Regular biography
Alyosha Christopher Molnar is the Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering at Cornell University's Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include the development of advanced semiconductor technologies and integrated circuits. Molnar's work focuses on the design and fabrication of high-performance electronic devices. He is affiliated with the Duffield Engineering Center and can be contacted via email at am699@cornell.edu. His professional profile is available at https://www.duffield.cornell.edu/people/alyosha-christopher-molnar/.
Scholar-generated biography
Alyosha Molnar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, specializing in RFIC design, integrated light-field imaging, and Retinal neuroscience. His research focuses on developing low-power RF transceivers with advanced receiver architectures, such as passive mixer-first receivers, and exploring wideband and tunable transceiver designs for wireless communication. He also investigates neuromorphic computing and retinal ganglion cell processing, aiming to understand how spatial and temporal patterns of excitation and inhibition form spiking outputs. His work includes light-field image sensors based on the Talbot effect and angle-sensitive pixel devices for optically computing convolutional neural networks. Molnar's contributions span from RF circuit design to bio-inspired computing systems.