Mark S. Oude Alink (S'09 - M'14 - SM'19) received M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science in 2008 (both cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in 2013 (cum laude and awarded the prestigious Else Kooi award), all from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. After several years in industry as system and RFIC design engineer, he returned to his alma mater as professor within the IC-Design group. His research focuses on low-power and digitally-assisted circuits and systems for wireless communications. He has been serving on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) since 2018, also as chair of the Analog subcommittee and Best Paper committee, and was Guest Editor for the CICC 2020 and 2021 Special Issues in the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He currently serves as TPC-member in the RF/mmWave subcommittee of the European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC). Since 2022, he has been Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters. After holding several officer positions, he has become chair of the Joint MTT/AP Chapter in the IEEE Benelux Section in 2024.
Expertise
Physics
- Cross Correlation
- Spectra
- Detection
- Frequencies
Engineering
- Receivers
Computer Science
- Intermodulation
- Correlation
- Free Dynamic Range
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Courses academic year 2024/2025
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 191211208 - Internship EE
- 191211219 - Master Thesis Project
- 191211650 - Multi-Disciplinary Design Project
- 201600187 - Individual Project
- 201900223 - Capita Selecta Electrical Engineering
- 202001162 - Bachelor Thesis EE
- 202001434 - Internship EMSYS
- 202100255 - Embedded Signal Processing
- 202100256 - Survey Paper
- 202300070 - Final Project EMSYS
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 191211208 - Internship EE
- 191211219 - Master Thesis Project
- 191211650 - Multi-Disciplinary Design Project
- 201600017 - Final Project Preparation
- 201600187 - Individual Project
- 201900200 - Final Project EMSYS
- 201900223 - Capita Selecta Electrical Engineering
- 202001162 - Bachelor Thesis EE
- 202001434 - Internship EMSYS
- 202100254 - Complex System Design
- 202100255 - Embedded Signal Processing
- 202100256 - Survey Paper
- 202300070 - Final Project EMSYS
3D-ComS - Towards-6G mmWave NanoCell: the 3D Base Station for Joint Communication and Sensing (3D-ComS): mmWave frequencies are used for high-speed communication using focused beams, but could simultaneously be used for accurate sensing of environment. This is useful for monitoring in-car occupancy, heart rate detection, etc., but also to prevent communication performance degradation caused by dynamic blockage. In 3D-ComS, we will design a 3D mmWave array system with a minimal number of active, highly integrated antennas to enable digital beamforming at lower power consumption, and seek meaningful trade-offs between data rates and sensing performances.
PhD-student(s): Sepehr Khademi (Integrated Circuit Design), Nguyen Dao (Radio Systems), Xuankai Zhao (Electromagnetics, TU/e)
Sponsor(s): NWO (OTP), The Antenna Company, ASTRON, Bruco Integrated Circuits, NXP, TNO
Started: Sep 2023
5G RF Transceiver Integration (5GRFTI): development of a self-regulating Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) driver for high speed optical links for chip-to-chip and rack-to-rack applications, such as Radio-over-Fiber in 5G basestations.
PhD-student(s): Jelle Bakker
Sponsor(s): Bruco Integrated Circuits, Holland High Tech
Started: Oct 2020
Analog Approximate Accelerators (AAA): development of a SoC with accelerators that internally implement energy-consuming computations in the analog instead of the digital domain,while minimizing the necessary data converter overhead, and a fair benchmark with optimized digital (approximate) accelerators.
PhD-student(s): Shubham Yadav, Patrice Legaspi, Anojh Rajendra
Sponsor(s): NWO (OTP), arm, Dialog Semiconductor, ItoM
Started: Jan 2020
Ultra Low-Power Building Blocks (ULPBB): development of ultra low-power elements for the next generation Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard.
PhD-student(s): Maryam Dodangeh
Sponsor(s): Dialog Semiconductor, Holland High Tech
Started: Dec 2019
Instantaneous Multi-Beam Transmit Architectures: figuring out how to transmit multiple signals (simultaneously) in an antenna array, without compromising on power or linearity, e.g. by using multiple antenna elements per unit cell.
PhD-student(s): Anton Atanasov
Sponsor(s): TNO
Started: May 2019
Finished projects
AD-REM: Ad-hoc Dynamic Radio-spectrum Exploitation via Multi-phase Radio
The STW-project I worked on as a PhD-student together with Dlovan Mahrof and Amir Ghaffari. The PI was Eric Klumperink, co-PIs were Bram Nauta, André Kokkeler, and Gerard Smit
Address
University of Twente
Carré (building no. 15), room C2007
Hallenweg 23
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Carré C2007
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
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