Tan-Tan Zhang, Tandy

Personal Profile

Tan-Tan Zhang received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China, in 2008 and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (now Electrical and Computer Engineering) from the University of Macau, Macao, China, in 2010, where he is currently a potential Ph.D. graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests include the design of ultra-low power circuits and systems for biomedical applications, specializing in smart CMOS temperature sensors, CMOS pressure sensors, and ultra-low power analog design techniques.

Professional Summary

• Over 8 years of ultra-low-power analog/mixed-signal IC design experience at the State Key Laboratory.
• Experienced in design of ultra-low-power circuits and systems for biomedical applications and energy efficient sensor interface (over 6 chips in different processes).
• Solid foundation and deep understanding both in system and circuit level designs, as well as the performance limits and tradeoffs in IC designs, especially in analyzing and designing switched-capacitor circuits, low-noise and low-power analog circuits.
• Experienced with analog blocks of such as filters, instrumentation amplifiers, bandgap reference, operational amplifier and ADC (SAR, Incremental, ΔΣ), and system-level design of bio-potential acquisition and multi-sensing interface (for both wearable and implantable).
• Proficient in Cadence IC design tools and software to support the design and measurements.

Education

1. Ph.D. in EEE at University of Macau, expected in 12/2017.

Advisor: Prof. Man-Kay Law and Prof. Mang-I Vai.

Dissertation: “Nano-Watt Class Circuits and Systems for Biomedical Applications.”

2. M.Sc. in EEE at University of Macau, 09/2010.

Advisor: Prof. Mang-I Vai and Prof. Pui-In Mak.

Thesis: “Nano-Watt-Class Subthreshold-Biased Source-Follower-Based LPFs for Biopotential Signal Acquisition Systems.”

3. B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Automation at Fuzhou University, 07/2008.

Research Projects

Selected Publications

1. Tan-Tan Zhang, Man-Kay Law, Pui-In Mak, R. P. Martins, Mang-I Vai, “Student Research Preview,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2017.
2. Tan-Tan Zhang, Man-Kay Law, Bo Wang, Pui-In Mak, R. P. Martins, Mang-I Vai, “A 550 nW MEMS Readout Using an Iterative-Incremental ADC Achieving Energy-Efficient Capacitance and Temperature Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-1: Regular paper (TCAS-1), revision submitted.
3. Tan-Tan Zhang, Man-Kay Law, Bo Wang, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, R. P. Martins, “A 310 nW 15-bit Iterative-Incremental ADC for Wearable Sensing Systems,” in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2017.
4. Jia-Li Ma, Tan-Tan Zhang and Ming-Chui Dong, “A Novel ECG Data Compression Method Using Adaptive Fourier Decomposition with Security Guarantee in e-Health Applications,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 986-994, May 2015.
5. Tan-Tan Zhang, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, Peng-Un Mak, Man-Kay Law, Sio-Hang Pun, Feng Wan, R. P. Martins, “15-nW Biopotential LPFs in 0.35-μm CMOS Using Subthreshold-Source-Follower Biquads With and Without Gain Compensation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 690-702, Oct. 2013.
6. Yan-Jie Xiao, Tan-Tan Zhang, Pui In Mak, Man-Kay Law and R. P. Martins, “A 0.8 μW 8-Bit 1.5~20-pF Input-Range Capacitance-to-Digital Converter for Lab-on-Chip Digital Microfluidics Systems”, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), pp. 384-387, Nov. 2012
7. Tan-Tan Zhang, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, Peng-Un Mak, Feng Wan and R. P. Martins, “An ultra-low-power filtering technique for biomedical applications,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp: 1859-1862, 2011.
8. Tan-Tan Zhang, Jin-Tao Li, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, Peng-Un Mak, Sio-Hang Pun, Feng Wan, R. P. Martins. “A 28-μW EEG readout front-end utilizing a current-mode instrumentation amplifier and a source-follower-based LPF,” in IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia), 2010 Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research, pp. 396-399, 2010.
9. Chang-Hao Chen, Pui-In Mak, Tan-Tan Zhang, Mang-I Vai, Peng-Un Mak, Sio-Hang Pun, Feng Wan, R. P. Martins, “A 2.4 Hz-to-10 kHz-Tunable Biopotential Filter Using a Novel Capacitor Multiplier,” in IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia), pp. 372-375, Jan. 2009.

Internships

11/2007 – 2/2008 SICK AG in Waldkirch, Germany, under supervision of Dr. Benno Bohn about design of

industrial sensors.

3/2008 – 6/2008 SICK Maihak in Beijing, China, under supervision of Dr. Jian-Bin Chen about remote

control of the distributed sensors.

Honors and Awards

1/2017 Student Travel Grant Award, ISSCC 2017

9/2014 – present Student Fellowship, University of Macau

9/2010 – 8/2014 Ph.D Studentship, University of Macau

9/2008 – 9/2010 Postgraduate Studentship, China Ministry of Education

7/2008 Excellent Graduate Honor, Fuzhou University

1/2008 National Scholarship, China Ministry of Education

6/2007 3^rd Place, National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest

9/2004 – 6/2007 1^st Place Scholarship (6 times), Fuzhou University

Hobbies

Badminton

Running

the 33rd and 35th Macau International Marathon