Dr. Fei Yuan
Areas of Academic Interest
CMOS mixed-mode circuits and systems
Analog-to-digital data converters
Transceivers for high-speed data communications over wire channels
Passive wireless microsystems
Education
| Year | University | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | University of Waterloo | PhD |
| 1995 | University of Waterloo | MASc |
| 1985 | Shandong University | BEng |
Courses Taught
| Course Code | Course |
|---|---|
| EE 8502 | Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits |
| EE 8503 | VLSI Circuits and Systems for Data Communications |
| ELE 700 | Engineering Design |
Spotlight
In a beautiful rose garden, the landscape requires more than just flowers. Between the prized blooms and the dirt beneath, trailing greenery and lush grass play an equally vital role. Fei Yuan鈥檚 gardening analogy for the academic environment is a fitting one. At the university level, research output is widely admired, but the often less glamorous underpinnings of teaching are just as important.
Yuan himself has paid equal attention to both his research in microelectronics and his focus on teaching excellence. On the one hand, he鈥檚 published six monographs and more than 250 scientific papers, many of which have only two investigators: Yuan himself and one of his grad students, who play a key role in Yuan鈥檚 research. On the other, he takes great pride in not only mentoring grad students but also teaching at the undergraduate level. Yuan鈥檚 been recognized with both research chair positions and teaching awards, demonstrating his balanced approach to academia. But it鈥檚 while speaking about his former students that Yuan鈥檚 face lights up. 鈥淲hat gives me the most fulfilment is seeing the success of students.鈥�
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- Dean鈥檚 Research Excellence Award, 2004
- Ryerson Research Chair, 2005
- Dean鈥檚 Teaching Award, 2017
- Fellow, Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2016
- NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral, 1997-1999
- F. Yuan and P. Parekh, "Time-based all-digital delta-sigma time-to-digital converter with pre-skewed bi-directional gated delay line time integrator," IET Circuits Devices Systems (in press), 2019.
- F. Yuan and P. Parekh, "All-digital delta-sigma time-to-digital converter via time-mode signal processing" IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II - Express Briefs (in press), 2019.
- F. Yuan (Ed), , CRC Press, 2015.
- Y. Zhou, N. Filiol, and F. Yuan, "Current reuse quadrature charge-domain sampling mixer with embedded FIR, IIR, and N-path filters," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 1431-1440, May 2015.
- F. Yuan and Y. Zhou, "Frequency-domain study of lock range of non-harmonic oscillators with multiple multi-tone injections," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 1395 - 1406, May 2013.
- Guest Editor, "All-Digital Time-Mode Approaches for Mixed Analog-Digital Signal Processing" special issue,
- Guest Editor, "Time-Based Approaches for Mixed-Mode Signal Processing" special issue,
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- Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Beijing
- Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communication and Information Systems, Wuhan
- Program Co-Chair, Int'l Conf. on Circuits, System and Simulation (ICCSS), Guangzhou
- Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Shanghai