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About the Author
Qun Jane Gu ( jg u@ ucdav is.edu)
received her Ph.D. degree from the
University of California, Los Angeles, in 2007. After a two-year stay at
the University of Florida, she joined
the University of California, Davis, in
2012. Her research interests include
high-efficiency, low-power-interconnect, millimeter-wave (mm-wave)
and sub-mm-wave/terahertz ICs and
systems for communication, radar,
and imaging. She serves as a technical program committee member for
the IEEE RFIC Symposium, CIC, and
ISSCC. She is an associate editor of
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters and VLSI Journal of
Integration and a guest editor of IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
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