About Me
Bo Gao (髙 波) (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China, in 2017, and the M.S. degree from Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing, in 2020. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2025. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Chongqing, China. His research interests include high-performance data converters, with a particular focus on high-speed and high-resolution pipelined ADCs, as well as related calibration techniques. (E-mail: [email protected])
Education
- • Ph.D. in EE, KAIST, Daejeon, KR - (08/2020~11/2025) - Adviser: Prof. Seung-Tak Ryu
Dissertation, ‘Design of High-Speed Pipelined ADC Based on the Closed-Loop Dynamic Residue Amplifiers’. - • M.S. in EE, SEU, Nanjing, CN - (09/2017~06/2020) - Adviser: Prof. Jianhui Wu
Thesis, ‘Design of 16-Bit 32-MS/s Pipelined SAR ADC for Radar System’. - • B.S. in EE, NUPT, Nanjing, CN - (09/2013~06/2017) - Adviser: Prof. Debo Wang
Thesis, ‘Design of Radiation Monitoring System with Photodiode’.
Experience
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Postdoctoral Researcher
-National Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, China (04/2026~Present) -
South Korean National Researcher (No.13032983)
-Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Laboratory, Korea (09/2020~01/2026)
• Samsung Project (08/2023~12/2024): Power-Efficiency High-Speed Pipelined ADC with Closed-Loop Dynamic Residue Amplifier
Design of Single-Channel 12-bit 800-MS/s Pipelined ADC with Noise Reduction.
• Samsung Project (01/2022~07/2023): Ultrahigh Performance ADCs for SDR Applications
Design of Single-Channel 12-bit 600-MS/s Pipelined ADC, (Published in ASSCC'24 & TCAS-I'26).
• Samsung Project (09/2020~10/2021): Ring Amplifier with Adaptive Deadzone Control
Design of Single-Channel 10-bit 320-MS/s Pipelined ADC, (Design Assistant). -
Teaching Assistant (TA)
• EE201-Circuit Theory, KAIST, Daejeon, KR. (03~06, 2025)
• IC Design Education Center (IDEC), DongTan, KR. (09~10, 2022)
• Analog Electronic Circuit, SEU, Nanjing, CN. (09~12, 2017)
Conference
- Bo Gao, Lizhen Zhang, Raymond Mabilangan, Chang-Un Park, Kent Edrian Lozada, Ho-Jin Kim, Youngjae Cho, Michael Choi, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A 28nm CMOS 12-bit-600-MS/s 15.6mW Pipelined ADC with Two-Stage Gainboosting FIA-based RA," IEEE Asian Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ASSCC), Nov., 2024, pp. 1-3.
- Bo Gao, Xin Li, Chenggang Yan, and Jianhui Wu, "Active noise shaping SAR ADC based on ISDM with the 5MHz bandwidth," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Oct., 2020, pp. 1-4.
- Lizhen Zhang, Bo Gao, Kun-Woo Park, Hyeongjin Kim, Kent Edrian Lozada, Ye-Dam Kim, Jianhui Wu, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A 5x OSR 1MHz-BW 81dB-SNDR 5th-Order Noise-Shaping SAR ADC with Zero-Optimized 3rd-Order Integrator," IEEE Asian Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ASSCC), Nov., 2024, pp. 1-3.
- Kent Edrian Lozada, Raymond Mabilangan, Charlie Tahar, Young-Hun Moon, Hyun-Woo Shin, Hyeongjin Kim, Bo Gao, Kwan-Hoon Song, Woong-Taek Lim, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Michael Choi, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A 0.36-mW 500-kHz-BW 182.2-dB-FoMs 3rd-order DNC-Based Sturdy MASH CT DSM," European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), Aug., 2026, pp. 1-4.
- Jinghao Zhao, Yihong Qing, Zheyi Li, Bo Gao, Jeffrey Prinzie, Frédéric Saigné, Paul Leroux, "A Wide-Range Body Biasing Technique for Analog ICs in 22nm FD-SOI Under Total Ionizing Dose Radiation Harsh Environment," RADiation Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) Conference, Sep., 2024, pp.1-4.
- Jinghao Zhao, Zheyi Li, Qichao Ma, Qiuyang Lin, Yihong Qing, Xinfa Zheng, Maxim Gorbunov, Bo Gao, Chaohan Wang, Mingzi Zhang, Esmee Tackx, Jeffrey Prinzie, Paul Leroux, "A 12-bit 5 MS/s TMR-Free Radiation-Adaptive SAR ADC for Space Missions with 67.7 dB SNDR in 22-nm FD-SOI," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May, 2026, pp. 1-5.
Journal
- Bo Gao, Kent Edrian Lozada, Raymond Mabilangan, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A 28-nm 12-bit 800-MS/s Pipelined ADC with FIF Ring Amplifier for Low-Noise Performance," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Under Review, 2026.
- Bo Gao, Raymond Mabilangan, Chang-Un Park, Kent Edrian Lozada, Ho-Jin Kim, Youngjae Cho, Michael Choi, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A 12-bit 600-MS/s Pipelined ADC With Two-Stage High-Gain Dynamic Amplifier in 28-nm CMOS," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 2371-2382, April, 2026. (Highlight Paper)
- Lizhen Zhang, Bo Gao, Kun-Woo Park, Raymond Mabilangan, Kent Edrian Lozada, Hyeongjin Kim, Jianhui Wu, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "DR Loss-Free Dithering-Based Digital Background Linearity Calibration for SAR-Assisted Multi-Stage ADCs with Digital Input-Interference Cancellation," IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), vol. 5, pp. 349-364, Oct., 2024.
- Raymond Mabilangan, Bo Gao, Charlie Tahar, Kent Edrian Lozada, Dong-Jin Chang, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A Single-Step Relative-Prime-Rotation Based Background Timing-Skew Calibration with MAD-Averaging," IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), vol. 6, pp. 164-177, Aug., 2026.
- Kent Edrian Lozada, Bo Gao, Raymond Mabilangan, Kun-Woo Park, Charlie Tahar, Young-Hun Moon, Kwan-Hoon Song, and Seung-Tak Ryu, "A SAR-Assisted Continuous-Time M-0 MASH Delta-Sigma Modulator with Digital-Domain Noise Leakage Shaping," IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), vol. 7, pp. 69-81, Feb., 2026.
- Bo Gao, Xin Li, Jie Sun, and Jianhui Wu, "Modeling of high-resolution data converter: Two-step pipelined-SAR ADC based on ISDM," Electronics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 137-155, Jan., 2020.
- Bo Gao, Jing Yang, Si Jiang, and Debo Wang, "Application of the thermoelectric MEMS microwave power sensor in a power radiation monitoring system," Journal of Semiconductors, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1-3, Aug., 2016.
- Xing Li, Bo Gao, Chenggang Yan, Desheng Ding, and Jianhui Wu, "Difference-equalisation based estimation of timing skew for time-interleaved ADCs in communication systems," Electronics Letters (Electron. Lett.), vol. 55, no. 25, pp. 1331-1333, Dec., 2019.
Patent
- High-gain and high-linearity dynamic amplifier for ADCs, CN109474249A, 2019.
- An angle measurement system and measurement method based on a linear hall sensor, CN106500584A, 2019.
- Separation system of horizontal synchronizing signal and vertical synchronizing signal in video, CN105933574B, 2019.
- High-precision microwave power detector based on cascaded cantilever beam structure and fabrication method, CN106199173A, 2016.
Scholarship, Award (First Contributor)
- National Scholarship Fund (Oversea PhD. Program), China Scholarship Council (CSC), 2021 ~ 2025.
- PhD. Full Scholarship, KAIST, 2020 ~ 2024.
- Excellent Paper Award, the 117-th Anniversary of Southeast University, Nanjing, CN, 2019.
- The First Global Elite PhD. Semiconductor Challenge, First Prize, Chongqing, CN, 2021.
- The 2nd National College Student Integrated Circuit Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Second Prize, Nanjing, CN, 2018.
- The 6th National College Student Integrated Circuit Design Competition, First Prize, Beijing, CN, 2016.
- National College Student Electronic Design Competition – Jiangsu Province TI (Texas Instruments) Cup, First Prize, Nanjing, CN, 2015.