Biography

Dana Weinstein joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in August 2009 as Assistant Professor. She is also a member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories. Dana received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2004, where she worked on ultra-fast X-ray streak camera design at the Advanced Light Source. She then moved to Cornell University, where she completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2009, working on RF Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

Research

Our research group focuses on the development of hybrid MEMS-CMOS devices for low-power wireless communication, microprocessor clocking, and sensing applications. In particular, we are working to harness the benefits of acoustic vibrations to enhance the performance of next-generation electron devices.

We are also pursuing the integration of such hybrid devices into CMOS-based systems, including low-power, narrow-bandwidth low noise amplifiers for transceivers and low phase-noise oscillator arrays for clock generation and temperature sensing in microprocessors.