Rate My Professor Marko Kosunen

Marko Kosunen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering within the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University. He earned his M.Sc. degree in Engineering and Technology in 1998, Licentiate (L.Sc.) degree in 2001, and D.Sc. degree with honors in 2006, all from Helsinki University of Technology, now part of Aalto University. From 2017 to 2019, he conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant from the European Union. In 2011, he visited the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he serves as one of the three co-chairs of Microelectronics Finland, a collaborative organization fostering microelectronics research and education between academia and industry, and as Co-director of the Aalto Microelectronics Research Center (METKA), which provides advanced design tools and measurement equipment for integrated circuit design.

Kosunen's research focuses on programmatic circuit design methodologies, digital-intensive time-based data converters and transceiver circuits, and RISC-V microprocessor implementations with DSP accelerators. He has authored or co-authored over 100 journal and conference papers and holds several patents. Notable recent publications include "A 2.3nA-to-205nA Clock-Tunable Dynamic Current Reference with a Built-in 2nd-Order Current-Mode Low-Pass Filter and Coarse-Fine Regulation" (2025), "An Efficient Framework for Fully Automated Post-layout Simulation-based Optimization" (2025), "An Efficient Method for Analog Design Optimization With Layout Generators" (2025), and "Fully Programmatic Automated Design Procedure of Comparators for Analog-to-Digital Converters" published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2025). As principal investigator on projects like EffiCores (2024–2027), TIRESYAS (2024–2027), and A-Core (2021–2024), his work develops open-source design methodologies and fully programmatic IC design flows such as Chipndale for applications in RISC-V microprocessors, sensing, radar, and wireless communications. These efforts contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure).