Speaker
Alvin Leng Sun Loke (S’89–M’99–SM’04) received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering physics with highest honors from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1994 and 1999, respectively.,His doctoral work examined interconnect integration and reliability. He was an Intern at Sumitomo Electric Industries, Itami, Japan; Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA; and Motorola, Austin, TX, USA. From 1998 to 2001, he worked on CMOS technology integration at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA, and then at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Singapore, as an Agilent Technologies Assignee. Since 2001, he has been designing wireline clocking and transceiver circuits for applications ranging from backplane to on-package links as well as addressing advanced CMOS technology and model impact on analog/mixed-signal design at Agilent Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices, Fort Collins, CO, USA, and Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA. Dr. Loke recently joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, San Diego, CA, USA, to focus on analog technology/design co-optimization in the most advanced CMOS nodes. He has authored over 50 technical publications and holds 25 patents.,Dr. Loke was a recipient of the UBC Chancellor Entrance and Canadian NSERC 1967 Scholarships, the 2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits (CICC) Best Paper Award, and the 2010 Outstanding Region 5 Member Service Award. He served as an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer in 2011 and 2012, an officer in the Fort Collins IEEE SSCS Chapter from 2003 to 2013 (leading the chapter to receive the 2005 Outstanding Chapter Award), a Committee Member of 2006–2012 IEEE CICC, a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Special Issues on CICC 2010 and 2011, and a member of the ECE Department Industrial Advisory Board of Colorado State University. He is currently the San Diego SSCS Chapter Chair, the SSCS North America Webinar Coordinator, and a Committee Member of the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits