Kai Xu

Kai Xu (Student Member, IEEE) was born in Dongying, China. He received the B.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) from Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2015. He has recently defended his Ph.D. thesis at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. From 2018 to 2019, he was with imec-Holst Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, as an RFIC Research and Development Intern. From 2013 to 2014, he was with imec/INTEC_Design Group (now IDLab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, as an Exchange Student. In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Visiting Research Assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), University of Macau, Macau. He held an industry internship at Beijing BLX IC Design Corporation, Beijing, during the summer of 2017. He currently holds a post-doctoral position at UCD and Equal1 Labs, Dublin, Ireland, as a high-speed communication link designer for CMOS quantum computers. His current research interests include CMOS ultra-low-power (ULP) RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for wireless/wireline communications and quantum computing. Mr. Xu serves as a Reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs.