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Alyssa Apsel received her B.S. from Swarthmore College in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She joined Cornell University in 2002 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Apsel has served as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, where she worked on RF interfaces for implantable electronics. She became the Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell in July 2018 and has authored or co-authored 100 refereed publications in fields such as RF mixed signal circuit design, ultra-low power radio, photonic integration, and VLSI. Her groundbreaking research has led to five pending patent applications. In 2018-2019, Apsel was recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and was elected as the IBM Professor in the College of Engineering in 2023. Her research focuses on power-aware mixed signal circuits design for highly scaled CMOS in modern electronic systems, with a current emphasis on low power radio, IoT, and reconfigurable multi-standard radios. Apsel's group explores innovative approaches to achieve improved performance per unit power while addressing challenges posed by device scaling and process variation, emphasizing skillful analog mixed signal design.
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