Alyssa B. Apsel is an American electrical engineer whose research involves the design and analysis of integrated circuits that combine information from electrical, optical, and radio-frequency channels, including CMOS-based optoelectronics, low-power asynchronous analog-to-digital converters as an interface to the internet of things, and implantable radio devices for body area networks.
After earning a master's degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1996, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2002.
Her dissertation, Optoelectronic Receivers in Silicon on Sapphire CMOS: Architecture and Design for Efficient Parallel Interconnects, was supervised by Andreas Andreou.
[2] She joined Cornell University as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in 2002.
[3] Apsel is a coauthor of the book Design of Ultra-Low Power Impulse Radios (with Xiao Wang and Rajeev Dokania, Springer, 2014).