Faculty

Inna Partin-Vaisband 

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago

Short Biography
Inna Partin-Vaisband is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds an appointment as a Courtesy Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. She received the B.Sc. in computer science and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in, respectively, 2006 and 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 2015. Between 2003 and 2009, Dr. P.-Vaisband held a variety of software and hardware R&D positions at Tower Semiconductor Ltd., G-Connect Ltd., and IBM Ltd., all in Israel. Dr. Partin-Vaisband is an Associate Editor of the Microelectronics Journal.

Her research is currently focused on innovation in the areas of artificially intelligent hardware, hardware security, and electronic design automation.  Special emphasis is placed on analog and mixed-signal circuits and integrated power delivery and management. Her research into heterogeneous power delivery and management has been published in her book On-Chip Power Delivery and Management, 4th Edition. A distributed system of ultra-small high-efficiency on-chip power supplies previously designed, fabricated, and tested by her was in mass production within the Galaxy S5 android smart phones as part of the Qualcomm Snapdragon product line. She is the recipient of the 2022 Google Research Scholar Award and the 2023 NSF CAREER Award.

Teaching
ECE 594, High Performance Integrated Circuits and Systems – Issues, Design, and Analysis
ECE 468, Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI Design
ECE 467, Introduction to VLSI Design