Arun Natarajan

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Room / Office:
Dunham 519

Office Address:

10 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520

Website: Analog and RF Circuits (ARC) Lab at Yale

About Arun Natarajan

Degrees

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

Perspectives

His research focuses on analog, RF, and mm-wave circuits and systems for wireless communications and pervasive sensing. More recently, his group has emphasized low-power integrated circuits for sensors and architectures for interferer-tolerant RF/mm-wave MIMO arrays. He is also active in entrepreneurship, with a strong interest in translating academic innovations into commercial technologies.

Selected Awards & Honors

IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer, 2018
DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2017
Oregon State Engelbrecht Young Faculty Award, 2016
NSF CAREER Award, 2016
Pat Goldberg Memorial Award for Best Paper in CS/EE/Math in IBM Research, 2011

Selected Publications

K. Rashed, A. Undavalli, S. Chakrabartty, A. Nagulu and A. Natarajan, "A Scalable and Instantaneously Wideband RF Correlator Based on Margin Computing," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 3612-3626, Nov. 2024.
K. R. Sadagopan and A. Natarajan, "A 2.4GHz Wideband Wireless Harvester with Integrated Autonomous RF Input-Frequency Tracking for FCC-Compatible Chip-scale Battery Charging," IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, vol. 3, pp. 249-261, Oct. 2023.
H. Bialek, A. Binaie, S. Ahasan, K. R. Sadagopan, M. Johnson, H. Krishnaswamy, and A. Natarajan, “A Passive Wideband Noise-Cancelling Mixer-First Architecture with Shared Antenna Interface for Interferer-Tolerant Wake-up Receivers and Low-noise Primary Receivers,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited), vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2611-2625, Sep. 2022.
K. R. Sadagopan, J. Kang, Y. Ramadass, and A. Natarajan, “A cm-Scale 2.4-GHz Wireless Energy Harvester With NanoWatt Boost Converter and Antenna-Rectifier Resonance for WiFi Powering of Sensor Nodes,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited), vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 3396-3406, Dec. 2018.
A. Agrawal and A. Natarajan, “An Interferer-Tolerant CMOS Code-Domain Receiver Based on N-Path Filters,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited), vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1387-1397, May 2018.
A. Natarajan, A. Valdes-Garcia, B. Sadhu, S. Reynolds, and B. Parker, “W-Band Dual-Polarization Phased-Array Transceiver Frontend in SiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 1989-2002, June 2015.