Woogeun Rhee
Woogeun Rhee received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2001.
From 1997 to 2001, he was with Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, CA, where he was a Principal Engineer and developed low-power low-cost fractional-N synthesizers. From 2001 to 2006, he was with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY and worked on clocking area for high-speed I/O serial links, including low-jitter phase-locked-loops, clock-and-data recovery circuits, and on-chip testability circuits. In August 2006, he joined the faculty of the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University, China as an Associate Professor, and became a Full Professor in December 2011. His current research interests include clock/frequency generation systems for wireline and wireless communications and low-power transceiver systems for wireless body area networks (WBAN) and IoT applications. He holds 23 U.S. patents.

§ IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017, Solid-State Circuits Society)
§ Associate Editors IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits (O-JSSC, 2019-), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, 2012-2018), IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Part-II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II, 2008-2009), Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS, 2009- )
§ Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, Special Issue in November 2012 and November 2013).
§ Lead Guest Editor for the special issue of Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE, 2011)
§ Technical Program Committees of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC, 2012-2016), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC, 2015- ), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC, 2008- ), CMOS Emerging Technology Workshop (2011- ), International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT, 2011), VLSI Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT, 2009- ), Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia, 2010), International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC, 2010), Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC, 2009)
§ Advanced Employee Award from Tsinghua University (校内先进工作者, 2012)
§ IBM Faculty Award from IBM, USA (2007)

Research Interests
§ Energy-efficient short-range transceivers for mobile IoT and WBAN
§ Ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers for secure wireless connectivity
§ Low-noise clocking and frequency generation for wireline and wireless systems
§ Mixed-signal circuits and systems

Ph.D. Thesis
Multi-bit delta-sigma modulation technique for fractional-N frequency synthesizers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2000.

Teaching

§ Communication Systems and Circuits
§ PLL Design and Clock/Frequency Generation (Graduate course)

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Publications

Address

Institute of Microelectronics, Rm. A307, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: +8610-6279-4078
e-mail: wrhee@tsinghua.edu.cn