Dr. Wooley is the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966, 1968, and 1970, respectively. From 1970 to 1984 he was a member of the research staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. At Stanford he has served the Chair of the Department of Electical Engineering, the Senior Associate Dean of Engineering and the Director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory. His research is in the field of integrated circuit design, where his interests include low-power mixed-signal circuit design, oversampling A/D and D/A conversion, circuit design techniques for video and image data acquisition, high-speed embedded memory, high-performance packaging and testing, noise in mixed-signal integrated circuits, and circuits for wireless and wireline communications. He has published more than 160 technical articles and is a coauthor of The Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power Sigma-Delta Modulators and Design and Control of RF Power Amplifiers. He is a coeditor of Analog MOS Integrated Circuits, II .
Prof. Wooley is a Fellow of the IEEE and a past President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He has served as the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and as the Chairman of both the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and the Symposium on VLSI Circuits. He is also a past Chairman of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Technology Committee, and he has served as a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Adcom, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Adcom, and the Executive Committees of the ISSCC and the Symposium on VLSI Circuits.
Ali Hajimiri received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Stanford University in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
Before joining the Faculty of Caltech, he worked at Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units, at Sun Microsystems working on the UltraSPARC microprocessor’s cache RAM design methodology, and with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ, where he investigated low-phase-noise integrated oscillators. In 1998, he joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he is Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of Caltech Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory, and co-Director of the Space-based Solar Power Project. His research interests are high-speed and high-frequency electronics and photonics integrated circuits for applications in sensors, biomedical devices, photonics, and communication systems.
Prof. Hajimiri is the author of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (Boston, MA: Springer) and has authored and coauthored more than 200 refereed journal and conference technical articles. He has been granted more than 100 U.S. patents and has many more pending applications. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Prof. Hajimiri was selected to the TR35 top innovator’s list. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He won the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor, as well as Caltech’s Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award and the Associated Students of Caltech Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. He was the Gold medal winner of the National Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award of 2004, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award, a co-recipient of RFIC best paper award, a two-time co-recipient of CICC best paper award, and a three-time winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award and Okawa Foundation award. In 2002, he co-founded Axiom Microdevices Inc., whose fully-integrated CMOS PA has shipped more than 400,000,000 units, and was acquired by Skyworks Inc. in 2009.
Sotirios Limotyrakis received a B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 1995, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1997 and 2005, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In November 2004 he joined Atheros Communications, Inc. (now Qualcomm Atheros), Santa Clara, CA, where he is now a Senior Staff Engineer. His current research interests include the design of mixed-signal and RF circuits for low-power data conversion and broadband communications.
Dr. Kaviani brings more than 16 years of technical leadership and innovation in VLSI IC design, research, and development. Before joining Genapsys, Dr. Kaviani was the chief technical lead at Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, for design and implementation of high-performance serial data interface technologies for server applications. He played a critical role in successful design and implementation of over 15 products and prototypes such as PlayStation®3, TIDLP®, LPDDR2/3, DDR3, GDDR5 and XDRTM memory interfaces in advanced CMOS and SOI process technologies. Dr. Kaviani received the B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a co-recipient of the 2002 outstanding paper award of the IEEE Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society and 2008 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference best paper award. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical papers, patents and patent applications in the area of VLSI systems and technologies.
Masoud Zargari received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tehran University in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical en-gineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the technical staff at Wireless Access Inc., Santa Clara, CA, where he worked on the design and development of wireless systems for two-way messaging networks.In 1998, he joined Atheros Communications, now Qualcomm Atheros, as a member of the founding team where he is currently a Senior Director of Engineering focusing on integrated systems for wireless communications. During 1999 and 2000, Dr. Zargari was a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford Universitywhere he taught courses in the area of RF and analog integrated circuit design.
Jieh-Tsorng Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
From 1980 to 1982 he served in the Chinese Army as a Radar Technical Officer. From 1982 to 1988, at Stanford University, he focussed his research on high-speed analog-to-digital conversion in CMOS VLSI. From 1988 to 1992 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Microwave Semiconductor Division in San Jose, CA, and was responsible for several linear and digital giga-hertz IC designs. Since 1992, he has been with the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, where he is now a Professor. His current research interests are high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Dr. Wu is a member of Phi Tau Phi. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Behzad Razavi received the BSEE degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1985 and the MSEE and PhDEEdegrees from Stanford University in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories until 1996. Since 1996, he has been Associate Professor and subsequently Professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. His current research includes wireless transceivers, frequency synthesizers, phase-locking and clock recovery for high-speed data communications, and data converters.
Professor Razavi was an Adjunct Professor at Princeton University from 1992 to 1994, and at Stanford University in 1995. He served on the Technical Program Committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 1993 to 2002 and VLSI Circuits Symposium from 1998 to 2002. He has also served as Guest Editor and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, andInternational Journal of High Speed Electronics.
Professor Razavi received the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 1994 ISSCC, the best paper award at the 1994 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, the best panel award at the 1995 and 1997 ISSCC, the TRW Innovative Teaching Award in 1997, and the best paper award at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in 1998. He was the co-recipient of both the Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award and the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 2001 ISSCC. He received the Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006 and the UCLA Faculty Senate Teaching Award in 2007. He was also recognized as one of the top 10 authors in the 50-year history of ISSCC.
Professor Razavi is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of IEEE, and the author of Principles of Data Conversion System Design (IEEE Press, 1995), RF Microelectronics (Prentice Hall, 1998) (translated to Chinese and Japanese), Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits (McGraw-Hill, 2001) (translated to Chinese andJapanese), Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications (McGraw-Hill, 2003), and Fundamentals of Microelectronics (Wiley 2006). He is also the editor of Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops and Clock Recovery Circuits (IEEE Press, 1996), and Phase-Locking in High-Performance Systems (IEEE Press, 2003).
He received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, his M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University, 1985 and 1988, respectively. Prior to joining the faculty of EECS in 1991, he was a member of the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. Dr. Boser has was the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He is a co-founder of SiTime, a company commercializing MEMS resonators to replace quartz crystals as precision timing references. His research focuses on sensors and sensor interface electronics.
