Teaching

My teaching portfolio to-date includes two courses: (1) ENG-SCI 152: “Circuits, Devices, and Transduction,” and (2) COMPSCI 148/248: “(Advanced) Design of Very-Large-Scale Integrated (VLSI) Circuits and Systems”. I also recently submitted my course plan for a graduate-level course that I will offer starting spring 2025, tentatively named ENG-SCI 255: “High-Performance Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits”.

ES 152 is a core requirement for the EE concentration and thus I teach it every fall (I have taught it four times: once together with Woody Yang in 2021 and three additional times in 2022, 2023, and 2024).

CS 148/248 is a graduate-level course that serves two key purposes: (a) I use it to train my graduate students (and graduate students in other groups) in developing the technical skills required to design the VLSI computing systems we develop in our research group (e.g., how to effectively leverage industry-standard Electronic Design Automation tools and analyze their output);  (b) many undergraduates take CS 148/248 as an elective for their degree requirement, especially students who have taken ES 152.

Finally, I am developing a new graduate level course, to be offered for the first time in spring 2025: “ES 255: High-Performance Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits”. ES 255 will focus on co-design of electronic circuits and photonic circuits in large-scale electronic-photonic systems. One of the goals of the course is to bring together graduate students in high-performance photonics at Harvard, and in high-performance electronics at Harvard, toward cutting edge collaborative research in electronic-photonic systems.

The tables below summarize my teaching experience at Harvard so far, as well as my future teaching commitments. I take great pride in my commitment teaching, and have shamelessly attached excerpts from Harvard Q reports (anonymous feedback from Harvard students) at the end of this section.

Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching

As a tangible indicator of my teaching success, I received the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teching from Phi Beta Kappa in 2024. This is awarded to 2-4 professors across Harvard each year. According to the list of recipients since 1981 (https://pbk.fas.harvard.edu/teaching-prize), I am the only professor in Electrical Engineering to have received this award. The figure below shows pictures of the award ceremony.

Class Photos :)

Harvard Q Reports

Full reports are accessible at https://qreports.fas.harvard.edu/ (with Harvard login). I've attached some screenshots of the reports here.