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Andreas Peter Burg

andreas.burg@epfl.ch

EPFL STI IEL TCL
ELD 130 (Bâtiment ELD)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne

Andreas Burg was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2000 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He then joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich, from where he graduated with the Dr. sc. techn. degree in 2006. In 1998, he worked at Siemens Semiconductors, San Jose, CA. During his doctoral studies, he was an intern with Bell Labs Wireless Research for a total of one year. From 2006 to 2007, he held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Integrated Systems Laboratory and at the Communication Theory Group of the ETH Zurich. In 2007 he co-founded Celestrius, an ETH-spinoff in the field of MIMO wireless communication, where he was responsible for the ASIC development as Director for VLSI. In January 2009, he joined ETH Zurich as SNF Assistant Professor and as head of the Signal Processing Circuits and Systems group at the Integrated Systems Laboratory. In January 2011, he became a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he is leading the Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory in the School of Engineering. In June 2018 he was promoted to the role of a Tenured Associate Professor. In 2000, Mr. Burg received the «Willi Studer Award» and the ETH Medal for his diploma and his diploma thesis, respectively. Mr. Burg was also awarded an ETH Medal for his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006. In 2008, he received a 4-years grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for an SNF Assistant Professorship. In his professional career, Mr. Burg was involved in the development of more than 25 ASICs. He is a member of the IEEE and of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). Research interests and expertise * Circuits and systems for telecommunications (wireless and wired) * Prototyping and silicon implementation of new communication technologies * Development of communication algorithms and optimization for hardware implementation * Low-power VLSI signal processing for communications and other applications * Digital integrated circuits * Circuits for image and video processing

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Irem Sanli, Clément Renaud Jean Choné, Ziyi Wang, Leyu Zhang, Yuqi Wang, Shouqing Fu, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Jonathan Magnin, Ludovic Damien Blanc, Shijie Xu, Clément Weihao Samanos, Alessandro Cardinale

Past EPFL PhD Students

Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning, Nicholas Alexander Preyss, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Alexios Balatsoukas Stimming, Hazar Yüksel, Andrea Bonetti, Orion Afisiadis, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Christoph Thomas Müller, Adrian Schumacher, Naci Pekçokgüler, Yuqing Ren, Yigit Halil Andac, Sitian Li, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Ahmed Yasir Dogan, Mohsen Yousefbeiki, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Jonathan Narinx, Duygu Kostak, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik, Roberto La Rosa

Courses

Design and Optimization of Internet-of-Things Systems

EE-733

This course provides a complete overview of the most relevant subfields related to Internet of Things (IoT) systems, it presents the perspectives and the underlying technologies, with a particular focus on edge AI architectures and software (AI and TinyML algorithms), communication and Cloud systems

Digital systems design

EE-334

Students will acquire basic knowledge about methodologies and tools for the design, optimization, and verification of custom digital systems/hardware. They learn how to design synchronous digital circuits on register transfer level, analyse their timing and implement them in VHDL and on FPGAs.

Energy Autonomous Wireless Smart Systems

MICRO-617

The course provides in depth knowledge on how to design an energy autonomous microsystem embedding sensors with wireless transmission of information. It covers the energy generation, power management, and data processing and transmission with an emphasis on low-power and energy efficient operation.

Fundamentals of VLSI design

EE-429

The course introduces the fundamentals of digital integrated circuits and the technology aspects from a designers perspective. It focuses mostly on transistor level, but discusses also the extension to large digital semicustom designs.

Lab in advanced VLSI design

EE-490(b)

this class covers advanced VLSI design techniques. top-down full custom circuit design.

Lab in information technologies

EE-390(c)

Get familiar with experimental aspects of the main domains of the orientation "Information and communication technologies"

Systèmes de télécommunications

EE-342

Learning basic knowledge on transmission of information and identify the relevant criteria for the dimensioning of a telecommunication system. Evaluate the quality of digital transmission systems (error probability) either in baseband or shifted passband.

Wireless receivers: algorithms and architectures

EE-442

The students will learn about the basic principles of wireless communication systems, including transmission and modulation schemes as well as the basic components and algorithms of a wireless receiver. They develop an understanding for the wireless channel and system performance and limitations.