Alec Yen

alecyen@mit.edu

Hello! My name is Alec and I'm a third-year PhD student at MIT working on superconducting quantum circuits.

Research

I research superconducting quantum circuits in the Quantum Coherent Electronics Group at MIT under Prof. Kevin O'Brien. I am interested in more scalable and modular architectures for qubit readout to push the performance of state-of-the-art quantum computers. I am funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship.

Past Work

Previously at MIT, I designed terahertz circuits under Prof. Ruonan Han, including design of a terahertz tripler in CMOS and the fabrication of a micromachined terahertz waveguide on silicon toward chip-scale molecular clock miniaturization.

I completed my undergrad at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in May 2020, with a major in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science. While there, I designed low power analog integrated circuits under Prof. Benjamin Blalock, built a through-the-windshield driver recognition security portal with Dr. Hector Santos-Villalobos at Oak Ridge National Lab, and developed optimizations for power system simulation under Prof. Hantao Cui.

Publications

Integrable timing on silicon wafer supporting CubeSats-based Communications, Navigation and Radio Science

Alec Yen, Mina Kim, Ruonan Han, Hamid Javadi, and Lin Yi

2022 AIAA Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery (ASCEND)
Sub-Terahertz Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Carbonyl Sulfide

Lin Yi, Hamid Javadi, Wei Zhang, James McKelvy, Mina Kim, Alec Yen, and Ruonan Han

2021 Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum and IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF/IFCS)
A High Slew Rate, Low Power, Compact Operational Amplifier Based on the Super-Class AB Recycling Folded Cascode

Alec Yen, and Ben Blalock

2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
A Sub-Threshold Low-Power Integrated Bandpass Filter for Highly-Integrated Spectrum Analyzers

Gavin Long, Nance Ericson, Charles Britton, Benjamin Roehrs, Ethan Farquhar, Shane Frank, Alec Yen, and Ben Blalock

2020 27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
Through the Windshield Driver Recognition

David Cornett, Alec Yen, Grace Nayola, Diane Montez, Christi Johnson, Seth Baird, and Hector Santos-Villalobos

2019 IS&T International Electronic Imaging
CXSparse-Based Differential Algebraic Equation Framework for Power System Simulation

Alec Yen, Hantao Cui, and Kevin Tomsovic

2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)