10 years of hand-on experience in full-custom CMOS integrated circuit design and testing including - Wireless transceiver - Millimeter-wave, RF and analog circuit - Transmit/receive switch, low-noise amplifier, variable gain amplifier, phase shifter, ESD protection circuit Specialties: - Circuit simulation using Spectre/SpectreRF and Microwave Office - Electromagnetic simulation using HFSS and Axiem - Layout using Cadence Virtuoso Layout - Laboratory work including on-wafer measurement, high-frequency calibration and measurement - PCB design

Senior Design Engineer @ Design semiconductor chip for next-generation 60GHz Wi-Fi solutions for mobile platforms. From September 2011 to Present (4 years 4 months) Researcher @ RFIC design From June 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 4 months) Research Engineer @ Designed and tested transmit/receive switches, phase shifters, low noise amplifiers, and 60-GHz wireless transceivers on 130-nm and 65-nm CMOS technology. Contributed to the development of a retina implantation and a high-speed analog-to-digital converter. Performed calibration, measurement, and de-embedding at millimeter-wave frequencies using probe station, vector network analyzer, four-port test-set, and other equipments. Lectured on a post-graduate level subject. From June 2008 to June 2010 (2 years 1 month) Research Engineer @ Designed and tested a variable gain amplifier with linear-in-dB gain control characteristic and DC offset cancellation capability on a 0.18-um CMOS process. From August 2004 to September 2005 (1 year 2 months) SingaporeIntern @ Measured I-V characteristics of the tunnel diode and resonant tunnelling diode using a probe station and IC-CAP. Developed DC models for these devices and performed model parameter fitting using IC-CAP and SPICE. From January 2004 to June 2004 (6 months) SingaporeInformatics/Telecommunications Engineer @ Developed software for telecommunication network management using Visual Basic, Delphi, and Oracle database. Deployed software at customer sites and provided support. From March 2002 to June 2003 (1 year 4 months) Vietnam

Ph.D., Electrical and Electronic Engineering @ University of Melbourne From 2005 to 2009 Master of Science, Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems @ National University of Singapore From 2003 to 2004 B.Eng., Electrical and Electronics @ Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology From 1997 to 2002 Chien Ta is skilled in: AWR Microwave Office, CMOS, Analog Circuit Design, RF, LNA, Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, HFSS, Calibration, IC, Wireless, PCB design, Probe Station, LaTeX, Matlab