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Josephine Ammer


Josephine Ammer
Assistant Professor
Digital VLSI and Communications
442 EE/CSE
Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

Phone: (206) 543-6061
E-mail: josie (at) ee.washington.edu

University of California Berkeley, 2004 Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 M.Eng.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 B.S.

[Biosketch] [Research Interests] [Selected Publications] [Teaching] Honors]

Biosketch

Josephine Ammer joined the faculty of the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering in the Spring of 2006. She received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1997 and 1999 respectively working with Dr. Tom Knight. In 2004, she completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley working with Prof. Jan Rabaey at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

Within industry, she has worked on wireless system design for Mobilian (now Intel), developed a wireless interference model for the IEEE 802.15.2 task group on coexistence, participated in the design of several liquid-crystal-on-silicon displays currently in production at the MicroDisplay Corp., and performed technology evaluation for several venture capital firms including Tallwood Venture Capital. Most recently, she was a wireless systems consultant for 3Plus1 Technology, Inc. developing wireless physical layer baseband applications, such as WiFi, GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, and WiMax.

Research Interests

Generally: Integrated circuits and algorithms for wireless communication. Specifically: where communication algorithms and their VLSI implementations must be co-designed to meet some constraint such as ultra-low power, or ultra-high throughput. These include: sensor networks, MIMO and multi-antenna systems, and adaptive and cognitive radios. She is also interested in reconfigurable circuit architectures for multi-mode wireless devices, and reliable circuit architectures and algorithms for wireless.

Selected Publications

(complete publications)
  1. Josie Ammer, Fred Burghardt, En-yi Lin, Brian Otis, Rahul Shah, Mike Sheets, and Jan M. Rabaey, “Ultra-Low Power Integrated Wireless Nodes for Sensor and Actuator Networks,” in Ambient Intelligence, W. Weber, J. Rabaey, and E. Aarts, Ed. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  2. Kimmu Kuusilinna, Chen Chang, M. Josephine Ammer, Brian Richards, and Robert W. Brodersen, “Designing BEE: a hardware emulation engine for signal processing in low-power wireless applications,” EURASIP JASP special issue on Rapid Prototyping of DSP Systems, Vol. 2003, No. 6, May1, 2003.
  3. W. Rhett Davis, Ning Zhang, Kevin Camera, Dejan Markoviæ, Tina Smilkstein, M. Josie Ammer, Engling Yeo, Stephanie Augsburger, Borivoje Nikolic, and Robert W. Brodersen, “A Design Environment for High-Throughput, Low-Power Dedicated Signal Processing Systems,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 37, March 2002.
  4. Jan M. Rabaey, M. Josie Ammer, Julio L. da Silva Jr., Danny Patel, and Shad Roundy, “PicoRadio Supports Ad Hoc Ultra Low-Power Wireless Networking,” IEEE Computer, July 2000.
  5. Josephine Ammer, Jan Rabaey, “Low Power Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Network Modems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
  6. M. Josie Ammer, Jan Rabaey, “Frequency Offset Estimation with Improved Convergence Time and Energy Consumption,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA), Sydney, Australia, August 31- September 2, 2004.
  7. M. Sheets, B. Otis, F. Burghardt, J. Ammer, T. Karalar, P. Monat, and J. Rabaey, “A 5.8x3.3 cm^2 Self-contained Energy-scavenging Wireless Sensor Network Node,” Proceedings of the Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Conference, Abano Terme, Italy, September 12-15, 2004.
  8. M. Josie Ammer, Michael Sheets, Tufan C. Karalar, Mika Kuulusa, Jan Rabaey, “A Low-Energy Chip-Set for Wireless Intercom,” Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, CA, June 2-6, 2003.
  9. J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, T. Karalar, S. Li, B. Otis, M. Sheets, T. Tuan, “PicoRadios for Wireless Sensor Networks: The Next Challenge in Ultra-Low-Power Design,” Proceedings of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 3-7, 2002.
  10. W. Rhett Davis, Ning Zhang, Kevin Camera, Dejan Markovic, Tina Smilkstein, Nathan Chan, M. Josie Ammer, Engling Yeo, Borivoje Nikolic, Robert W. Brodersen, “An Automated Design Flow for Low-Power, High-Throughput Dedicated Signal Processing Systems.” Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 4-7, 2001.
  11. Julio L. da Silva Jr., M. Josie Ammer, Jason Shamberger, et al., “Design Methodologies for PicoRadio Networks,” Proceedings of the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference, Munich, Germany, March 2001.
  12. J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, J. L. da Silva Jr., D. Patel, “PicoRadio: Ad-hoc Wireless Networking of Ubiquitous Low-Energy Sensor/Monitor Nodes,” Proceedings of the WVLSI, Orlando, FL, USA, April 2000.

Teaching

Fall 2006: Digital Integrated Circuit Design (EE476)

Honors

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