Publications

Journal, Conference and Magazine Articles

2024

Q. Liu, D. Arguijo, A. Yaşar, D. Çaygara, A. Kassem, D. Densmore, and R. T. Yazicigil, “Droplet Microfluidics Co-Designed with Real-Time CMOS Luminescence Sensing and Impedance Spectroscopy of 4nL Droplets at a 67mm/s Velocity”, with a live hardware demonstration, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.
A. Riaz, Z. E. Kizilates, M. Medard, K. Duffy, and R. T. Yazicigil, “An Ultra-low Energy Soft-Detection Decoder using ORBGRAND”, accepted to be published at the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) Demo, 2024.

2023

E. Lee, M. I. W. Khan, X. Chen, U. Banerjee, N. Monroe, R. T. Yazicigil, R. Han, and A. P. Chandrakasan., “A 1.54-mm^2 , 264-GHz Wake-Up Receiver With Integrated Cryptographic Authentication for Ultra-Miniaturized Platforms”, in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2023.
A. Yasar and R. T. Yazicigil, “Physical-Layer Security for Energy-Constrained Integrated Systems: Challenges and Design Perspectives,” IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, 2023.
T. Zirtiloglu, P. Crary, E. Tasci, A. Riaz, Y. C. Eldar, N. Shlezinger, and R. T. Yazicigil, “Task-Specific Low-Power Beamforming MIMO Receiver Using 2-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converters,” 2023 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2023.
M. E. Inda-Webb, M. Jimenez, Q. Liu, N. V. Phan, J. Ahn, C. Steiger, A. Wentworth, A. Riaz, T. Zirtiloglu, K. Wong, K. Ishida, N. Fabian, J. Jenkins, J. Kuosmanen, W. Madani, R. McNally, Y. Lai, A. Hayward, M. Mimee, P. Nadeau, A. P. Chandrakasan, G. Traverso, R. T. Yazicigil & T. K. Lu, “Sub-1.4 cm3 capsule for detecting labile inflammatory biomarkers in situ”, Nature, 2023.
Z. E. Kizilates, A. Riaz, G. F. Coraluppi, M. Médard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Leveraging noise recycling in soft detection decoding using ORBGRAND”, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023.
F. Ercan, K. Galligan, D. Starobinski, M. Medard, K. Duffy, and R. T. Yazicigil, “GRAND-EDGE: A Universal, Jamming-resilient Algorithm with Error-and-Erasure Decoding”, 2023 IEEE IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.
Q. Liu, M. Jimenez, M. E. Inda, A. Riaz, T. Zirtiloglu, A. P. Chandrakasan, T. K. Lu, G. Traverso, P. Nadeau, R. T. Yazicigil, “A Threshold-Based Bioluminescence Detector With a CMOS-Integrated Photodiode Array in 65 nm for a Multi-Diagnostic Ingestible Capsule,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSCC), 2023.
A. Riaz, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, J. Ngo, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. Duffy, and R. T. Yazicigil, “A Sub-0.8pJ/b 16.3Gbps/mm^2 Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND in 40nm CMOS”, with a live hardware demonstration, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023.
A. Riaz, A. Solomon, F. Ercan, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil, and K. R. Duffy, “Noise Recycling using GRAND for Improving the Decoding Performance”, best demo award, 2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2023.
R. Agrawal, L. de Castro, G. Yang, C. Juvekar, R. T. Yazicigil, A. Chandrakasan, V. Vaikuntanathan, and A. Joshi, “FAB: An FPGA-based Accelerator for Bootstrappable Homomorphic Encryption”, 29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023.

2022

A. Yasar, Q. Liu, M. Mao, D. Starobinski and R. T. Yazicigil, “Live Demonstration: Cyber Attack Against an Ingestible Medical Device”, 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2022.
F. Ercan, K. Galligan, K. R. Duffy, M. Médard, D. Starobinski, R. T. Yazicigil, “A General Security Approach for Soft-information Decoding against Smart Bursty Jammers,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2022.
A. Riaz, D. Nash, J. Ngo, C. Juvekar, P. Nadeau, T. Yu, R. T. Yazicigil, “Security Assessment of Phase-Based Ranging Systems in a Multipath Environment,” ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), 2022.
J. Woo, M. I. W. Khan, M. I. Ibrahim, R. Han, A. P. Chandrakasan, R. T. Yazicigil, “Physical-Layer Security for THz Communications via Orbital Angular Momentum Waves,” IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), 2022.
R. Agrawal, L. de Castro, G. Yang, C. Juvekar, R. T. Yazicigil, A. Chandrakasan, V. Vaikuntanathan, A. Joshi, “FAB: An FPGA-based Accelerator for Bootstrappable Fully Homomorphic Encryption,” (preprint), 2022.
A. Riaz, A. Solomon, F. Ercan, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil and K. R. Duffy, “Interleaved Noise Recycling using GRAND,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022.
T. Zirtiloglu, N. Shlezinger, Y. C. Eldar, R. T. Yazicigil, “Power-Efficient Hybrid MIMO Receiver with Task-Specific Beamforming using Low-Resolution ADCs,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2022.
ME Inda, M Jimenez, Q Liu, NV Phan, J Ahn, C Steiger, A Wentworth, A Riaz, T Zirtiloglu, K Wong, K Ishida, N Fabian, J Jenkins, J Kuosmanen, W Madani, R McNally, Y Lai, A Hayward, M Mimee, P Nadeau, AP Chandrakasan, G Traverso, RT Yazicigil, TK Lu, “Ingestible capsule for detecting labile inflammatory biomarkers in situ,” (preprint), 2022.
M. I. W. Khan, J. Woo, X. Yi, M. I. Ibrahim, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan, R. Han, “A 0.31-THz Orbital-Angular-Momentum (OAM) Wave Transceiver in CMOS With Bits-to-OAM Mode Mapping,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, issue 5, January 2022.
A. Riaz, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy and R. T. Yazicigil, “A Universal Maximum Likelihood GRAND Decoder in 40nm CMOS,” 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2022.

2021

K. Galligan, A. Solomon, A. Riaz, M. Médard, R. T. Yazicigil and K. R. Duffy, “IGRAND: decode any product code,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021.
X. Yi, C. Wang, Z. Hu, J. W. Holloway, M. I. W. Khan, M. I. Ibrahim, M. Kim, G. C. Dogiamis, B. Perkins, M. Kaynak, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan, R. Han, “Emerging Terahertz Integrated Systems in Silicon,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2021.
A. Riaz, V. Bansal, A. Solomon, W. An, Q. Liu, K. Galligan, K. R. Duffy, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil, “Multi-Code Multi-Rate Universal Maximum Likelihood Decoder using GRAND,” IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2021.
S. Maji, U. Banerjee, S. H. Fuller, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan, “Securing Embedded Medical Devices using Dual-Factor Authentication,” IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2021.
M. I. W. Khan, J. Woo, X. Yi, M. I. Ibrahim, R. T. Yazicigil, A. Chandrakasan, R. Han, “A 0.31THz CMOS Uniform Circular Antenna Array Enabling Generation/Detection of Waves with Orbital-Angular Momentum,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2021.
Q. Liu, A. Riaz, T. Zirtiloglu, M. E. Inda, M. Jimenez, Y. Lai, C. Steiger, E. Diamond, G. Traverso, T. Lu, A. P. Chandrakasan, P. M. Nadeau, R. T. Yazicigil, “Zero-Crossing-Based Bio-Engineered Sensor,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021.

2020

S Maji, U Banerjee, RT Yazicigil, SH Fuller, AP Chandrakasan, “Secure System for Implantable Drug Delivery,” Research Abstracts, 2020.
R. T. Yazicigil, “Ingestible microbioelectronic sensors for disease monitoring and diagnosis,” Sensores Biometicos, 2020.
M. I. Ibrahim, M. I. W. Khan, C. S. Juvekar, W. Jung, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan and R. Han, “29.8 THzID: A 1.6mm2 Package-Less Cryptographic Identification Tag with Backscattering and Beam-Steering at 260GHz,” IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference – (ISSCC), February 2020.
R. T. Yazicigil et al., “Beyond Crypto: Physical-Layer Security for Internet of Things Devices,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2020.
M. I. W. Khan, M. I. Ibrahim, C. S. Juvekar, W. Jung, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan and R. Han, “A 1.6-mm² Package-Less Identification Tag Using Asymmetric Cryptography and 260-GHz Far-Field Backscatter Communication”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2020.
S. Maji, U. Banerjee, S. H. Fuller, M. R. Abdelhamid, P. M. Nadeau, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Low-Power Dual-Factor Authentication Unit for Secure Implantable Devices”, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2020.
M. I. Ibrahim, M. I. W. Khan, C. S. Juvekar, W. Jung, R. T. Yazicigil, A. P. Chandrakasan and R. Han, “THzID: A 1.6mm² Package-Less Cryptographic Identification Tag with Backscattering and Beam-Steering at 260GHz”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2020.

2019

R. T. Yazicigil, D. Gopalan and D. Starobinski, “Security Assessment of Wideband Spectrum Sensors”, IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySpan), November 2019.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, P. R. Kinget, and J. Wright, “Taking Compressive Sensing to the Hardware Level: Breaking Fundamental Radio-Frequency Hardware Performance Tradeoffs,” Feature Article in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2019.

2018

R. T. Yazicigil, P. Nadeau, D. Richman, C. Juvekar, K. Vaidya, and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Ultra-Fast Bit-Level Frequency-Hopping Transmitter for Securing Low-Power Wireless Devices,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2018), 2018.

2017

R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, M. Kumar, J. Yuan, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “How to Make Analog-to-Information Converters Work in Dynamic Spectrum Environments with Changing Sparsity Conditions,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–I (TCAS-I), vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-10, Nov. 2017.
P. Nadeau, R. T. Yazicigil, and A. Chandrakasan, “Single-BAW Multi-Channel Transmitter with Low Power and Fast Start-Up Time,” IEEE 43rd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2017), 2017.

2016

R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “Band-Pass Compressive Sampling as an Enabling Technology for Rapid Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing,” invited paper in the 2016 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, M. Kumar, J. Yuan, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “A Compressed-Sampling Time-Segmented Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter for Wideband Rapid Detection of up to 6 Interferers with Adaptive Thresholding,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2016), 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Zhu, Y. Xu, and P. R. Kinget, “RF Circuit and System Innovations for a New Generation of Wireless Terminals,” invited paper in the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2016), 2016.

2015

R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, M. R. Whalen, J. Yuan, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “Wideband Rapid Interferer Detector Exploiting Compressed Sampling with a Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter,” invited paper in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2015.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, M. R. Whalen, J. Yuan, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “A 2.7-to-3.7GHz Rapid Interferer Detector Exploiting Compressed Sampling with a Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2015), 2015. The compressed sampling rapid interferer detector system was also demonstrated at the ISSCC demo session in a live experiment that show cases the rapid detection of up to 3 interferers over a 1GHz-wide spectrum. A video is available here.
T. Haque, R. T. Yazicigil, K. J.-L. Pan, J. Wright, and P. R. Kinget, “Theory and Design of a Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter for Energy-Efficient Wideband Spectrum Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–I (TCAS-I), 2015.

Poster Presentations and Hardware Demos

2024

Q. Liu, D. Arguijo, A. Yaşar, D. Çaygara, A. Kassem, D. Densmore, and R. T. Yazicigil, “Droplet Microfluidics Co-Designed with Real-Time CMOS Luminescence Sensing and Impedance Spectroscopy of 4nL Droplets at a 67mm/s Velocity”, Poster Presentation with a Live Hardware Demo, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.

2023

Q. Liu, D. Arguijo, A. Yasar, D. McIntyre, D. Caygara, D. Densmore, and R. T. Yazicigil, “Hybrid Bio-electronic Microfluidic Memory Arrays”, Poster Presentation with a Live Hardware Demonstration, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) SRP, 2023 [BEST POSTER/DEMO AWARD].
A. Riaz, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, J. Ngo, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. Duffy, and R. T. Yazicigil, “A Sub-0.8pJ/b 16.3Gbps/mm2 Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND in 40nm CMOS”, Poster Presentation with a Live Hardware Demo, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023.
A. Riaz, A. Solomon, F. Ercan, M. Médard, R. T. Yazicigil, K. R. Duffy, “Noise Recycling using GRAND for Improving the Decoding Performance”, Live Hardware Demo, IEEE COMSNETS,2023 [BEST DEMO AWARD].
A. Riaz, Z. E. Kizilates, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Demo: Universal Soft-Detection Decoder with Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Using ORBGRAND,” 2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2023.

2022

A. Riaz, F. Ercan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Improving the Performance using Noise Recycling for Single Communication Channels,” Live Hardware Demo, 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum, Montreal, Canada [BEST DEMO AWARD].
A. Yasar, Q. Liu, M. Mao, D. Starobinski and R. T. Yazicigil, “Live Demonstration: Cyber Attack Against an Ingestible Medical Device”, 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2022.

2021

Q. Liu, T. Zirtiloglu, M. E. Inda, M. Jimenez, Y. Lai, C. Steiger, E. Diamond, G. Traverso, T. Lu, A. P. Chandrakasan, P. M. Nadeau, R. T. Yazicigil, “Zero-Crossing-Based Bio-Engineered Sensor,” Poster Presentation with a Live Hardware Demonstration, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) SRP 2021
A. Riaz, K. R. Duffy, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil, “Universal Decoder using GRAND,” Virtual Demo, 2021 IEEE 5G World Forum.
A. Riaz, V. Bansal, A. Solomon, W. An, K. R. Duffy, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil, “Universal Decoder using GRAND,”Poster Presentation with a Live Hardware Demonstration, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) SRP, 2021

Conference Workshops and Seminars

2018

R. T. Yazicigil, “Secure and Spectrum-Aware Wireless Communications: Challenges and Opportunities”, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) and Analog Garage, Oct. 2018.
R. T. Yazicigil and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Innovating Secure IoT Solutions for Extreme Environments”, The Future of Nanoscale Electronics, MIT, 2018.

2017

R. T. Yazicigil, “A System-Level Approach to Secure and Spectrum-Aware Wireless Communications”, Columbia University, Nov. 2017.
R. T. Yazicigil, P. Nadeau, D. Richman, C. Juvekar and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Cryptographically Secure Bit-Level Frequency Hopping for Next-Generation Wireless Communications”, MIT Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2017.
R. T. Yazicigil, P. Nadeau, D. Richman, C. Juvekar and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Cryptographically Secure Bit-Level Frequency Hopping for Next-Generation Wireless Communications”, MIT Media Lab, 2017.
R. T. Yazicigil and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Energy-Efficient Integrated Circuits and Wireless Systems for Secure IoT”, MIT nano day invited speaker, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), 2017.
R. T. Yazicigil, P. Nadeau, D. Richman, C. Juvekar and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Secure Radios for IoT”, Amgen, MIT Visit, 2017.
R. T. Yazicigil, P. Nadeau, D. Richman, C. Juvekar and A. P. Chandrakasan, “Secure Radios for IoT”, MAS Holdings, MIT Visit, 2017.

2016

R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright and P. R. Kinget, “Compressive Sampling as an Enabling Solution for Rapid Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing in Emerging Cognitive Radio Systems”, invited speaker, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright and P. R. Kinget, “Compressive Sampling as an Enabling Technology for Energy-Efficient Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing”, invited speaker, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, “Spectrum Crunch? – RF Circuit and System Innovations to Tackle the Spectrum Scanning Challenge”, 2016 IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) workshop organizer and moderator, Sept. 2016. The “Spectrum Sensing” workshop is co-organized by Prof. Peter R. Kinget, Columbia University and Dr. Jan Craninckx, IMEC.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright and P. R. Kinget, “Rapid and Wideband RF Interferer Detectors Exploiting Compressed Sampling”, “Spectrum Sensing” workshop invited speaker, 2016 IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright and P. R. Kinget, “Compressive Sampling as an Enabling Solution for Rapid Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing in Emerging Cognitive Radio System”, invited speaker, MIT High-Speed Communication Circuits Class (6.776), 2016.
R. T. Yazicigil, 2016 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) mini-workshop organizer and moderator, “Recent Advances in Analog Circuit Design” by Prof. Willy Sansen, KU Leuven, Dr. Gabriele Manganaro, ADI and Prof. Peter R. Kinget, Columbia University, May 2016. The workshop is co-organized by Bruce Hecht, ADI and Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan, MIT. The workshop is highlighted in the Solid-State Circuits magazine article “Spotlight on Member Benefits”, by the President of SSCS, Prof. Jan Van der Spiegel.

2015

R. T. Yazicigil, T. Haque, J. Wright and P. R. Kinget, “Enabling 5/Next-G Wireless Communications with Energy‐Efficient Rapid Spectrum Sensors”, invited speaker, Summer@SEAS 2015 at Columbia University. Her talk was followed by the live demonstration of her CS rapid interferer detector system.