Richelle Smith

BIOGRAPHY 

Richelle L. Smith (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering-electrophysics from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2017, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2019, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2024.  Since 2025, she has been a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. 

She has held internship positions at Linear Technology (Milpitas, CA, USA), Rambus Labs (Sunnyvale, CA, USA), Stanford Brains in Silicon Lab (Stanford, CA, USA), TDK-InvenSense (San Jose, CA, USA), and Silicon Laboratories (Austin, TX, USA).  Her research interests include energy-efficient systems, analog & RF integrated circuit design, wireline transceivers, phase-domain communications, phase-domain oscillatory computing, and brain-inspired circuits.

Dr. Smith was a recipient of the 2013–2017 USC Trustee Full Tuition Scholarship, 2013 Rambus Innovator of the Future Scholarship, 2015 Tau Beta Pi Forge No. 42 Scholarship, 2016 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 2016 Astronaut Scholarship, 2017 USC Discovery Scholar Prize, 2017–2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017–2022 Sang Samuel Wang Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2019 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award, 2021 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship, 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 ARCS Foundation Northern California Fellowships (William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation Scholar), and 2022–2023 IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award. She holds 5 U.S. patents.  Dr. Smith serves as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part I: Regular Papers  and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part II: Express Briefs. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

I. Edge-Modulated Communications

1. Differential Edge Modulation Signaling for Low-Energy, High-Speed Wireline Communication,

Richelle L. Smith, Masum Hossain, Carl W. Werner, Joseph M. Kahn, and Thomas H. Lee, 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 3359–3372, Aug. 2023.

doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3279231 

2. Differential Edge Modulated Signaling with Encoded Clock and Dynamic Data Rate Scaling,

Richelle L. Smith, Shakib Mahmood, Can Ni, Aurangozeb, Joohee Kim, Carl W. Werner, and Masum Hossain,

IEEE Solid-State Circuit Letters, Vol. 4, March 2021.

doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2021.3069796 

3. Equalization Techniques for Time Domain Signaling,

Shakib Mahmood, Parneet Tethy, Richelle L. Smith, Carl W. Werner, and Masum Hossain, 

IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), pp. 1–3, Oct. 2024.

doi: 10.1109/EPEPS61853.2024.10754249

II. Phase-Domain Oscillatory Computing 

4. Quantum Computing Gate Emulation Using CMOS Oscillatory Cellular Neural Networks,

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee, 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 4541–4545, Oct. 2024.

doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2024.3397846

5. Polychronous Oscillatory Cellular Neural Networks for Solving Graph Coloring Problems, 

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee,

IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 156–164, March 2023.

doi: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3262204 

6. Analysis and Design of a Tetrahedral Oscillator,

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee,

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 75–79, Jan. 2022. 

doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2021.3097100 

7. Hybrid Frequency Domain Simulation Method to Speed-up Analysis of Injection Locked Oscillators,

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee,

IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 722–726, Aug. 2021.

doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS47672.2021.9531699

III. Brain-Inspired Circuits / Bio-Inspired Electronics for Biomedical Applications

8. Modeling of Injection Locking in Neurons for Neuromorphic and Biomedical Systems,

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee, 

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1–5, May 2021.

doi: 10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401122 

9. A Low Thermal Sensitivity Subthreshold-Current to Pulse-Frequency Converter for Neuromorphic Chips, 

Ben V. Benjamin, Richelle L. Smith, and Kwabena A. Boahen, 

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 956–964, Dec. 2023.

doi: 10.1109/JETCAS.2023.3321105

SPOTLIGHT Paper Award

10. An Analytical MOS Device Model With Mismatch and Temperature Variation for Subthreshold Circuits, 

Ben V. Benjamin, Richelle L. Smith, and Kwabena A. Boahen, 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 1826–1830, June 2023.

doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3234009 

IV. Radio Frequency & Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits

11. Hybrid Analysis and Simulation Methodology for Noise in Active Mixers,

Richelle L. Smith and Thomas H. Lee, 

IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 1–5, Aug. 2022.

doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS54063.2022.9859447

SELECTED POPULAR PRESS COVERAGE

1. Engineering Phenom Follows Footsteps of Female Researchers into Science,

University of Southern California News, March 2018.  Featured on homepage of USC News as “Editors Pick.”  

Coverage of my research, outreach, efforts to promote women in STEM, and horse polo.  

https://news.usc.edu/137445/engineering-phenom-follows-footsteps-of-female-researchers-into-science/

2. Meet 3 Astronaut Scholars Who Are Pushing the Frontiers of Science, 

Trojan Family Magazine, Summer 2018. 

Coverage of my research and volunteering, aimed at a general audience.  

https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/astronaut-scholarship-foundation-support-helps-usc-students/

3. National Merit Scholarship Featured Scholar: Richelle L. Smith 

National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2016–17 Annual Report, March 2018. 

Coverage of my research, teaching, and volunteering activities, written for a broad audience.  Quoted on how scholarships can change lives, on webpage for potential donors.  Profiled on their website as “Featured Scholar.”

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?pgid=760&gid=2&cid=1081