Dr. Adrian Tang

Adrian completed his Ph.D. in the department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA with a research focus on CMOS mm-wave imaging, CMOS sub-mm-wave imaging, CMOS mm-wave communications, and CMOS radar systems.


Education: 
  • Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angles CA 2012
  • M.A.Sc. Ryerson University, Toronto Canada 2008

Research Interests: 
  • Hardware implemented machine learning models for digital signal processing.
  • Machine learning based calibration and optimization of microwave science instruments.
  • CMOS system-on-chip implementations for radar, radiometery, and microwave spectroscopy.
  • CMOS mixed-signal and digital ASIC design for mm-wave communication systems.

Professional Experience: 

Avionics and display design engineer, FlightSafety International 2000-2008


Selected Awards: 
  • 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award
  • 2019 UCLA Rising Professional Alumni Achievement Award
  • 2017 SPIE Society Rising Researcher Award
  • 2017 NASA Innovation Medal
  • 2016 JPL Explorer Award

Selected Publications: 
  1. A. Tang, E. Decrossas, Y. Gim, R. Huang, R. Beauchamp, M-C. Frank Chang, "Surface Cancellation in Wideband Ground Penetrating Radar Employing Genetic Algorithm AI for Waveform Synthesis" International Microwave Symposium 2021.
  2. Adrian Tang, Maria Alonso Del Pino, Yanghyo Kim, Yan Zhang, Theodore Reck, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Deacon Nemchick, Logan Dyer, Gabriel Virbila, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, "Sub-Orbital Flight Demonstration of a 183 / 540-600 GHz Hybrid CMOS-InP and CMOS-Schottky-MEMS Limb-Sounder", IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 560-573, Spring 2021.
  3. A. Tang, R. Carey, G. Virbila, Y. Zhang, R. Huang, M-C Frank Chang, "A Delay-Correlating Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum (DS/SS) Radar System-on-Chip Operating at 183-205 GHz in 28nm CMOS" IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology , Vol 10, No. 2, Jan 24, 2020.
  4. Rulin Huang, Yan Zhang, Emmanuel Decrossas, Anish Seshadri, Chia-Jen Liang, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, and Adrian Tang, "A 0.1-4.0 GHz Inductor-less Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Based Ground-Penetrating Radar System-on-Chip" International Microwave Symposium 2021.
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Address: 
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Pasadena, CA 91109