Chih-Hung (James) Chen

Work Experience

• Associate Professor
• 07/2009 to present
• McMaster University , Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• Assistant Professor
• 09/2002 to 06/2009
• McMaster University , Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• RF Circuit Designer
• 07/2001 to 08/2001
• Transilica Inc./Microtune Inc. , San Diego, California
• 1. Designs of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) with low phase noise
• 2. Designs of low noise amplifiers (LNA) for Bluetooth applications

• VLSI Engineer
• 05/2000 to 08/2000
• Conexant Systems Inc. , Newport Beach, California
• 1. RF noise modeling of deep submicron MOSFETs
• 2. Design of low noise amplifiers (LNA) for model verification
• 3. Graphic user interface (GUI) for RF BSIM3v3 verification

• VLSI Engineer
• 05/1999 to 08/1999
• Conexant Systems Inc. , Newport Beach, California
• 1. RF noise characterization of deep submicron MOSFETs
• 2. Automated noise source extraction of MOSFETs using MATLAB

• VLSI Engineer
• 05/1998 to 08/1998
• Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Inc. , Newport Beach, California
• 1. RF noise modeling of BJTs and MOSFETs
• 2. Automated noise and s-parameter de-embedding using MATLAB

• Research Assistant
• 01/1996 to 08/1996
• Bell-Northern Research Ltd./Northern Telecom Technology. , Ottawa, Canada
• 1. Automated extraction of MISNAN model parameters using ICCAP
• 2. Modeling of high-frequency MOSFET Non-Quasi-Static effects