Jason Stauth, Power and Energy Management Group, U.C. Berkeley

	Graduate Student EECS University of California Berkeley 550 Cory Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 (510)-552-0506 jtstauth 'at' eecs.berkeley.edu Graduating: August 2008
I am a graduate student in the power and energy group working under Professor Seth Sanders in the EECS Department at U.C. Berkeley. My broad research interests include areas of clean and renewable energy, power management, and integrated circuit design. I have worked on different projects ranging from rural photovoltaic systems to wideband DC-DC converters for portable and wireless applications. I was an IC designer for several years in analog and mixed-signal instrumentation for integrated silicon magnetic sensor systems (used in diverse consumer and automotive applications). The goal of my thesis is to reduce the energy consumption of wireless transmitters (portable and basestation). My past research has focused on issues related to dynamic supply regulation for cellular and 802.11a/g power amplifiers. Specifically, I have studied the effects of power supply noise on wireless blocks and have proposed optimum control and configuration schemes for hybrid switching-linear voltage regulators. I am also studying new high efficiency transceiver architectures that use digital modulation and data conversion techniques to achieve linear amplitude modulation with nonlinear amplifier components. I am also a member of the BWRC and work with Professor Ali Niknejad and his students.