Prof. Jenshan Lin

Dr. Jenshan Lin
Professor

University of Florida
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
559 Engineering Building
Gainesville, FL 32611-6130
Phone: (352) 392-4929,
Email: jenshan@ufl.edu, jenshan@ieee.org

Research

Publications List

CV in PDF

Publications List in PDF

Currently teaching EEL4461 Antenna Systems in Fall 2009. Office Hour: T 3-4pm, W 9-11am, or by appointment.

Next course to teach: EEE6374 Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems in Spring 2010.
There have been several inquiries about this course. The following information provides the answers.

The course will be offered online through EDGE program. Currently scheduled in every Spring semester.
This is a new course on EDGE. Course description on Graduate Catalog and EDGE might not have been updated. Please see the syllabus for new information.
VLSI is not the prerequisite. As long as you are enthusiastic of learning RF systems, welcome to take the course.
The course is about system level design and the effect on circuit specifications, not transistor level circuit design. Here is the description of the course:

Many RFIC designers designed the circuits without knowing where the specifications came from and how they were defined. As a result, many of the wireless systems put together by system engineers were not optimized. First, when integrating various building blocks to put together a system, a system engineer usually gives more stringent specifications to circuit designers to ensure significant safety margins. Second, the lack of global optimization often sacrifices the best performance that could have been achieved.

As RFIC design progresses from component-level building blocks to system-level integration, the job functions of RFIC designer and RF system engineer will merge. Therefore, it is crucial to train future RFIC designers with system-level knowledge and vice versa.

This graduate-level course was developed to bridge the gap between RFIC design and RF system design. It covers a wide range of RF system aspects including wireless communication standards, government regulations, antennas, RF propagation, transceiver architectures, RF specifications, and hardware integration technologies. In particular, it links RFIC design specifications and system requirements defined in wireless standards. In addition to learning the tradeoffs among different transceiver architectures and an overall picture of RFIC and wireless communication systems, one of the objectives of this course is to let students learn how to derive RFIC specifications from wireless communication standards. A reference design is used as an example. To let students have a chance to practice and understand the subjects learned in the course, a wireless system design and simulation project using computer-aided design tools is assigned.

Whether it is system-on-chip or system-in-package approach, the trend of RF/microwave design is moving from integrated circuit or component-level design to integrated system design. This course prepares the students to take on the future challenge.

Biography

Prof. Lin received the BS degree from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1987, and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

In 1994, he joined AT&T Bell Labs (later Lucent Bell Labs), Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a Member of Technical Staff, and became the Technical Manager of RF and High Speed Circuit Design Research in 2000, where he was involved with RF integrated circuits using various technologies for wireless communications. In September 2001, he joined Agere Systems, a spin-off from Lucent Technologies, where he was involved with high speed CMOS circuit design for optical and backplane communications. In July 2003, he joined University of Florida as an Associate Professor, and became Professor in August 2007. He was a Visiting Professor in National Taiwan University in summer 2006. His current research interests include sensors and biomedical applications of microwave and millimeter-wave technologies, wireless energy transmission, RF system-on-chip integration, and integrated antennas. Dr. Lin has authored or co-authored over 170 technical publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He holds 6 patents. Since joining University of Florida in 2003, he has graduated 7 PhD students.

Dr. Lin has been an elected IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Administrative Committee (AdCom) member since 2006. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques since 2006. He is a member of MTT-20 Wireless Communications Technical Committee. He has been serving on several conference steering committees and technical program committees, including International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS). He was the General Chair of 2008 RFIC Symposium and the Technical Program Chair of 2009 Radio and Wireless Symposium. He received 1994 UCLA Outstanding Ph.D. Award, 1997 ETA KAPPA NU Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Honorable Mention Award, and 2007 IEEE MTT-S N. Walter Cox Award. He is the co-author/advisor of several best student paper awards in IEEE MTT-S IMS and RWS. One of his students received the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award in 2008 and the other two received the MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship Awards in 2004 and 2008.

Last updated on November 6, 2009