Wentai Liu (short)

Wentai Liu (long)

Alcoa Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)



Contact Information

 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
ICAT: Integrated Circuit and Advanced Technology (ICAT)
North Carolina State University

Room 442, EGRC(Engineering Graduate Research Center)
2410 Campus Shore Drive
Centennial Campus
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7914

919-515-7347 (Voice)
919-515-2285 (Fax)
http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/faculty/wtl.html
wentai@eos.ncsu.edu
Secretary: Sandy Bronson
sbronson@eos.ncsu.edu


My Research Interests

retinal prosthesis, biomimetic microsystems, molecular electronics, mixed-signal VLSI design/CAD, signal schemes, timing/clock network optimization, noise characterization/modeling/measurement, microelectronics sensor design, high speed serial-link transceivers and communication networks, and computer vision/image processing


My Professional Experiences
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II (IEEE)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Solid-State Circuits and Devices
  • Tutorial Co-Chair for ISCAS96
  • General Chair for 1997 Solid-State Circuits Society Workshop on Clock Network Design and Distribution
  • Representative, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and Solid-State Circuits Society

My Research Projects

Sponsor Title
NSF, DOE, Mitsubishi, Merry-Lynch Implantable Multiple Unit Visual Prosthesis
NIH Retinal Prosthesis Project: A Vision to Bring Back Sight
DARPA, ZettaCore Molecular Memory
SRC, NSF Interconnect Modeling and Band Limited Signaling
NASA SOI Radio for Mars Mission
NSF, ZettaCore, Mitsubishi Neuro-Transistor
NSF Serial-Link Transceiver
NSF Delay Vernier Techniques
NSF Wave Pipelining
Xirlink CMOS Active Pixel Camera
UTC Interactive Learning

 


"We Believe in Silicon" - Chips Designed by My Group


My Graduate Students
Recent Publications
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