Marvin Onabajo
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- monabajo@ece.neu.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA
Office
- 408 Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC)
- 617.373.3452
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Research Focus
Design of analog, radio frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; built-in test and calibration techniques for systems-on-a-chip; on-chip temperature sensors for thermal monitoring and built-in testing; integrated circuits for medical applications
About
Marvin Onabajo received a B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2003 as well as the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He was Electrical Test/Product Engineer at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, Oregon from 2004 to 2005. In the Spring 2011 semester, he worked as a Design Engineering Intern in the Broadband RF/Tuner Development group at Broadcom Corp. in Irvine, California. Marvin Onabajo joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2011 semester.
Education
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2011
Honors & Awards
- 2022 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
- NSF CAREER Award
- Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Engineering at Northeastern University (2015)
- ARO Young Investigator Program Award
Research Overview
Design of analog, radio frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; built-in test and calibration techniques for systems-on-a-chip; on-chip temperature sensors for thermal monitoring and built-in testing; integrated circuits for medical applications
Selected Research Projects
- Advancing Coexistence through a Cross-Layer Design Platform with an Adaptive Frequency-Selective Radio Front-End and Digital Algorithms
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Self-Adaptive Interference-Avoiding Wireless Receiver Hardware through Real-Time Learning-Based Automatic Optimization of Power-Efficient Integrated Circuits
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- RINGS: Internet of Things Resilience through Spectrum-Agile Circuits, Learning-Based Communications and Thermal Hardware Security
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- An On-Chip Thermal Sensing Method to Detect Malicious Integrated Circuits
- – Principal Investigator, Army Research Office
- CAREER: Low-Power Transceiver Design Methods for Wireless Medicalx Monitoring
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Novel Implantable Smart Magnetoelectric NanoRFIDs for Large-Scale Neural Magnetic Recording and Modulation
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- M. Yan, H. M. E. Hussein, C. Cassella, M. Rinaldi, and M. Onabajo, ”Design and analysis of an on-chip current-driven CMOS parametric frequency divider,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 1893-1906, May 2023.
- Z. Xu, A. Khalifa, A. Mittal, M. Nasrollahpourmotlaghzanjani, D. Das, M. Onabajo, N. X. Sun, S. Cash, and A. Shrivastava, “A 30% efficient high output voltage fully integrated self-biased gate RF rectifier topology for neural implants,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 3324-3335, Nov. 2022.
- M. A. A. Ibrahim and M. Onabajo, “A 0.061 nJ/b 10 Mbps hybrid BF-PSK receiver for Internet of Things applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 1919-1931, May 2022.
- K. Chen, L. Petruzzi, R. Hulfachor, and M. Onabajo, “Shared offset cancellation and chopping techniques to enhance the voltage accuracy of multi-amplifier systems for feedback sensing in power management applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1051-1064, March 2022.
- H. Hussein, M. A. A. Ibrahim, M. Rinaldi, M. Onabajo, and C. Cassella, “Reflective parametric frequency selective limiters with sub-dB loss and μWatts power thresholds,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 2989-3000, June 2021.
- M. Yan, H. Wei, and M. Onabajo, “On-chip thermal profiling to detect malicious activity: system-level concepts and design of key building blocks,” IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 530-543, March 2021.
- K. Chen, L. Petruzzi, R. Hulfachor, and M. Onabajo, “A 1.16-V 5.8-ppm/°C to 13.5-ppm/°C curvature-compensated CMOS bandgap reference circuit with a shared offset cancellation method for internal amplifiers,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 267-276, Jan. 2021.
- M. A. A. Ibrahim and M. Onabajo, “A low-power BFSK transmitter architecture for biomedical applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1527-1540, May 2020.
Aug 07, 2023
Young Scholars Program for Local High School Students Finishes Strong
High school seniors engage in diverse engineering research during Northeastern’s Young Scholars Program, mentored by COE faculty and students.
Sep 09, 2022
Designing Self-Adaptive Next Generation RF Receivers for Heavily Crowded Electromagnetic Environments
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, Professor Miriam Leeser, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “Advancing Coexistence through a Cross-Layer Design Platform with an Adaptive Frequency-Selective Radio Front-End and Digital Algorithms.” The research lays the groundwork for enhanced radio frequency communication systems that make use of real-time tuning to adapt to different spectrum environments for higher interference tolerance, and to provide design techniques and tools that improve the coexistence of wireless devices.
Jul 07, 2022
Rethinking Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Optimization for the Internet of Things
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo were awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Self-Adaptive Interference-Avoiding Wireless Receiver Hardware through Real-Time Learning-Based Automatic Optimization of Power-Efficient Integrated Circuits.”
Apr 20, 2022
$1 Million NSF Award as Part of Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems Program for Spectrum-Agile IoT Networks
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, Professor Yunsi Fei, Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia were awarded a $1M NSF grant for “RINGS: Internet of Things Resilience through Spectrum-Agile Circuits, Learning-Based Communications and Thermal Hardware Security.”
Apr 15, 2022
Faculty and Staff Awards 2022
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2021-2022 academic school year.
Feb 17, 2021
Subharmonic Tag for Wireless Sensing
ECE PhD student Hussein Hussein, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella had their research on “A chip-less and battery-less subharmonic tag for wireless sensing with parametrically enhanced sensitivity and dynamic range” published in Scientific Reports from the Nature group.
Feb 04, 2020
Onabajo Awarded Patent for FSK Wireless Transmitters
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo was awarded a patent for “Low-power frequency-shift keying (FSK) wireless transmitters.”
Aug 23, 2019
Cassella Receives NSF Award to Enable Longer Battery Lifetime and Next-Generation Micro- and Nano-Sensors
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $437K NSF award from the CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys program for “Fully Integrated Parametric Filters for Extensive Phase-Noise Reduction in Low-Power RF Front-Ends and Resonant Sensing Platforms.” The research program aims to exploit, for the first time, […]
Oct 09, 2018
$1.34M NIH Grant for Wireless Microscale Neuronal Recording and Stimulation System
ECE Professor Nian Sun, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava were awarded a $1.34M NIH collaborative grant with Massachusetts General Hospital to work on nano-scale neural radio frequency identification (NanoNeuroRFID) devices for wireless neural magnetic modulation and recording.
Sep 12, 2018
Detecting Trojan Circuits with On-Chip Temperature Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Professor Yong-Bin Kim were awarded a patent for creating a "method to use on-chip temperature sensors for detection of Trojan circuits". Abstract Source: USPTO A method for detecting a malicious circuit on an integrated circuit chip is provided, in which temperature sensors are thermally coupled to primary circuitry on […]