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Taekwang Jang received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He worked at Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., focusing on mixed-signal circuit design and communication systems from 2008 to 2013. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2017 and served as a post-doctoral research fellow before joining ETH Zürich in 2018 as an Assistant Professor, leading the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems group. He was appointed Associate Professor in April 2025. His research interests include circuits and systems for highly energy-constrained applications such as wireless sensor nodes and biomedical interfaces, with essential focuses on sensor interfaces, energy harvesters, power converters, communication transceivers, and frequency synthesizers. Jang has over 15 patents and has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles. He has received numerous awards including the 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award and the 2022 IEEE ISSCC Outstanding Forum Speaker Award. Jang actively participates in academic committees, serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid-State Circuits and as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Solid-State Circuits Society in 2024.
ETH Zürich • Zürich, Switzerland
Associate Professor at the Institute of Integrated Systems, focusing on energy-efficient circuits.
ETH Zürich • Zürich, Switzerland
Leading the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems group.
University of Michigan •
Conducted research in Electrical Engineering.
Samsung Electronics Inc. •
Worked on mixed-signal circuit design.
Hynix Semiconductor •
Intern in the DRAM 3-team.
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