Group News

  1. In the winter of 2026, Illya Fesenko joined out group at Lakehead University as an MSc candidate. Welcome.
  2. In Summer of 2025, Hong Xu newly joined to my research group at Lakehead University as an MSc. candidate. 
  3. On August 28, 2025, Daniel Junehee Lee successfully defended his Ph.D.'s dissertation, titled "All Digital SAR Time-To-Digital Converter." Congratulations! He will work at Synopsys as a Analog Designer.
  4. On August 27, 2025, Wenhao (David) Wu successfully defended his master's thesis, titled "Sub-Threshold Delay-Locked Loops for Timing Signal Generation of Low-Power SAR ADC." Congratulations! He will continue his Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Dr. Fei Yuan and myself.
  5.  Feb. 04th, 2025: Congratulations to Pierre Leduc, who is the first author of his first journal accepted by IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I: Regular Paper.
  6. In September 2024, welcome Francisco Braga. He will be co-supervised by Dr. Fei Yuan and myself.
  7. September 6th, 2024: Congratulations to Parth Parekh, my first PhD student, co-supervised with Dr. Yuan at TMU. He successfully completed his PhD defense today with an impressive 17 publications. A remarkable achievement!
  8. Sept. 2024. Congratulations to Wenhao(David) Wu who is the first author of paper "0.6-V 100-kHz sub-threshold delay-locked loop with linearization and time-mode proportional-integral locking", accepted by 20th IEEE ACCPS in Taipei.
  9. Aug. 2024. Pierre has successfully presented the work "A 3.04-Fs FoM Hybrid LDO Regulator with Fast Transient Algorithm and Wide Load Range" in 67th IEEE MWSCAS. In addition, Wenhao(David) Wu, my co-supervised student at TMU, succeeded to students paper competition final list. He also presented the work on "A 0.6-V 108-nW 100-KHz Sub-Threshold Delay-Locked Loop with Digital Linearization for Low-Power SAR ADC".
  10. Apr. 2024. Congratulations to Pierre Leduc and Zakary Williams for their work on High-Speed Dual Loop LDO and Low-Power Zero-Tracking LDO accepted by one of prestigious conferences, NEWCAS2024. 
    1. Pierre Leduc, X. Fu, Y. Zhou, and Kamal Elsankary, "A Dual Loop Current Mode Feedback Capacitor Less LDO for High Current Applications," Proc. IEEE International NEWCAS, accepted in April 2024.
    2.  Zakary Williams, L. Chen, Y. Zhou, and Z. Bai, "A 580-nA Quiescent Current Low-Dropout Regulator with Zero-Tracking for Wide Load Applications," Proc. IEEE International NEWCAS, accepted in April 2024.
  11. Congratulations on Daniel Junehee Lee (PhD candidate co-supervised with Dr. Yuan) on receiving Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship - 2023.
  12. Congratulations on Pierre Leduc on receiving OGS 2023 Award.
  13. Mar. 2023. A 1x2 mm^2 silicon area based on TSMC 180 nm process was granted by CMC Microsystems where two LDO designs will be tested in June 2023.
  14.  Jan. 2023. Congratulations to Pierre Leduc for his work on high-speed LDO accepted by one of prestigious conferences, ISCAS2023. The paper has been accepted as a lecture.
    1. X. Fu, Y. Zhou, Pierre Leduc, and Kamal Elsankary, "A High-Speed Capacitor Less LDO with Multi-Loop Fast Feedback and Bandwidth Enhancement Control," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, accepted in Jan. 2023.
  15. Jan. 2023, Zakary Williams join the research group as a MASc. student. He gradated from Lakehead University in 2023.
  16. Congratulate Pierre Leduc on receiving OGS2022.
  17. Sept. 2022, Pierre Leduc join our research group as a MASc. student. He graduated from Lakehead University in 2022.
  18.  A 2x2 mm^2 chip area based on TSMC 180 nm process was granted by CMC Microsystems in 2022. The chip was successfully tested in June of 2022.
  19. A great event at ISSCC2022, 2022 circuit insight
  20. Fangzhou Sun is now with Synopsys, Mississauga, as a verification engineer starting from Sept. 2021. Congrats!
  21. Fangzhou Sun successfully completed his defence on May 27, 2021 with the thesis titled as "Ku-Band Rotary Travelling Wave Oscillator". Congratulation!
  22.  A 2x1 mm^2 chip area based on TSMC 130 nm process was granted by CMC Microsystems in 2021.
  23. Congratulate Daniel Junehee Lee on receiving student best paper award in ISCAS2021. This is the one of the most prestigious award in this top conference.
  24. Congratulate Daniel Junehee Lee (PhD candidate co-supervised with Dr. Yuan) on receiving RGS2021.
  25. Congratulate Parth Parekh (PhD candidate co-supervised with Dr. Yuan) on receiving OGS2021.
  26. Congratulate Daniel Junehee Lee on the paper acceptance of ISCAS202. The following paper has been invited to re-submit to TCAS2.
    1. D. Lee, F. Yuan,  and Y. Zhou, "All-digital successive approximation TDC in time-mode signal processing," Proc. IEEE Int’l Symp. Circuits Syst.(ISCAS21), accepted for publication, Jan. 2021, Daegu, Korea
  27. Jan. 2021, the following papers has been invited for an extension to TCAS1.
    1. P. Parekh, F. Yuan, and Y. Zhou, "All-digital time integrator using bi-directional gated Vernier delay line," Proc. 63 rd IEEE Mid-West Symp. Circuits Syst., pp. 331-324, Springfield, MA, 2020
    2. P. Parekh, F. Yuan, and Y. Zhou, "Area/power-efficient true-single-phase-clock D-flipflops with improved metastability," Proc. 63rd IEEE Mid-West Symp. Circuits Syst., pp. 182-185, Springfield, MA, 2020
  28. Jan. 2021, Fanzhou's work has been accepted for publication on IET Electronics Letters. Congratulations!
  29. Oct. 2020, Jared's work has been accepted for publication on IET Circuits Devices and Systems. Congratulations!
  30. Jun. 2020. Congratulate Robert Hertel on receiving the prestigious scholarship from NSERC, 2020 Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M) for the title of "An active inductor ILO-based low power WSN receiver".
  31. Apr. 2020, Fangzhou Sun join our research group to start a project, "Low power high performance RTWO design". Fangzhou Sun graduated from Heilongjiang University, China in 2016.
  32. Aug. 09, 2019, Jared Mercier successfully passed defense, titled "Low-Power Multi-Band Injection-Locked Wireless Receiver". He will join Carleton University in Ottawa to pursue PhD study. Congratulations!
  33. Aug. 2019, as a co-author, Jared Mercier has the following paper to be appeared in 62nd IEEE Midwest Symposium in Dallas, TX. USA:
    1. J. Mercier and Y. Zhou, " 35 uW Linearized LNA for WSN Applications," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems, Aug. 2019, Dallas, TX, USA.
  34. Sept. 2018, Mihajlo Antonijevic join our research group as a MASc. student. He graduated from Lakehead University in 2018.st 
  35. Jun. 2018, as a co-author, Jared Mercier has the following paper to be appeared in 61st IEEE Midwest Symposium in Windsor, Canada:
    1. Y. Zhou, J. Mercier and F. Yuan, " A Comparative Study Of Injection Locked Frequency Divider Using Harmonic Mixer in Weak and Strong Inversion," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems, Aug. 2018.
  36. Sept. 2017, Jared Mercier join our research group as a MASc. student. He graduated from Lakehead University in 2017.

Graduate Student Opportunities

I am looking for motivated M.Sc. and Ph.D. students to join my research group in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Lakehead University.

Research areas:

  • Power management circuits (LDOs)
  • Analog and mixed-signal IC design
  • Time-mode circuits

Students will gain hands-on experience with the full IC design flow (design, layout, fabrication, testing) and opportunities to publish in IEEE conferences and journals.

Requirements:
Background in circuits/electronics. Experience with CAD tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens) is an asset.

How to apply:
Send your CV, transcripts, and a short statement of research interests to yzhou30@lakeheadu.ca.