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SUMMARY:IEM Seminar Series: Inverse Design of Nonintuitive Radio Frequency
  Integrated Circuits
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DESCRIPTION:Vinay Chenna\, University of Southern California\, USA\nAbstr
 act\nRadio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) are foundational to moder
 n wireless systems\, enabling communication and sensing across commercial 
 and defense applications. Yet despite decades of advances in theory and de
 sign tools\, RFIC design remains largely manual and time-consuming. Design
 ers depend on experience-driven heuristics and tacit\, iterative co-optimi
 zation of active devices\, such as transistors\, and passive structures\, 
 such as spirals\, capacitors\, and transmission lines. The reliance on tem
 plated components also severely restricts the design space that can be exp
 lored\, limiting both performance and innovation.\nThis talk presents a fu
 ndamentally different paradigm for RFIC design based on inverse design tec
 hniques. The proposed framework autonomously synthesizes high-performance\
 , tapeout-ready RFICs directly at the layout level with minimal human inte
 rvention\, by algorithmically codesigning active and passive components.\n
 Furthermore\, by moving beyond fixed template-based methodologies\, the fr
 amework unlocks vast\, nonintuitive design spaces inaccessible to conventi
 onal workflows\, often producing layouts that significantly outperform tra
 ditional designs. Demonstrations across diverse circuit classes and freque
 ncy regimes\, from low-GHz time-varying filters to W-band linear and nonli
 near power amplifiers\, highlight the power and generality of this approac
 h.\n\nBiography\nVinay Chenna received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engin
 eering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras\, Chennai\, In
 dia\, in 2019. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Ming Hsieh Departm
 ent of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern C
 alifornia (USC). His current research focuses on leveraging computational 
 techniques and optimization algorithms to synthesize high-performance\, be
 yond-human RF and mm-Wave integrated circuits autonomously.\n\nMr. Chenna 
 was a recipient of the USC Annenberg Fellowship in 2019 and the USC IUSSTF
 -Viterbi summer research award in 2018. He won the 2025 Best Student Paper
  Award - 1st Place at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) 
 Symposium\, the 2026 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral 
 Achievement Award\, the 2026 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society 
 (MTT-S) graduate student fellowship\, and the 2026 IEEE Microwave Theory a
 nd Techniques Society (MTT-S) Tom Brazil Prize.\n 
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