He received the BS in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and hisPhD degree from Stanford University in 2007. Since fall 2006, he has been at OSU where he directs the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Research Group. Prior to joining OSU, he was involved with several semiconductor startups in Silicon Valley. In 2006, he was a visiting NSF researcher at Tsinghua University, China, working on adaptive wireless collaborating on energy-efficient UWB transceivers. He is currently a senior visiting researcher at Fudan University, China, collaborating on energy-efficient UWB transceivers. He is the 2010 recipient of the Department of Energy Early CAREER award for the project entitled “Sustainable Silicon:Energy–Efficient VLSI Interconnect for Extreme-Scale Computing”.