Welcome to my personal website.

My name is Ta Minh Chien. I am a Research Engineer at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) and a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

My office is at

Room 101 - Building 193

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The University of Melbourne

Victoria 3010, AUSTRALIA

I can also be reached by

▪ Phone

Tel: (+61) 3 8344 3893

Mobile: (+61) 432 488 471

▪ E-mail

ctaminh@ee.unimelb.edu.au

cta@ieee.org

chientm@gmail.com

My CV can be downloaded here in MS Word format and PDF format. Following is my biography and a summary of my research.

Biography

Education

▪ From Oct. 2005 to present

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

University of Melbourne

Australia

▪ From June 2003 to July 2004

Master of Science in Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems

Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

▪ From Sept. 1997 to May 2005

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

Vietnam

Employment

▪ From June 2008 to present

Research Engineer

Embedded Systems (ES)

National ICT Australia (NICTA)

Australia

▪ From Aug. 2004 to Sept. 2005

Research Engineer

Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratory (ICS)

Institute of Microelectronics (IME)

Singapore

▪ From Jan. 2004 to June 2004

Intern

Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratory (ICS)

Institute of Microelectronics (IME)

Singapore

▪ From Mar. 2002 to June 2003

Informatics/Telecommunications Engineer

Center for Development of Information Technology (CDiT)

Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT)

Vietnam

Honors and Awards

▪ Best Student Paper Award at The 2008 International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), P. R. China (2008)

▪ MIFRS and NICTA scholarships for Ph.D. research at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2005)

▪ Vietnamese Education Foundation (VEF) scholarship, Vietnam (2005)

▪ Scholarship from Singapore Government for Master study at the Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2003)

▪ Silver medal and Certificate of Merit for excellent student from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam (2002)

▪ Scholarships from Motorola Foundation (2001), Korean Government (2000), Vietnamese Graduate Student Union in Sacramento (1998,1999), Nortel Networks (1998), Sumitomo Corporation (from 1997 to 2000)

▪ Highest score in the entrance examination to the Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1997)

▪ National Award for excellent student in Informatics competition, Vietnam (1996)

Research

Research interests

▪ IC design

▪ Wireless communications

Ongoing projects

▪ High-speed CMOS ADC

▪ Analog filter

▪ 60-GHz CMOS low-noise amplifier

▪ 60-GHz CMOS transmit/receive switch

▪ 60-GHz CMOS phase shifter

▪ 60-GHz CMOS wireless transceiver

▪ ESD protection circuits

▪ Bionic-eyes

Past projects

▪ Variable gain amplifier for dual-band ultra-wideband transceiver on CMOS

▪ Tunnel diode and resonant tunneling diode characterizing and modeling (Master's thesis)

▪ A combination of wavelets and neural networks to improve the performance of satellite communications (Bachelor's thesis)

Publications, presentations, posters

[10] E. Skafidas, F. Zhang, B. Yang, B.N. Wicks, Z. Liu, C. M. Ta, Y. Mo, K. Wang, G. Felic, P. Nadagouda, T. Walsh, W. Shieh, I. Mareels and R.J. Evans, "A 60-GHz Transceiver on CMOS," in Proceedings of The 2008 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics / Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (MWP/APMP 2008), Gold Coast, Australia, Oct. 01-03, 2008, pp. 306-309.
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[09] F. Zhang, B. Yang, B. N. Wicks, Z. Liu, C. M. Ta, Y. Mo, K. Wang, G. Felic, P. Nadagouda, T. Walsh, W. Shieh, I. Mareels, R. J. Evans, and E. Skafidas, "A 60-GHz direct-conversion transmitter on 130-nm CMOS," in Proceedings of Technical Papers of The 2008 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC 2008), Fukuoka, Japan, Nov. 3–5, 2008, pp. 137–140.
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[08] C. M. Ta, E. Skafidas, R. J. Evans and C. D. Hoang, "A Millimeter-Wave Phase Shifter on CMOS for Beamforming Applications," The International Conference on Electrical Engineering 2008 (ICEE 2008), Okinawa, Japan, July 06-10, 2008.
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[07] C. M. Ta, R. J. Evans, E. Skafidas, and C. D. Hoang, "A 60-GHz Variable Delay Line on CMOS for Steerable Antennae in Wireless Communication Systems," in Proceedings of The 21st Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Ontario, Canada, May 04-07, 2008, pp. 1915-1918.
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[06] B. N. Wicks, C. M. Ta, E. Skafidas, R. J. Evans, and I. Mareels, "A 60-GHz Power Amplifier and Transmit/Receive Switch for Integrated CMOS Wireless Transceivers," in Proceedings of The 2008 International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT 2008), Nanjing, P. R. China, April 21-24, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 155-158.
» Best Student Paper Award
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[05] C. M. Ta, B. N. Wicks, F. Zhang, B. Yang, Y. Mo, K. Wang, Z. Liu, G. Felic, P. Nadagouda, T. Walsh, R. J. Evans, I. Mareels, and E. Skafidas, "Issues in the Implementation of a 60GHz Transceiver on CMOS," in Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT 2007), Singapore, Dec. 09-11, 2007, pp. 135-140.
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[04] B. Yang, Y. Mo, K. Wang, Y. Feng, B. Wicks, C. Ta-Minh, F. Zhang, Z. Liu, C. Liu, G. Felic, P. Nadagouda, T. Walsh, and E. Skafidas, "Implementation of a Gigabit Per Second Millimetre Wave Transceiver on CMOS," in Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications (AusWireless 2007), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 27-30, 2007, pp. 71-74.
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[03] C. M. Ta, E. Skafidas, and R. J. Evans, "A 60-GHz Transmit/Receive Switch in CMOS," in Digest of Papers of the 2007 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2007), Honolulu, U.S., June 03-05, pp. 725-728.
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[02] C. M. Ta, C. H. Yong, and W. G. Yeoh, "A 2.7 mW, 0.064 mm² linear-in-dB VGA with 60 dB Tuning Range, 100 MHz Bandwidth, and Two DC Offset Cancellation Loops," in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT 2005), Singapore, Nov. 30 - Dec. 02, 2005, pp. 74-77.
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[01] C. M. Ta, F. Lin, and S. R. Chander, "New analytic DC model for tunnel diode," in Technical Digest of the 2004 Symposium on Microelectronics, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, June 2004.
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