Research Interests

  • CMOS data conversion circuit design
  • Analog, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuit design for communications, image acquisition and (bio)-medical applications

 

Education

  • 2002, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Stanford University, California
  • 2001, M.S. in Management Science and Engineering - Stanford University, California
  • 1997, M.S. in Electrical Engineering - Catholic University Leuven, Belgium (Summa Cum Laude)

 

Publications

  • "A fully integrated RF Front-end with independent Rx/Tx matching and +20dBm output power for WLAN applications; R. Chang et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2007 (co-author).
  • "An 802.11a/b/g SoC for embedded WLAN applications; L. Nathawad et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2006 (co-author).
  • "Wideband data transmission over WLAN," K. Vleugels, Analog Circuit Design, Springer 2005.
  • "Wideband data transmission over WLAN," K. Vleugels, Proceedings 14th Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD), Apr. 2005.
  • "An 800mW 10Gb Ethernet Transceiver in 0.13um CMOS," S. Sidiropoulos et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2004 (co-author).
  • "Broadband Oversampling Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Digital Communications," K. Vleugels, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Feb. 2002.
  • "A 2.5-V Sigma-Delta Modulator for Broadband Communications Applications," K. Vleugels et al., IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Dec. 2001.
  • "A 2.5-V Broadband Multi-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulator with 95 dB Dynamic Range," K. Vleugels et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 50-51, Feb. 2001.
  • "Total Dose behavior of submicron and deep submicron CMOS technologies," G. Anelli et al., Proceedings of the third workshop on electronics for LHC experiments, London, September 1997. (co-author)
  • "Layout techniques to enhance the radiation tolerance of standard CMOS technologies demonstrated on a pixel readout chip," W. Snoeys et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods. (co-author)
  • "Design of a 0.5 mm CMOS front end for a pixel detector," K. Vleugels, Master Thesis, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, 1997.

 

Classes

  • EE315, VLSI Data Conversion Circuits (co-taught with Professor Wooley)

 

Other Information

  • Employment history:
  • Honors & Awards: Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow (1997), Franqui Foundation Fellow (1997)
  • Consulting assistant professor since 2002; advisor to graduate students in the mixed-signal IC group of Prof. Wooley, co-teacher for EE315 (Spring 2001-Spring 2004)
  • Member of IEEE since 1997

 

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