About Me
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
Organisations
Research
See the Projects tab for information on past and current research projects.
Publications
UT Research Information System
Google Scholar Link
Education
Bachelor / Master thesis projects: drop me an email!
Affiliated Study Programmes
Bachelor
Master
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Projects
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
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré
(building no. 15), room C2007
Hallenweg 21
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré
C2007
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands