Professor Sebastian Hoyos

Contact

Texas A&M University, College Station
3128 TAMU -315D WERC
College Station, TX 77843
Office: (979) 862-4253
Phone: (302) 652-4616
Email: h o y o s @  t a m u . e d u
 

Biography

Sebastian Hoyos received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Bogota, Colombia, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He was with Lucent Technologies Inc., Bogota, Colombia, from 1999 to 2000 for the Andean region in South America. Simultaneously, he was a lecturer with PUJ, where he lectured on microelectronics and control theory. During his M.S. and Ph.D. studies, he was with PMC-Sierra Inc., the Delaware Research Partnership Program, and the Army Research Laboratory Collaborative Technology Alliance in Communications and Networks. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2004-2006) with the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He joined Texas A&M University, College Station, TX in 2006 where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include telecommunication systems, digital signal processing, and analog and mixed-signal processing and circuit design.

Brief CV


Honors

  • 2012 - R. Saad, E. A. Sobhy, and S. Hoyos, “A 384-MHz Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator using a Hybrid Feedback DAC Based on Spectral Shaping of Jitter Induced Errors,” SRC TECHCON 2011, Austin TX. Best paper award.
  • 2009 - IEEE Colombian Chapter STSIVA, Best Paper Award
  • 2004 - Signal Processing and Communications Faculty Award, University of Delaware
  • 2002-2004 - US Army Collaborative Technology Alliance Fellowship, U. of Delaware/US Army Research 2001-2002, Research Fellowship, U. of Delaware/Computer and Electrical Engineering Department
  • 2000-2001 - Best Student of the Class, out of 80 students, PUJ University, Bogota, Colombia
  • 1999 - Rank 1st in Expo-electronic Research Project Contest, PUJ University, Bogota, Colombia