Ana Rusu

Ana Rusu is Professor and Leader of the Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits and Systems Group, at the Division of Electronics and Embedded Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) School at KTH. From 2013 till 2017, she was Director of Doctoral Education (FA) at the School of ICT, and from 2018 till July 2022, she was vice-FA at the EECS School.

Ana Rusu received degrees of Diploma Engineer (M. S. degree) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1983, Ph.D. in Electronics from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1998 and Docent in Circuit Theory from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2006. Since September 2001, she has been with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Her research interests include energy-efficient low/ultra-low power circuits and systems for biomedical and wireless communications applications, energy harvesting and power management, hybrid spintronics-CMOS systems, Ising Machines, circuits using emerging technologies (graphene, SiC), monolitic 3D integration technology and EDA/CAD tools.

She has participated as PI or co-PI in several national and international research projects and has authored or coauthored more than 150 international scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, books and book chapters. She was Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters till 2022.

Supervision

PhD students (graduated):

1. Martin Gustafsson/PhD, June 2008 (currently at Analog Devices, Sweden)

2. Saul Duenas Rodriguez/PhD, Nov 2009 (currently assoc. prof. at KTH)

3. Julian Garcia/PhD, June 2012 (currently at Bombardier/Alstom Sweden)

4. Tao Sha/PhD, June 2014 (currently at Ericsson, Kista, Sweden)

5. Tingsu Chen/ PhD, Dec 2015 (currently at Volvo, Goteborg, Sweden)

6. Janko Katic/PhD, June 2017 (currently at Cadence, Kista, Sweden)

7. Nikola Ivanisevic/PhD, May 17, 2019 (currently at Nordic Semiconductor, Stockholm, Sweden)

8. Muhammad Waqar/PhD, May 29, 2019 (currently at Ericsson, Lund, Sweden)

9. Panagiotis Chaourani/PhD, August 30, 2019 (currently at Infineon, Graz, Austria)

10. Dagur Ingi Albertsson/PhD, June 12, 2023 (currently at Teledyne Gavia, Reykjavik, Island)

11. Alejandro Fernandez/PhD, September 27, 2024 (currently at CSEM Zurich, Schweiz)

Licentiate degrees:

1. Vasileios Manolopoulos/Licentiate Feb 2012 (currently at Nexus Group, Sweden)

2. Tao Sha

3. Tingsu Chen

5. Janko Katic

Assistant supervisor of PhD students (graduated):

1. Delia Rodríguez de Llera González/PhD, Dec. 2008 (currently at GERAC, Thales Group, Spain)

2. Jad Atallah/PhD, Nov 2008 (currently assoc. prof. at Notre Dame University, Lebanon)

3. Raheleh Hedayati/PhD, 2017 (currently at Ericsson, Kista, Sweden)

4. Saleh Kargarrazi/PhD, 2017 (currently at Finisar Corporation)

5. Ye Tian/PhD, 2017 (currently at Nordic Semiconductor, Kista, Sweden)

6. Yu-Kai Huang/PhD, 18 October 2024

Research Projects:

• AIsing: Analog CMOS Ising Machines for Natural Computing (VR, 2023-2026)
• Implantable Bioimpedance Spectrometer (SSF, OnabLab, KI, SLU)
• Smart sock for integrated control of blood clots and prevention of blood clots (VINNOVA, KI, BU, KTH)
• Energy Harvesting Interfaces
• Hybrid Spintronics-CMOS Systems (VR, GU, KTH)

Previous Research Projects (the latest only):

• Neural Recording Interfaces (VR)
• Energy Harvesting Interfaces (VR)
• High-Temperature SiC BJT RF Circuits (KAW)
• Monolithic 3D Integration Design Methodologies, Tools and Circuits (SSF)

Examples of ASIC development for the mentioned research projects: