE PELS Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award, and is an IEEE Fellow.
Research Areas: Electromagnetic modeling and design of passive power electronics components; micro-fabricated magnetic components; nanocomposite magnetic materials
Professor Stauth received his MS and PhD degrees from UC Berkeley where he studied integrated circuits and high-frequency power electronics. He has worked or consulted for companies in automotive, consumer, and industrial areas and co-founded two companies in the renewable energy space. Stauth joined the engineering faculty at Dartmouth in 2011, is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and the Thayer School Excellence in Teaching Award, and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Solid State Circuit Letters.
Research Areas: High-frequency and chip-scale power electronics; sensor interfaces and energy scavenging; integrated circuit design
Professor Mercier received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2006, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
He is currently a Full Professor and Vice Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where he is also the co-Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors and the Site Director of the Power Management Integration Center. His research interests include the design of energy-efficient microsystems, focusing on the design of RF circuits, power converters, and sensor interfaces for miniaturized systems and biomedical applications.
Research Areas: Integrated circuits design, energy harvesting, wide-dynamic range power conversion, hybrid DC-DC converter topologies.
Professor Le received his B.S. degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam (2003), M.S. from KAIST, Korea (2006), and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (2013), all in Electrical Engineering. In 2012, he co-founded and served as the CTO at Lion Semiconductor until October 2015. The company was acquired by Cirrus Logic in 2021. Previously, Dr. Le also held R&D and consulting positions at Oracle, Intel, Rambus, JDA Tech in Korea, and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in Vietnam. He was with the University of Colorado Boulder from 2016 to 2019. In September 2019, he joined the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Le received a 2021 NSF CAREER Award, a 2012-2013 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Pre-doctoral Achievement Award, and the UC Berkeley's 2013 Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation. He authored three book chapters, over 60 journal and conference papers including a Best Paper Award, and is an inventor with 21 U.S. patents (19 granted and 2 pending). He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), a member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Power Supply On Chip (PwrSoC) and a Vice Chair of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). In 2019 to 2023, he served as the Chair of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Technical Committee on Power Components, Integration, and Power ICs (IEEE PELS TC2).
Research Areas: miniaturized/on-die power conversions, large conversion ratios, smart power delivery
Professor Scheideler received BS degrees in Electrical Engineering andBiomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD degree in ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he studiedsemiconductor devices and thin film electronics. Before joining the engineeringfaculty at Dartmouth in 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at StanfordUniversity in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Prof. Scheideler’s research groupdevelops multifunctional materials and nanomanufacturing methods forhigh-performance flexible and hybrid electronics, including low-power sensorsand energy harvesting for wireless devices.
Research Areas: 3D nanomanufacturing; low-power sensors; flexible and wearable electronics; energy harvesting; wireless devices
Professor Li received her PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. Her primary research interests are in the area of mechanics of advanced materials, involving multiscale/multiphysics modelling, integrated computational/experimental approaches for next generation material design, and application of material science and solid mechanics in advanced manufacturing. Li has worked on research projects supported by the US Army Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, NSF CCMD (Center for Computational Materials Design) and collaborated with industry partners including Boeing, Gulfstream and GE. Outside her lab and classroom, she likes classical music, reading and exploring different cultures and food.
Research Areas: Multiscale modeling; fracture/fatigue analysis; process-microstructure-property-performance relation; data-driven material design
Professor Asbeck received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. He worked at Rockwell International Science Center, where he was involved in the development of high speed devices and circuits using III-V compounds, particularly heterojunction bipolar transistors. In 1991, he joined UCSD, where he is an emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and received the IEEE Sarnoff Award for his work on HBTs.
Research Areas: High frequency transistor technologies, particularly GaN and CMOS-SOI; microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, particularly power amplifiers; and power electronics, including the development of dynamic power supplies for envelope tracking in power amplifiers
Professor Rosing is holder of the Fratamico Endowed Chair, IEEE Fellow, and a director of System Energy Efficiency Lab at UCSD. Her research interests are in power management, energy efficient computing, computer architecture, and cyber-physical systems. Prior to coming to UCSD, she was a research scientist at HP Labs while also leading research efforts at Stanford University. She finished her PhD in EE in 2001 at Stanford, concurrently with finishing her Masters in Engineering Management. Her PhD topic was dynamic management of power consumption. Prior to pursuing the PhD, she worked as a senior design engineer at Altera Corporation.
Research Areas: Low-power system design; power, thermal and reliability management; battery optimization; architecture, processing in memory and in storage