Only Professor Baker’s direct research advisees are listed on this page, both Thesis and non-Thesis

(Comprehensive examination or Master’s project) degrees and undergraduates doing research.

Graduate committee work for other students, senior design project supervision, and most undergraduate student supervision are NOT listed below. 

***I do not take on the supervision of a student that hasn't taken a course from me and demonstrated good work ethic with the ability to work independently. If you are interested in pursuing a graduate degree while working in our group you need to first get admitted to UNLV (which has considerable support for new graduate students, even at the MS level). Note that there are a lot of great students here at UNLV so simply doing well in my course(s) in no way guarantees that I'll be your graduate advisor.  Also note that I no longer respond to emails from prospective students. There are way too many due to my online education efforts/books as well as the students fishing for support any way that they can get it. ***

Graduated Doctoral Students

2020 – Dr. Sachin Namboodiri – A Multi-channel MCP-PMT based Readout Integrated Circuit for LiDAR Applications      

2019 – Dr. Wenlan Wu – High-Speed Radhard Megapixel CIS Camera for High-Energy Physics    

2019 – Dr. Kostas Moutafis – A Highly-Sensitive Global-Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Memory for Hundreds of kilo-frames per second Scientific Experiments    

2016 – Dr. Yiyan Li – Portable High Throughput Digital Microfluidics and On-Chip Bacteria Cultures      

2015 – Dr. Yacouba Moumouni – Designing, Building, and Testing a Solar Thermoelectric Generation, STEG, for Energy Delivery to Remote Residential Areas in Developing Regions

2011 – Dr. Qawi IbnZayd Harvard – Low-Power, High-Bandwidth, and Ultra-Small Memory Module Design

2010 – Dr. Vishal Saxena – K-Delta-1-Sigma Modulators for Wideband Analog-to-Digital Conversion

2009 – Dr. Robert Russell Hay – Digitally-Tunable Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator

2008 – Dr. Xiangli Li (the first Boise State University College of Engineering PhD graduate) – MOSFET Modulated Dual Conversion Gain CMOS Image Sensors

2000 – Dr. Feng Lin – Research and Design of Low Jitter, Wide Locking-Range Phase-Locked and Delay-Locked Loops

Graduated Masters Students

2023

Jazmine Boloor – Survey of how Irregular Pathways in the Electrical System of the Human Heart Link to Different Heart Arrhythmias 

Minsung Cho – Studies of Forward Projection Algorithms and Implementation on PC and FPGA

Abraham Lopez – An Avalanche-Transistor-Based Pulse Generator Design For Infrared Laser Applications 

David Santiago – Development of an Automated GPIB System for Characterization of SiGe Avalanche Photodiodes  

2022

Armani Alvarez – A Control Integrated Circuit for a Hysteretic Flyback Power Converter   

Francisco Mata Carlos – A Wearable Electronic Monitoring Device for Low Pressure Garment Applications and Temperature Analysis for Prevention of Ulceration and Infection  

2021

Daniel Senda – Designs and Outcomes of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Circuits 

James Skelly – Monitored Compression Therapy: Using Smart Technology to Optimize the Treatment of Lower Extremity Swelling

2020

Gonzalo Arteaga – Current-mode photon-counting circuit with SiGe BiCMOS input stage     

Mario Valles Montenegro – Front-End CMOS Transimpedance Amplifiers on a Silicon Photomultiplier Resistant to Fast Neutron Fluence  

Jason Silic – Design and Fabrication of a 6-bit Current-Mode ADC For LIDAR and High-Speed Applications    

Brandon Wade    

2018

Jonathan DeBoy  

Dane Gentry – Design, Layout, and Testing of SiGe APDs Fabricated in a BiCMOS Process 

James Mellott – Variable Transition Time Inverters in a Digital Delay Line with Analog Storage for Processing Fast Signals and Pulses  

Eric Monahan – High Speed Fast Transient Digitizer Design and Simulation 

Shada Sharif – Design and Analysis of First and Second Order K-Delta-1-Sigma Modulators in Multiple Fabrication Processes 

Vikas Vinayaka – Analysis and Design of Analog Front-End Circuitry for Avalanche Photodiodes (APD) and Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) in Time-of-Flight Applications   

2017

Claire Tsagari – Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Capacitive Sensor using Delta-Sigma Modulation  

2015

Kevin Buck – Fast Transient Digitzer and PCB Interface  
Marzieh Sharbat Maleki  

Angsuman Roy – Design, Fabrication and Testing of Monolithic Low-Power Passive Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters    

2014

Daniel Anderson – Design and Implementation of an Instruction Set Architecture and Instruction Execution Unit for the RZ9 Coprocessor System  

2013

Jared Gordon – Design and Fabrication of an Infrared Optical Pyrometer ASIC

2012

Justin Butterfield

Adam Johnson – Methods and Considerations for Testing Resistive Memories

Ben Millemon – CMOS Characterization, Modeling, and Circuit Design in the Presence of Random Local Variation

Justin Wood

2011

Chamunda Ndinawe Chamunda

Gary VanAckern – Design Guide for CMOS Process On-Chip 3D Inductors using Thru-Wafer Vias

2010

Lucien Jan Bissey – High-Voltage Programmable Delta-Sigma Modulation Voltage-Control Circuit

Kaijun Li

Yingting Li (co-supervised with Maria Mitkova)

Lael Matthews (co-supervised with Said Ahmed-Zaid)

Priyanka Mukeshbhai Parikh

Todd Plum (co-supervised with Jeff Jessing) – Design and Fabrication of a Chemicapacitive Sensor for the Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds

Rahul Srikonda

Avani Falgun Trivedi

Kuang Ming Yap – Gain and Offset Error Correction for CMOS Image Sensors using Delta-Sigma Modulation

2009

Mahesh Balasubramanian – Phase Change Memory - Array Development and Sensing Circuits using Delta-Sigma Modulation

Lincoln Bollschweiler  

Shantanu Gupta

Qawi Harvard – Wide I_O DRAM Architecture Utilizing Proximity Communication and slides

Avinash Rajagiri

Ramya Ramarapu

Harikrishna Rapole

Aruna Vadla

2008

Hemanth Ande

Curtis Cahoon – Low-Voltage CMOS Temperature Sensor Design using Schottky Diode-Based References

Prashanth Busa

John McCoy III

Dennis Montierth – Using Delta-Sigma-Modulation for Sensing in a CMOS Imager

Rudi Rashwand

Barsha Shrestha (co-supervised with Zhu Han) – Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments using Bit Torrent and Bargaining

2007

Eric Becker – Design of an Integrated Half-Cycle Delay Line Duty Cycle Corrector Delay Locked Loop

Matthew Leslie – Noise-Shaping Sense Amplifier for Cross-Point Arrays

Jose Monje

Sanghyun Park

Vishal Saxena – Indirect Feedback Compensation Techniques for Multi-Stage Operational Amplifiers and Vishal Saxena Opamps Matlab Design Kit.zip

2006

Meshack Appikatla

Eric Booth – Wide Range, Low Jitter Delay-Locked Loop Using a Graduated Digital Delay Line and Phase Interpolator

Sucheta Das  

Krishna Duvvada – High Speed Digital CMOS Input Buffer Design

Krishnamraju Kurra  

Soumya Narasimhan  

Roger Porter  

2005

David Butler – Low-Voltage Bandgap Reference Design Utilizing Schottky Diodes

Dragos Dimitriu  

Surendranath Eruvuru – Sensing Circuit Design for an Ion Mobility Spectrometer

Sandhya Sandireddy  

Harish Singidi  

Indira Vemula – Delta-Sigma Modulator Used in CMOS Imagers

2004

Bhavana Kollimarla – A 1-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter Using Delta Sigma Modulation for Sensing in CMOS Imagers

Sandeep Pemmaraju – High Voltage Charge Pump Circuit for an Ion Mobility Spectrometer

Ravindra Puthumbaka – Circuit Design for an Ion Mobility Spectrometer

Brandon Roth – Comparison of Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Design Technologies using a 16-bit Binary Adder

Jennifer Taylor – Reading and Writing Flash Memory Using Delta-Sigma Modulation

2003

Jing Plaisted – Methods for Memory Testing

Murugesh Subramaniam – Flash Memory Sensing Using Averaging

2002

Brian Johnson – Application of an Asynchronous FIFO in a DRAM Data Path

Scott Ward – Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection in CMOS

2001

Tyler Gomm – Design of a Delay-Locked Loop with a DAC-Controlled Analog Delay Line

Gexin Huang

2000

Chris Atkins

Thaddeus Black

Zuxu Qin

1999

Hao Chen

Doug Hackler (co-supervised with Steve Parke) – TMOS: A Novel Design for MOSFET Technology

Song Liu – Design of a CMOS 6-bit Folding and Interpolating Analog-to-Digital Converter

1997

Ben Ba  

1996

Brent Keeth – A Novel Architecture for Advanced High Density Dynamic Random Access Memories

Undergraduate Students  

2022

Jerrod Batu

Abraham Castaneda

Baylee Perera

Joe Medina    

Batya Vishnepolsky 

2021

Grace Chi    

2020

Shadden Abdalla 

Itzel Becerril  

Bryan Kerstetter

2018

Mario Verduzco 

Tyler Ferreira   

2017

Michael Ghisilieri 

Antanasia Jones 

Raheel Sadiq

Stephanie Silic 

2016 

Gerardo Gomez-Martinez 

Matthew Meza  

Joey Yurgelon 

2014 

Kendrick De La Pena    

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