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Valencia Koomson

Valencia Koomson

Valencia Koomson

Research/Areas of Interest

design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2003
  • M.Phil., University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000
  • M.Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1999
  • B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1998

Biography

Valencia Koomson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering. Prior to joining Tufts, she held an appointment as a VLSI research engineer at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), where she performed research on the design of radiation-hardened analog/mixed signal VLSI systems in CMOS for military and space applications. Koomson is a former Marshall Scholar, Intel Foundation Scholar, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

Valencia Koomson's research interests include the design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging.