Dr. Huan Hu received the B.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Chengdu, China, in 2013, the M.S. degree from the Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor of School of Microelectronics with Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. He has held industrial positions at Skyworks Solutions and Biotronik/MSEI where he worked on low power circuits and systems for IoT and biomedical applications. His research interests mainly focus on ultra-low power analog/mixed signal integrated circuits and systems for next generation biomedical wearable/implantable devices, artificial intelligence of things. He is an IEEE member and serves as the reviewer for multiple top journals and conferences such as IEEE JSSC, IEEE TBioCAS, IEEE TCAS-I&II, etc.

Dr. Hu welcomes individuals passionate in research to join his research group. He has openings for Research Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Assistants, Graduate Students, as well as Internships. Interested individuals are invited to email a copy of his/her CV to his email address. Please visit https://faculty.sustech.edu.cn/huh3/en/ for more details.

Educational Background

2021, Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

2015, M.S., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

2013, B.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Professional Experience

2022-Present, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2021, Staff Engineer, Skyworks Solutions, USA

2018, IC Design Research Intern, Biotronik/MSEI, USA

Research Interests

Ultra-low power sensor interfaces and data converters

Energy efficient circuits and architectures for medical/IoT radios

Analog/mixed signal IC for in-memory computing

Honors & Awards

Shenzhen Overseas High-level Talent (Class C), 2022

RFIC Best Student Paper Award Nomination, 2020

Alaska Airline Travel Award, 2018

WSU Grand Challenges Fellowship Award, 2016-2017

OSU Laurels Scholarship Award, 2014-2015

Selected Publication

1. H. Hu and S. Gupta, “A 0.22μW single-bit VCO-based time-domain sensor-to-digital front-end with reduced supply sensitivity,” IEEE TCAS-I, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 148-159, Jan. 2022,

2. H. Hu, C.C. Lin, and S. Gupta, “A 197.1μW wireless sensor SoC with an energy-efficient analog front-end and a harmonic injection-locked OOK TX,” IEEE TCAS-I, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 2444-2456, June 2021.

3. H. Hu, T. Islam, A. Kostyukova, S. Ha, and S. Gupta, “From battery enabled to natural harvesting: enzymatic biofuel cell assisted integrated analog front-end in 130 nm CMOS for Long-Term Monitoring,” IEEE TCAS-I, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 534-545, Feb. 2019.

4. H. Hu, T. Islam, C.C. Lin, A. Kostyukova, S. Ha, and S. Gupta, “A 3.51μW 0.31μVrms biofuel cell enabled integrated analog CMOS front-end in 130nm CMOS,” Proc. IEEE BioCAS, Oct. 2018, pp. 1-4.

5. H. Hu, M. Schiavenato, and S. Gupta, “An 143nW relaxation oscillator for ultra-low power biomedical systems,” Proc. IEEE Sensors Conf., Nov. 2016, pp. 1-3.

6. H. Hu, A. Delane, M. Schiavenato, and S. Gupta, “3D UWB localization-based infant pain assessment system in incubators using dynamic averaging algorithm and ranging,” 2016 BMES/FDA Frontiers in Medical Devices Conf., May 2016.

7. Q. Xu, C.C. Lin, H. Hu, S. Gupta, “Common-Mode Drift Resilient Ring-Oscillator-Based Time-Domain Filter for Next-Generation Wireless”, IEEE MWSCAS, Aug. 2023.

8. C.C. Lin, Q. Xu, H. Hu, S. Gupta, “Design Considerations of Time-interleaved Discrete-time Beamformers Toward Wideband Communications”, IEEE TCAS-II, Early Access.

9. C. Nie, C. Tang, J. Lin, H. Hu, C. Lv, T. Cao, W. Zhang, L. Jiang, X. Liang, W. Qian, Y. Sun, and Z. He, “VSPIM: SRAM Processing-in-Memory DNN Acceleration via Vector-Scalar Operations”, IEEE TC, Early Access.

10. C. Nie, J. Lin, H. Hu, J. Li, X. Liang, and Z. He, “Energy-Efficient Hybrid-RAM with Hybrid Bit-Serial based VMM Support,” ACM GLSVLSI, June 2021.

11. C.C. Lin, H. Hu, and S. Gupta, “Improved Performance Trade-Offs in Harmonic Injection-Locked ULP TX for Sub-GHz Radios,” IEEE TMTT, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 2885-2898, June. 2021.

12. C.C. Lin*, H. Hu*, and S. Gupta, “Spur minimization techniques for ultra-low-power injection-locked transmitters,” IEEE TCAS-I, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 3643-3655, Nov. 2020.  (* - Equally contributed author)

13. C.C. Lin*, H. Hu*, and S. Gupta, “A 66.97pJ/bit 0.0413mm2 self-aligned PLL-calibrated harmonic-injection-locked TX with >62dBc spur suppression for IoT applications,” Proc. IEEE RFIC, Aug. 2020, pp. 1-4. (* - Equally contributed author)

14. S.K. Govindan, H. Hu, and S. Gupta, “A 25.6 µW 8.97 ps period jitter phase-locked relaxation oscillator with sub-1µs start-up for low power IoT,” Proc. IEEE ISCAS, May 2019, pp. 1-5.

15. A. Rahimi, H. Hu, K. Sivakumar, and S. Gupta, “Energy-efficient serialized Walsh-Hadamard transform based feature-extraction for information-aware compressive sensing,” Proc. IEEE ISCAS, May 2018, pp. 1-5.

16. A. Rahimi, H. Hu, and S. Gupta, “A compressive sensing information aware analog front end for IoT sensors using adaptive clocking techniques,” Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, Aug. 2017, pp. 325-328.

17. K. Shashank, S. A. Ay, A. Fulzele, R. C. Ram, H. Hu, S. Gupta, “Precise Placement of Precordial Electrodes with +/−0.5 cm Accuracy for Recording ECG in Self-operable Diagnostic Devices”, Proc. AHFE, June 2017, pp. 529-539.