Publications

Huan-Cheng Liao, Shunyao Zhang, Yumin Su, Arvind Govinday, Yiwei Zou, Wei Wang, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Lei Li, Kaiyuan Yang. A Spatial-Domain Compressive Sensing Photoacoustic Imager with Matrix-Multiplying SAR ADC. 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2025.

Wei Wang, Yumin Su, Huan-Cheng Liao, Yiwei Zou, Tian Qiu, Kaiyuan Yang. A Miniature Biomedical Implant Secured by Two-Factor Authentication with Emergency Access. 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2025.

Qiang Zhou, Yan He, Yaolong Hu, Xiaohan Zhang, Kaiyuan Yang, Taiyun Chi. A Millimeter-Wave Antenna Subset Modulation Transmitter Array for Low-Overhead Physical-Layer Security Against Wireless Eavesdropping Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2024.

Wei Wang, Zhanghao Yu, Yiwei Zou, Joshua Woods, Prahalad Chari, Yumin Su, Kaiyuan Yang. Omnidirectional Wireless Power Transfer for Millimetric Magnetoelectric Biomedical Implants. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2024.

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Fatima Alrashdan, Kaiyuan Yang, Jacob T Robinson. Magnetoelectrics for implantable bioelectronics: Progress to date. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024.

Zhanghao Yu, Yiwei Zou, Huan-Cheng Liao, Fatima Alrashdan, Ziyuan Wen, Joshua E Woods, Wei Wang, Jacob T Robinson,, Kaiyuan Yang. A Miniature Batteryless Bioelectronic Implant Using One Magnetoelectric Transducer for Wireless Powering and PWM Backscatter Communication. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), 2024.

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Zhiyu Chen, Ziyuan Wen, Weier Wan, Akhil Pakala, Yiwei Zou, Wei-Chen Wei, Zengyi Li, Yubei Chen, Kaiyuan Yang. PICO-RAM: A PVT-Insensitive Analog Compute-In-Memory SRAM Macro With In Situ Multi-Bit Charge Computing and 6T Thin-Cell-Compatible Layout. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2024.

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Yonghee Chang, Naveed Ahmed, Kaiyuan Yang. Easily-Accessible Human Skin-Fat-Muscle Phantoms for Dependable In-Vitro Testing of Biomedical Devices. 2024 International Conference of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2024.

Qiufeng Rui, Noah Elzner, Qiang Zhou, Ziyuan Wen, Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang. Lightweight Machine Learning and Embedded Security Engine for Physical-Layer Identification of Wireless IoT Nodes. ICC 2024-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024.

Ziyuan Wen, Lingkun Kong, Alexis Le Glaunec, Konstantinos Mamouras, Kaiyuan Yang. BVAP: Energy and Memory Efficient Automata Processing for Regular Expressions with Bounded Repetitions. Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024.

Jacob T. Robinson, Joshua Woods, Kaiyuan Yang. Toward Exponential Growth of Therapeutic Neurotechnology. 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.

Wei Wang, Zhanghao Yu, Yiwei Zou, Joshua Woods, Prahalad Chari, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. Omnidirectional Magnetoelectric Power Transfer for Miniaturized Biomedical Implants via Active Echo. 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.

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Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang. A Synthesizable Design-Agnostic Timing Fault Injection Monitor Covering 2MHz to 1.26GHz Clocks in 65nm CMOS. 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.

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Zhanghao Yu, Huan-Cheng Liao, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Ziyuan Wen, Yiwei Zou, Joshua Woods, Wei Wang, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. A Millimetric Batteryless Biosensing and Stimulating Implant with Magnetoelectric Power Transfer and 0.9pJ/b PWM Backscatter. 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.

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Yi Huang, Lingkun Kong, Dibei Chen, Zhiyu Chen, Xiangyu Kong, Jianfeng Zhu, Konstantinos Mamouras, Shaojun Wei, Kaiyuan Yang, Leibo Liu. CASA: An Energy-Efficient and High-Speed CAM-based SMEM Seeding Accelerator for Genome Alignment. Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2023.

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Vishnu Nair, Ashley N Dalrymple, Zhanghao Yu, Gaurav Balakrishnan, Christopher J Bettinger, Douglas J Weber, Kaiyuan Yang, Jacob T Robinson. Miniature battery-free bioelectronics. Science, 2023.

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Qiang Zhou, Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang, Taiyun Chi. Physical-Layer Identification of Wireless IoT Nodes Through PUF-Controlled Transmitter Spectral Regrowth. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2023.

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Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang. A Fully Synthesizable 100Mbps Edge-Chasing True Random Number Generator. 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2023.

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Wei Wang, Liwen Jiang, Shayok Dutta, Yumin Su, Zhiyu Chen, Zhanghao Yu, Caleb Kemere, Kaiyuan Yang. A 36nW CMOS Temperature Sensor with <0.1K Inaccuracy and Uniform Resolution. 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2023.

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Zhanghao Yu, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Wei Wang, Matthew Parker, Xinyu Chen, Frank Chen, Joshua Woods, Zhiyu Chen, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. Magnetoeletric Backscatter Communication for Millimeter-Sized Wireless Biomedical Implants. ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 2023.

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Yan He, Dai Li, Zhanghao Yu, Kaiyuan Yang. ASCH-PUF: A “Zero” Bit Error Rate CMOS Physically Unclonable Function With Dual-Mode Low-Cost Stabilization. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2023.

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Zhanghao Yu, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Wei Wang, Matthew Parker, Xinyu Chen, Frank Chen, Joshua Woods, Zhiyu Chen, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. Magnetoelectric Backscatter Communication for Millimeter-Sized Wireless Biomedical Implants. ACM International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom), 2022.

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Weijian Li, Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang, Gururaj Naik. Scaling electrical percolation networks based on renormalization group theory. Applied Physics A, 2022.

Lingkun Kong, Qixuan Yu, Agnishom Chattopadhyay, Alexis Le Glaunec, Yi Huang, Konstantinos Mamouras, Kaiyuan Yang. Software-hardware codesign for efficient in-memory regular pattern matching. ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2022.

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Zhanghao Yu, Wei Wang, Joshua C. Chen, Zhiyu Chen, Yan He, Amanda Singer, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. A Wireless Network of 8.8mm³ Bio-Implants Featuring Adaptive Magnetoelectric Power and Multi-Access Bidirectional Telemetry. 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2022.

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Yi Huang, Zhiyu Chen, Dai Li, Kaiyuan Yang. CAMA: Energy and Memory Efficient Automata Processing in Content-Addressable Memories. IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2022.

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Joshua C. Chen, Peter Kan, Zhanghao Yu, Fatima Alrashdan, Roberto Garcia, Amanda Singer, C.S. Edwin Lai, Ben Avants, Scott Crosby, Michelle M. Felicella, Ariadna Robledo, Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Sunil A. Sheth, Kaiyuan Yang, Jacob T. Robinson. Wireless Endovascular Nerve Stimulation with a Millimeter-Sized Magnetoelectric Implant. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022.

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Dai Li, Akhil Pakala, Kaiyuan Yang. MeNTT: A Compact and Efficient Processing-in-Memory Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) Accelerator. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2022.

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Zhiyu Chen, Qing Jin, Zhanghao Yu, Yanzhi Wang, Kaiyuan Yang. DCT-RAM: A Driver-Free Process-In-Memory 8T SRAM Macro with Multi-Bit Charge-Domain Computation and Time-Domain Quantization. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022.

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Yan He, Qixuan Yu, Kaiyuan Yang. A Lossless and Modeling Attack-Resistant Strong PUF with <4E-8 Bit Error Rate. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022.

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Zhanghao Yu, Joshua C. Chen, Yan He, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Benjamin W. Avants, Amanda Singer, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. Magnetoelectric Bio-Implants Powered and Programmed by a Single Transmitter for Coordinated Multisite Stimulation. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021.

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Fatima T. Alrashdan Joshua C. Chen, Amanda Singer, Benjamin W. Avants, Kaiyuan Yang, Jacob T. Robinson. Wearable wireless power systems for ME-BIT magnetoelectric-powered bio implants. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2021.

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Zhiyu Chen, Qing Jin, Jingyu Wang, Yanzhi Wang, Kaiyuan Yang. MC2-RAM: An In-8T-SRAM Computing Macro Featuring Multi-Bit Charge-Domain Computing and ADC-Reduction Weight Encoding. 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2021.

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Dai Li, Yan He, Akhil Pakala, Kaiyuan Yang. MePLER: A 20.6-pJ Side-Channel-Aware In-Memory CDT Sampler. 2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2021.

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Zhiyu Chen, Zhanghao Yu, Qing Jin, Yan He, Jingyu Wang, Sheng Lin, Dai Li, Yanzhi Wang, Kaiyuan Yang. CAP-RAM: A Charge-Domain In-Memory Computing 6T-SRAM for Accurate and Precision-Programmable CNN Inference. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021.

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Zhanghao Yu, Joshua C. Chen, Yan He, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Benjamin W. Avants, Amanda Singer, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. Multisite Bio-stimulating Implants Magnetoelectrically Powered and Individually programmed by a single transmitter. 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021.

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Yan He, Dai Li, Zhanghao Yu, Kaiyuan Yang. 36.5 An Automatic Self-Checking and Healing Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with textless3×10-8 Bit Error Rate. 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021.

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Qiang Zhou, Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang, Taiyun Chi. 12.3 Exploring PUF-Controlled PA Spectral Regrowth for Physical-Layer Identification of IoT Nodes. 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021.

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Lan Luan, Jacob T. Robinson, Behnaam Aazhang, Taiyun Chi, Kaiyuan Yang, Xue Li, Haad Rathore, Amanda Singer, Sudha Yellapantula, Yingying Fan, Zhanghao Yu, Chong Xie. Recent Advances in Electrical Neural Interface Engineering: Minimal Invasiveness, Longevity, and Scalability. Neuron, 2020.

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Jongyup Lim, Myungjoon Choi, Bowen Liu, Taewook Kang, Ziyun Li, Zhehong Wang, Yiqun Zhang, Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim, Dennis Sylvester. AA-ResNet: Energy Efficient All-Analog ResNet Accelerator. 2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020.

Zhanghao Yu, Joshua C. Chen, Benjamin W. Avants, Yan He, Amanda Singer, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. An 8.2mm³ Implantable Neurostimulator with Magnetoelectric Power and Data Transfer. 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2020.

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Yan He, Kaiyuan Yang. 25.3 A 65nm Edge-Chasing Quantizer-Based Digital LDO Featuring 4.58ps-FoM and Side-Channel-Attack Resistance. 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2020.

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Zhanghao Yu, Joshua C. Chen, Fatima T. Alrashdan, Benjamin W. Avants, Yan He, Amanda Singer, Jacob T. Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang. MagNI: A Magnetoelectrically Powered and Controlled Wireless Neurostimulating Implant. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2020.

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Dai Li, Kaiyuan Yang. A Dual-Port 8-T CAM-Based Network Intrusion Detection Engine for IoT. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2020.

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Kaiyuan Yang. Custom CMOS and Post-CMOS Crossbar Circuits for Resource-Constrained Hardware Security Primitives. 2019 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2019.

Peiyu Chen, Dai Li, Zhanghao Yu, Qing Jin, Kaiyuan Yang. A 0.84pJ/cycle Wheatstone Bridge Based CMOS RC Oscillator with Reconfigurable Frequencies. 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2019.

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Sechang Oh, Minchang Cho, Xiao Wu, Yejoong Kim, Li-Xuan Chuo, Wootaek Lim, Pat Pannuto, Suyoung Bang, Kaiyuan Yang, Hun-Seok Kim, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. IoT2 — the Internet of Tiny Things: Realizing Mm-Scale Sensors through 3D Die Stacking. 2019 Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE), 2019.

Dai Li, Kaiyuan Yang. A 562F² Physically Unclonable Function with a Zero-Overhead Stabilization Scheme. 2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2019.

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Dai Li, Kaiyuan Yang. A Self-Regulated and Reconfigurable CMOS Physically Unclonable Function Featuring Zero-Overhead Stabilization. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2019.

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Kaiyuan Yang, Qing Dong, Zhehong Wang, Yi-Chun Shih, Yu-Der Chih, Jonathan Chang, David Blaauw, Dennis Svlvester. A 28nm Integrated True Random Number Generator Harvesting Entropy from MRAM. 2018 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2018.

Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. Hardware Designs for Security in Ultra-Low-Power IoT Systems: An Overview and Survey. IEEE Micro, 2017.

Qing Dong, Inhee Lee, Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 1.02nW PMOS-Only, Trim-Free Current Reference with 282ppm/°C from -40°C to 120°C and 1.6% within-Wafer Inaccuracy. ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, 2017.

Kaiyuan Yang, Matthew Hicks, Qing Dong, Todd Austin, Dennis Sylvester. Exploiting the Analog Properties of Digital Circuits for Malicious Hardware. Commun. ACM, 2017.

Yiqun Zhang, Li Xu, Kaiyuan Yang, Qing Dong, Supreet Jeloka, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. Recryptor: A Reconfigurable in-Memory Cryptographic Cortex-M0 Processor for IoT. 2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2017.

Supreet Jeloka, Kaiyuan Yang, Michael Orshansky, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. A Sequence Dependent Challenge-Response Puf Using 28nm SRAM 6T Bit Cell. 2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2017.

Qing Dong, Kaiyuan Yang, Laura Fick, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. Rectified-Linear and Recurrent Neural Networks Built with Spin Devices. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017.

Kaiyuan Yang, Qing Dong, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 553F² 2-Transistor Amplifier-Based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with 1.67% Native Instability. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.

Qing Dong, Yejoong Kim, Inhee Lee, Myungjoon Choi, Ziyun Li, Jingcheng Wang, Kaiyuan Yang, Yen-Po Chen, Junjie Dong, Minchang Cho, Gyouho Kim, Wei-Keng Chang, Yun-Sheng Chen, Yu-Der Chih, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 1Mb Embedded NOR Flash Memory with 39µW Program Power for Mm-Scale High-Temperature Sensor Nodes. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.

Kaiyuan Yang, Qing Dong, Wanyeong Jung, Yiqun Zhang, Myungjoon Choi, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 0.6nJ -0.22/+0.19°C Inaccuracy Temperature Sensor Using Exponential Subthreshold Oscillation Dependence. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.

Yiqun Zhang, Mahmood Khayatzadeh, Kaiyuan Yang, Mehdi Saligane, Nathaniel Pinckney, Massimo Alioto, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. iRazor: Current-Based Error Detection and Correction Scheme for PVT Variation in 40-nm ARM Cortex-R4 Processor. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2017.

Xiao Wu, Yao Shi, Supreet Jeloka, Kaiyuan Yang, Inhee Lee, Yoonmyung Lee, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. A 20-pW Discontinuous Switched-Capacitor Energy Harvester for Smart Sensor Applications. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2017.

Yiqun Zhang, Kaiyuan Yang, Mehdi Saligane, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A Compact 446 Gbps/W AES Accelerator for Mobile SoC and IoT in 40nm. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.

Xiao Wu, Yao Shi, Supreet Jeloka, Kaiyuan Yang, Inhee Lee, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. A 66pW Discontinuous Switch-Capacitor Energy Harvester for Self-Sustaining Sensor Applications. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.

Qing Dong, Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 114-pW PMOS-Only, Trim-Free Voltage Reference with 0.26% within-Wafer Inaccuracy for nW Systems. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.

Kaiyuan Yang, Matthew Hicks, Qing Dong, Todd Austin, Dennis Sylvester. A2: Analog Malicious Hardware. 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2016.

Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. An All-Digital Edge Racing True Random Number Generator Robust Against PVT Variations. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2016.

Yiqun Zhang, Mahmood Khayatzadeh, Kaiyuan Yang, Mehdi Saligane, Nathaniel Pinckney, Massimo Alioto, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. iRazor: 3-Transistor Current-Based Error Detection and Correction in an ARM Cortex-R4 Processor. 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016.

Wanyeong Jung, Junhua Gu, Paul D. Myers, Minseob Shim, Seokhyeon Jeong, Kaiyuan Yang, Myungjoon Choi, ZhiYoong Foo, Suyoung Bang, Sechang Oh, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. A 60%-Efficiency 20nW-500µW Tri-Output Fully Integrated Power Management Unit with Environmental Adaptation and Load-Proportional Biasing for IoT Systems. 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016.

Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A robust −40 to 120°C all-digital true random number generator in 40nm CMOS. 2015 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI Circuits), 2015.

Qing Dong, Kaiyuan Yang, Laura Fick, David Fick, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. Racetrack Converter: A Low Power and Compact Data Converter Using Racetrack Spintronic Devices. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015.

Kaiyuan Yang, Qing Dong, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A Physically Unclonable Function with BER <10^-8 for Robust Chip Authentication Using Oscillator Collapse in 40nm CMOS. 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2015.

Sechang Oh, Wanyeong Jung, Kaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. 15.4b Incremental Sigma-Delta Capacitance-to-Digital Converter with Zoom-in 9b Asynchronous SAR. 2014 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2014.

Kaiyuan Yang, David Fick, Michael B. Henry, Yoonmyung Lee, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. A 23Mb/s 23pJ/b Fully Synthesized True-Random-Number Generator in 28nm and 65nm CMOS. 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2014.

Qing Jin, Kaiyuan Yang, Chunyuan Zhou, Dongxu Yang, Lei Zhang, Yan Wang, Zhiping Yu, Weidong Geng. A Transformer-Based Filtering Technique to Lower LC-Oscillator Phase Noise. 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012.

Kaiyuan Yang, Dae Hyun Kim, Sung Kyu Lim. Design Quality Tradeoff Studies for 3D ICs Built with Nano-Scale TSVs and Devices. 2012 13th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2012.