Nico Wainstein

Dr. Nicolás (Nico) Wainstein

Nicolás Wainstein is a Research Fellow at the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  He received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, in 2014 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in 2021. Between 2021 and 2024, he was a Senior Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer at Intel, Israel, working on high-speed parallel wireline links, such as DDR and die-to-die (D2D). His current research focuses on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design, with an emphasis on high-speed I/O, data converters, and hardware for machine learning. In the past, he worked on the development, fabrication, and modeling of high-performance PCM RF switches as well as circuit design and fabrication of reconfigurable RF front-end circuits based on these devices. Nicolás was a recipient of the 2021 Hershel Rich Innovation Award, the 2020 IEEE Electron Devices Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship, the 2020 Yablonovitch Research Prize, the 2020 RBNI Prize for Excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the 2020 RBNI Scholarship, the 2019 Jury Award for Outstanding Students, and the Excellence Scholarship from the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Contact

email: nicolasw [at] technion [dot] ac [dot] il
Office: 414 Zisapel Building, Andrew and Erna Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology