Vinay Chenna

About Me:

I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York. I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the ACME Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working with Prof. Constantine Sideris. I earned my Ph.D. at the HH Lab in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Hossein Hashemi. My research broadly encompasses radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design, with a special focus on leveraging computational techniques and optimization algorithms to rapidly and autonomously synthesize beyond-human, nonintuitive RFICs with high performance and compact chip area. In addition, I work on developing fundamentally novel analog and RF circuit design techniques and topologies to further improve circuit performance. 

I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, in 2019, where I was jointly advised by Prof. S. Aniruddhan and Prof. Hossein Hashemi on mm-Wave N-path filters and mixers for my Bachelor's thesis. 

I firmly believe that necessity drives innovation, and that true breakthroughs arise from continually challenging well-established scientific beliefs and their underlying assumptions. Rethinking problems from a fundamentally different perspective and embracing lateral thinking unlocks novel solutions and groundbreaking approaches.