Brian Floyd

Dr. Floyd joined NC State in January 2010. His research interests include RF and millimeter-wave circuits and systems for wireless communications, imaging, and radar applications. Specific research topics include multi-Gb/s wireless transceivers, mmWave passive and active imagers, silicon phased-array transceivers, 3-D RF, digitally assisted/digitally-replaced RF systems, and manufacturable antenna-in-package approaches.

Prior to 2010, Dr. Floyd worked at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff member (2001-2007) and as the manager of the RF and wireless circuits and systems group (2007-2009). His work at IBM included the demonstration of some of the world's first 60-GHz transceivers in silicon and the development of 60-GHz phased-array transceivers, antennas, and packages.

Education

1996 - B.S. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1998 - M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2001 - Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Awards & Honors

Publications

• 2020 RFIC Symposium (2020)
• Tunable 0.7-2.8-GHz Reflection-Mode N-Path Filters in 45-nm SOI CMOS (2020)
• 2019 RFIC Symposium (2019)
• Harmonic Performance of Mixer-First Receivers With Circulant-Symmetric Basebands (2019)
• A 24–44 GHz UWB LNA for 5G Cellular Frequency Bands (2018)
• Built-in test of phased arrays using code-modulated interferometry (2018)
• Mixer-First MIMO Receiver with Multi-Port Impedance Tuning for Decoupling of Compact Antenna Systems (2018)
• A 28-GHz SiGe BiCMOS PA with 32% efficiency and 23-dBm output power (2017)
• A 28-GHz harmonic-tuned power amplifier in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS (2017)
• A 28-GHz phased-array receiver front end with dual-vector distributed beamforming (2017)