Kenle Chen
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- ken.chen@northeastern.edu
- 5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA, 94613
Research Focus
AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration, and co-design of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems
Education
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 2013
Honors & Awards
- 2023 NSF CAREER award
Research Overview
AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration, and co-design of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems
Selected Research Projects
- Non-Reciprocally-Coupled Load-Modulation Platform for Next Generation High-Power Magnetic-Less Fully-Directional Radio Front Ends
- – PI, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- P. Gong, J. Guo, N. B. Vangipurapu, and K. Chen, “Decade-Bandwidth RF-Input Pseudo-Doherty Load Modulated Balanced Amplifier using Signal-Flow-Based Phase Alignment Design,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 761-764, June 2024. Top 50 IMS 2024 Papers
- J. Guo, Y. Cao, and K. Chen, “Highly Linear Load Modulated Balanced Amplifier with Multi-Band Reconfigurability and Load Insensitivity,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 5319-5332, Sep. 2024.
- J. Guo, Y. Cao, and K. Chen, “1-D Reconfigurable Pseudo-Doherty Load Modulated Balanced Amplifier with Intrinsic VSWR Resilience across Wide Bandwidth,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 2465-2478, June 2023.
- H. Lyu, Y. Cao, and K. Chen, “Highly Linear and Efficient Quasi-Balanced Doherty Power Amplifier at 3.5 GHz,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 52-58, Mar. 2023. 1st Place Winner of IEEE MTT-S the 17th High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design Competition
- H. Lyu and K. Chen, “Analysis and Design of Reconfigurable Multi-Band Mismatch-Resilient Quasi-Balanced Doherty Power Amplifier for Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 4410-4421, Oct. 2022