Ron-Chi Kuo

Ron-Chi Kuo

Office:      513 New Engineering Building

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Research Interests

  • Near-Field and Far-Field Wireless Power Transfer
  • RF/Microwave Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Reliability IssueŸ

Biography

  • Ron-Chi Kuo started pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida since 2011.

Honors and Awards

  • Second place of Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference, 2016.
  • Travel Grant awarded by IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference and US Army, 2016.
  • Overall Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference, 2015. (Award rate: 1/93)
  • Winner of the “Graduate Student Challenge” competition in IEEE MTT Society Annual Conference, 2012. (IMS 2012)
  • PhD student scholarship initiative of IEEE MTT Society Annual Conference, 2012.
  • Gold Leaf (first prize winner) in the  best paper award contest of Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics, 2011.
  • Ranked 5th in the Prelim of National IC Contest, Taiwan, 2011. (Analog IC category)
  • Hsing Tian Kong Scholarship for talented students since 2011.
  • Research scholarship sponsored by Taiwan IC Design Society, 2007.

Work Experience

  • Graduate Technical Intern @MediaTek Inc., Woburn, MA, May 2014-Dec. 2014.
    • Developed a 3D wireless charging system to support multiple consumer electronics simultaneously.
    • The coupling coefficient and the magnetic flux density are uniform in the entire charging area.

Selected Publications

Journals

  • Chua-Chin Wang, Ron-Chi Kuo, and Tung-Han Tsai, “A high precision low dropout regulator with nested feedback loops,” Microelectronics J., vol. 42, pp.966-971, Jul. 2011.
  • Chua-Chin Wang, Ron-Chi Kuo, and Jen-Wei Liu, “0.9 V to 5 V bidrectional mixed-voltage I/O buffer with an ESD protection output stage,” IEEE Trans. of Circuits Syst. II Exp. Briefs, vol. 57, no. 8, pp.612-616, Aug. 2010.
  • Chua-Chin Wang, Chih-Lin Chen, Ron-Chi Kuo, and Doron shmilovitz, “Self-sampled all-MOS ASK demodulator for lower ISM band applications,” IEEE Trans. of Circuits Syst. II Exp. Briefs, vol. 57, no. 4, pp.265-269, Apr. 2010.

Conference papers

  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Patrick Riehl, and Jenshan Lin, “3-D Wireless charging system with flexible receiver coil alignment,” IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conf., May 5-6, 2016. (Best Student Paper Award)
  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Patrick Riehl, Anand Satyamoorthy, and Jenshan Lin, “In-vehicles wireless charging system for portable devices,” in Proc. IEEE 82nd Vehicular Tech. Conf., pp. 1-3, Sept. 2015. (Invited)
  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Patrick Riehl, Anand Satyamoorthy, William Plumb, Philip Tustin, and Jenshan Lin, “A 3D resonant wireless charger for a wearable device and a mobile phone,” in Proc. IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conf., pp. 1-3, May 2015. (Best Conference Paper)
  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Hsin-Yuan Tseng, Jen-Wei Liu, and Chua-Chin Wang, “On-chip process and temperature compensation and self-adjusting slew rate control for output buffer,” in Proc. PrimeAsia2011, pp. 37-40, Oct. 2011.
  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Hsiao-Han Hou, and Chua-Chin Wang, “A PCI166-compatible 3xVDD-tolerant mixed-voltage I/O buffer,”  in Proc. IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. Circuits Syst., pp. 320-323, Dec. 2010.
  • Ron-Chi Kuo, Tung-Han Tsai, Yi-Jie Hsieh, and Chua-Chin Wang, “A high precision low dropout regulator with nested feedback loops,” in Proc. IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. Circuits Syst., pp. 664-667, Dec. 2010.

Patents

  • Patrick Riehl, Ron-Chi Kuo, and Jenshan Lin, “6DoF Charging coil,” US Patent, Feb. 2016. (Submitted)
  • Patrick Riehl, Ron-Chi Kuo, Anand Satyamoorthy, and Bill Kirwin, “3D Wireless charger: Sombrero,” US Patent 62/094,134, Jan. 2015.