Address: Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1308 West Main Street Urbana, IL 61801-2307 USA Tel: +1 (217) 244-0041 Fax: +1 (217) 244-1946 Email:
Professor Naresh Shanbhag

Research Theme:

See VLSI Information Processing Systems (ViPS) Research Group Home page for details.

Teaching:

• ECE 442: Electronic Circuits
• ECE 482: Digital IC Design
• ECE 410: Digital Signal Processing
• ECE 560: VLSI in Signal Processing and Communications
• ECE 497(SMR): Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design (Fall '03)

• ECE 371NS: VLSI Signal Processing Architectures (Fall '99)

• ECE 497ESD: Embedded System Design (Spring '00)
• ECE 325     : VLSI System Design (Spring '97)
• ECE 326     : Advanced VLSI System Design (Fall '97)

Brief Bio:

Naresh Shanbhag is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana , IL , USA . His research interests are in the area of robust,  low-power/high-performance integrated circuits and systems with applications in communications.

Prof. Shanbhag received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Minnesota , located in Minneapolis , USA , in 1993. From 1993, Dr. Shanbhag worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he lead the development of its 51.84 Mb/s ATM-LAN and VDSL chip-sets before joining the University of Illinois in 1995. Dr. Shanbhag became an IEEE Fellow in 2006, received the 2001 IEEE Transactions on VLSI Best Paper Award, the 1999 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Best Paper Award, the 1999 Xerox Faculty Award, the Distinguished Lecturership from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1997, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1996, and the 1994 Darlington Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. 

From 1997-99 and from 1999-2002, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems: Part II and the IEEE Transactions on VLSI, respectively. He is presently serving on the technical program committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), the International Symposium on Low-Power Design (ISLPED), the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), the IEEE Signal Processing Systems Workshop (SiPS), and the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

Prof. Shanbhag is a co-founder (along with Prof. Singer) and Chief Technology Officer of Intersymbol Communications, Inc., (a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodeos Communications, Inc., since March 2006) Champaign, IL, USA, which was founded in 2000, and where he provides strategic directions in the development of DSP-based mixed-signal receivers for next generation optical fiber links.