Resume

• 1998

  Ph.D.

  + Designed and implemented the first wireless interconnect system which was able to distribute high frequency wireless clock signals across a chip. The system consisted of on-chip antennas

  transmitter

  and receiver circuitry. \n+ Developed design methodologies and circuit demonstrations of 1-20 GHz CMOS LNAs and injection-locked frequency dividers.

  Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 1996

  M.Eng.

  Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 1992

  B.S.

  Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Mixed Signal

  Antennas

  RF Engineering

  Electronics

  Semiconductors

  Analog Circuit Design

  RF design

  Simulations

  Analog Design

  Wireless

  Electrical Engineering

  IC

  Hardware Architecture

  RF

  CMOS

  SoC

  Circuit Design

  Characterization

  Analog

  Integrated Circuit Design

  List of publications

  List of publications

  Floyd

  Brian

  Floyd

  IBM

  North Carolina State University

  Raleigh-Durham

  North Carolina Area

  Professor

  North Carolina State University

  + Manager of the RF and Wireless Circuits and Systems Group at IBM Research

  Yorktown Heights

  NY. \n+ Led an engineering team in research and development activities related to millimeter-wave communication systems.\n+ Served as a team lead on a multi-year joint development project between IBM and MediaTek Inc.

  a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company

  working on 60-GHz phased-array transceivers

  antennas

  packages

  and systems.\n+ Principal investigator for two DARPA research programs.

  IBM

  Research Staff Member

  + Integrated circuit designer at IBM Research

  Yorktown Heights

  working on millimeter-wave

  RF

  and high-speed wired applications in SiGe BiCMOS and CMOS technologies. \n+ Co-developed the world's first 60-GHz SiGe receiver and transmitter chipset for gigabit-rate wireless communications. Responsible for low-noise amplifier

  medium power amplifier

  voltage-controlled oscillator

  and frequency synthesizer.\n+ Developed three generations of WCDMA receivers in 0.18 and 0.25-um SiGe BiCMOS technology and benchmarked IBM SiGe and CMOS for WCDMA.

  IBM

  North Carolina State University

  Raleigh

  North Carolina

  Instructor for Analog IC design (ECE 511)

  RF IC design (ECE 712)

  and Millimeter-Wave IC design (ECE 792) within the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.\n\nDirector of the iNtegrated Circuits & Systems lab at NC State (iNCS2).\nMy research interests include RF and millimeter-wave circuits and systems for wireless communications

  imaging

  and radar applications. Specific research topics include multi-Gb/s wireless transceivers

  mmWave passive and active imagers

  silicon phased-array transceivers

  5G systems

  reconfigurable receivers and filters

  built-in test and calibration of phased arrays

  and manufacturable antenna-in-package approaches.

  Associate Professor