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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Address:
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Pasadena, CA 91109