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Professor Bardin received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2003, the MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2009.

From 2003-2005, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he was involved in the demonstration of an array-based downlink for the NASA deep-space network. From 2009-2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Caltech High-Speed Integrated Circuits group, where his research was focused on self-healing integrated circuits. In 2010, he joined the University of Amherst as an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research thrusts include reconfigurable millimeter-wave integrated circuits and built-in self-test, single photon detection, ultra-sensitive cryogenically cooled low-noise amplifiers, transistor modeling, THz integrated circuits, and novel applications of silicon integrated circuit technology for low-temperature scientific applications. Professor Bardin has served on the IEEE IMS Technical Program Review Committee since 2012 and was a recipient of a 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award and a 2014 NSF CAREER Award.

Sanggeun Jeon received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Full.Time Instructor in electronics engineering at the Korea Air Force Academy.

From 2006 to 2008, he was a Research Engineer in the Caltech High.Speed Integrated Circuits Group, where he was involved with CMOS phased.array receiver design. In 2008, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, as an Assistant Professor.

His research interests include high.efficiency power amplifiers, oscillators, nonlinear stability analysis, and CMOS communication circuits. Dr. Jeon was the recipient of the Third Place Award in the Student Paper Competition at the 2005 IEEE MTT.S International Microwave Symposium.

Scott Kee (M’03) received the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark, in 1998, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2002.

He was a founding member of Axiom Microdevices, a fabless semiconductor startup producing CMOS cellular power amplifiers, where he worked from 2002 to 2007 as CTO. He is currently the CTO of Indie, a fabless semiconductor startup, which he co-founded in 2007.

Ichiro Aoki  was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1965. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil, in 1987, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He is currently the president of Indie Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup, which he co-founded  in 2007. Together with Dr. Scott Kee and Prof. Ali Hajimiri, he co-founded Axiom Microdevices, Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup with over 200 million fully integrated CMOS power amplifiers shipped to GSM/GPRS cell phone market to date, and from 2002 to 2007 worked in its engineering and management positions including acting CEO. He cofounded and managed as co-CEO PST Eletrônica S/A, Brazil, a car electronic components manufacturing company from 1988 to 1998. At the time of his departure, PST had 300 employees and has since grown to over 1200 employees and over US$200 million revenue. His current research interests include high-frequency silicon RF analog integrated circuits for wireless communications and low-power mixed-signal circuits. Mr. Aoki received the Schlumberger Fellowship from 1998 to 1999 and the Walker von Brimer Foundation Award in 2000 at Caltech.

Dr. Dean P. Neikirk is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering. Dr. Neikirk is currently concentrating on the use of IC fabrication techniques for the development of new transducers. Recent work on chemical sensors has led to the development of a new class of devices (an “electronic tongue”) that may have application in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to environmental monitoring. Another area of research in our group is the development of sensors for “structural health monitoring,” including work on new passive rf tags for detection of damage in buildings and bridges that have been subjected to extreme conditions. One application would be the detection of earthquake-induced weld failure in steel-framed buildings. For civil structural health monitoring, a modification of existing electronic article surveillance (EAS) technology should produce extremely low cost devices capable of wireless transmission of binary information about the state of the underlying structure. Optically interrogated pressure sensors and magnetic proximity sensors have also been developed. Dr. Neikirk has also done extensive work on the high frequency electromagnetic properties of integrated circuit interconnects and microwave transmission lines.

Rick is a pioneer in the field of 3G and 4G wireless technologies. He received his PhD from Caltech as a Fulbright Scholar. Early in his career he was a tenured professor in the faculty Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. While at Cornell he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. His primary area of research was advanced wireless materials, devices and circuits. Rick worked at Hewlett-Packard and then Lucent Technologies as the Director responsible for multi-megagbit radios used in high-speed internet access for residential and business applications.

Rick left Lucent to become the founding CTO of the cellular carrier Monet Mobile Networks. Monet’s spectrum footprint covered 20million residents in the midwest when they launched the first 3G commercial service in the United States. In early 2000 Rick became the founding Chairman and CEO of Cequint, a startup devoted to mobile phone applications. Cequint was later acquired by TNS.

Rick joined Beceem Communications in 2004 as the Vice President for System Engineering. At Beceem he helped develop the first commercial 4G chipset. Beceem grew to become the leading WiMAX chip supplier worldwide. While at Beceem, Rick worked with Samsung on the world’s first 4G handset. Beceem was acquired by Broadcom in 2010.

Rick became Vice President of System Product Engineering at Nvidia where he is responsible for System Level testing of GPU, Mobile and Automotive Products.

Matt Morgan received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2003, respectively, where he conducted research in the development of Monolithic Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and MMIC-based receiver components for atmospheric radiometers and deep-space communications. He has authored over 40 papers and has two patents in the areas of MMIC design, millimeter-wave system integration, and high-frequency packaging techniques.

As a Scientist and Research Engineer at the NRAO Central Development Lab (CDL) in Charlottesville, VA, Matt is involved in the design and development of low-noise receivers, components, and novel concepts for radio astronomy instrumentation in the cm-wave, mm-wave, and submm-wave frequency ranges. He was Project Engineer for the K-Band Focal Plane Array on the Green Bank Telescope, and is currently the head of CDL’s Integrated Receiver Development Program.

Wade Regehr’s doctorate was at the interface between neuroscience and electrical engingeering. Regehr’s laboratory studies the implication of calcium Ca2+ as it affects synaptic strength. Neurons communicate with one another via synapses. Regehr was one of the first to use fluorescent imaging to see the synaptic activity occurring in the brain. By studying the physiological process and mechanisms, a further understanding is made of synaptic depression and delayed release of the neurotransmitter, synaptic potentiation, facilitation and other calcium dependent chemical processes.[1] Regehr’s study of short term synaptic plasticity (synapse strength during behavioral tasks) is relevant toneurological disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and depression

Prof. Rebeiz is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, an URSI Koga Gold Medal Recipient, the 2003 IEEE MTT (Microwave Theory and Techniques) Distinguished Young Engineer, and is the recipient of the IEEE MTT 2000 Microwave Prize, the IEEE MTT 2010 Distinguished Educator Award and the 2011 IEEE AP (Antennas and Propagation) John D. Kraus Antenna Award. He also received the 1997-1998 Eta-Kappa-Nu Professor of the Year Award, the 1998 College of Engineering Teaching Award, and the 1998 Amoco Teaching Award given to the best undergraduate teacher at the University of Michigan, and the 2008 Teacher of the Year Award at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD. His students have won a total of 20 best paper awards at IEEE MTT, RFIC and AP-S conferences. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE MTT, and a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE MTT, IEEE AP, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Societies.

He is the Director of the UCSD/DARPA Center on RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals, and the author of the book, RF MEMS: Theory, Design and Technology, Wiley (2003).

Dr. Williams is an expert in the field of microwave engineering.He has extensive experience in the design and production of antenna control subsystems for military communications satellites, including the nulling antenna beam-forming networks of MILSTAR and Advanced EHF and the switched beam network for MILSTAR.In addition, Dr. Williams has provided substantial contributions to the development of microwave control components for military radars, including JSTARS, Aegis and for commercial spaceflight programs such as Telstar 4, Intelsat -8 and -9, and civil programs, including SeaWinds and Mars Odyssey.

Professor Zoya Popović is currently a Distinguished Professor and holds the Hudson Moore Jr. Chair in the department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her research interests include high-efficiency, low-noise, and broadband microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, quasi-optical millimeter-wave techniques for imaging, smart and multibeam antenna arrays, intelligent RF front ends, and wireless powering for batteryless sensors. Prof. Popovic was the recipient of the 1993 and 2006 Microwave Prizes presented by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) for the best journal papers, received the 1996 URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, the 2000 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from the German Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She was elected a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2006. She was also the recipient of the 2001 Hewlett-Packard(HP)/American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) Terman Medal for combined teaching and research excellence.

Robert Weikle works in the area of millimeter and submillimeter-wave electronics. His research interests include high-frequency semiconductor devices, millimeter-wave power generation, low-noise receiver elements, integrated-circuit antennas and quasi-optical techniques.

Dr. Weikle has published over 60 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, plus two book chapters in the field of microwave and millimeter-wave devices and circuits. In 1993, he was a co-recipient of the IEEE Microwave Prize for his work on quasi-optical power combining. Previously he was a visiting research scientist in the Department of Applied Electron Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Scott has held senior technical and management positions with Hughes Aircraft Company, EEsof, Hewlett-Packard, Tanner Research, and Avanti Corporation prior to becoming a Senior Staff Engineer with Synopsys. After ten years as an analog/RF circuit designer, Scott’s career has focused on developing electronic design automation (EDA) and simulation software solutions for IC and PCB design. Scott was a Principal Investigator for many successful efforts researching EDA solutions for MCM, MEMS, and MMIC technologies for DARPA and the Department of Defense. Scott has made substantial contributions to many popular IC design & simulation tools including HSPICE, ADS, Tanner Tools, PUFF, and Touchstone. Since the 1990s, most chips have been designed using software or algorithms created by Scott. He has authored numerous technical papers on circuit theory, design, and simulation, including contributions to three textbooks, and two patents.
He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a former Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow.

Prior to joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as an Associate Professor, he was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where his research focused on MEMS technologies for wireless and optical communications, and monitoring technologies for biomedical and industrial applications. He previously worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1987 through 1996, and the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Japan from 1996 through 1998, where his work involved various aspects of MEMS and terahertz technologies for space communications and remote sensing applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and serves on technical program and steering committees for various IEEE and SPIE symposia. He is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Electron Devices, Antennas and Propagation, and Education societies. His current research interests include MEMS, m
icrowave/terahertz radio, remote sensing technology, and biomedical applications.

J.C. Chiao worked as a research scientist at Bellcore and as a professor at the University of Hawaii before settling down at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2008, Jenkins Garrett Professor in 2011, and Janet and Mike Greene endowed professor in 2012. Dr. Chiao is also a professor in the joint Biomedical Engineering Program at UTA and UTSW since 2003, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center since 2009. His research covers  RF MicroElectroMechanical Systems, Quasi-Optical Wireless Systems, Micro-Nano-Optics, Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Fiber-Optical Communications,Medical Microdevices and Microsystems.

Jeff is currently with Euvis Inc, a High-Speed Mixed-Signal IC/Module company, which he co-founded  in 2000. Euvis designs high-performance RF, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs).

Alina has been involved in technology development projects for very large aperture phased arrays and advanced radar components. She was the Supervisor of Section 334’s Radar Technology & Hardware Implementation Group from 2004 to 2007 and of its RF Radar Electronics Group since 2007. Recently she was the Cognizant Engineer and Contract Technical Monitor for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Terminal Descent Sensor (TDS) Frequency Synthesizer Assembly (FSA).

Polly Preventza is a Managing Director at DelMorgan & Co., with over 13 years of professional experience as an investment banker advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. Prior to founding MPL Advisors, Ms. Preventza was a Principal at the Banc of America / Merrill Lynch Investment Banking group in New York, specializing in M&A of healthcare companies.  Her industry expertise spanned all sectors of the industry, including specialty pharmaceutical companies, medical devices and healthcare services companies. Ms.Preventza has also completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.

Chad is currently co-founder of the startup, Mission Microwave, Inc. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Engineering and a Founder of Wavestream, Chad Deckman brought the company’s core technology to the point at which commercialization was viable. Chad’s 38 GHz, 5-watt single chip Grid Amplifier still holds the record for the highest output power from a single chip at that frequency. Prior to co-founding Wavestream, Chad was a development engineer at Agilent.

Marić is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Maxim Integrated Products. He specializes in SMTS and Applications for Austria, Eastern Europe and Israel.

Lawrence Cheung has extensive experience in the design of amplifiers using Spatial Power combining techniques. After developing his design skills in the Caltech group that pioneered Wavestream’s “Grid” amplifier technology, Lawrence joined Wavestream as a principle designer of grid amplifier devices, waveguide and antenna structures for Spatial Power combining. As Managing Director of Wavestream Corporation (Asia) Pte Ltd, he has a broad range of responsibilities related to the development of state-of-the-art technology for insertion into Wavestream’s products and advancing Wavestream’s interests in Asian markets.

Dr. Wang is Vice President of Engineering at Los Angeles based Ophir RF Inc., a manufacturer of high power, solid state, broadband and band-specific amplifiers in the industry. Their products range in frequency from 10 kHz to 18 GHz, with power levels from 1 Watt to 24 kilowatts.

Arii was a Senior Engineer with Mitsubishi Space Software Company, Ltd., Kamakura, Japan, where he developed several spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, including Phased-Arraytype L-band SAR/Advanced Land Observing Satellite, and obtained many patents for advanced SAR applications such as moving target indicator and inverse SAR. His research areas covered Remote Sensing developing soil moisture retrieval algorithms  while at Caltech and JPL. Currently, he is with Mitsubishi Space Software and leads the R&D section as Radar Science Manager  in electromagnetic scattering theory and modeling, classification, and physical information extraction from polarimetric SAR imagery. Dr. Arii was the recipient of the Atwood Fellowship and was recognized as the GRSL Best Reviewer for 2012.

Olga Boric-Lubecke received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1989, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, in 1995. Prior to joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as an Associate Professor, she was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, where she conducted research in RF integrated circuit technology and biomedical applications of wireless systems. From 1996 to 1998, she was a visiting research scientist at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Sendai, Japan, and from 1995 to 1996, she was a Resident Research Associate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and serves on technical program and steering committees for various IEEE and SPIE symposia. She is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Circuits and Systems, Antennas and Propagation, and Education societies. Her current research interests include RFIC’s for wireless communications, millimeter-wave and microwave devices, circuits and systems, and biomedical applications.

Dr. Chung founded and is leading TriQuint Semiconductor’s new design center in Seoul, Korea. Their R&D focus is on developing cutting-edge technologies and products for wireless/mobile market. Dr. Chung is responsible for the functional and technical management of staff, budgeting and capital resources, staff recruiting of this center. He previously managed and/or designed projects at Wavestream Wireless Corp., Skyworks Solutions, Inc., and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Dr. Stimson is a researcher at the Defense, Science and Technology Organization (part of Australia’s Department of Defence), Adelaide, South Australia.

Dr. Tong is a cofounder of IpVenture. Before IpVenture, he cofounded and served as CEO of ProfessorQ (later renamed Mindfabric), a CRM software company based on patents he co-invented, using natural-language search technologies. He holds dozens of patents based on technologies he co-invented and has licensed them to a number of companies. Tong has a JD/MBA from Santa Clara University and a Ph.D in electrical engineering from Caltech. He has practiced intellectual property law at Bay Area law firms and at Hewlett-Packard where he also developed a number of microwave instruments.

Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His research interests are in the areas of applied electromagnetics and wireless communications. He is currently working on developing signal processing techniques for smart antennas in wireless applications. He was awarded the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Grant (CAREER) by the National Science Foundation. He has worked on polarimetric signal processing and on remote sensing.

Dr. Zah joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Red Bank, NJ, as a member of the Technical Staff in 1985 and was promoted to Senior Scientist in January 1995 and to Director of Optoelectronic Integration Research in April 1995. He joined the Science and Technology Division of Corning Incorporated on August 1, 1997, when Corning acquired his group from Bellcore, and is currently Research Director of Semiconductor Technologies Research. His department has participated in commercializing state of the art high power 980 and 14xx nm pumps. The recent research and development includes high power 1060-nm DBR lasers for green light generation by frequency doubling, visible GaN lasers, mid-IR quantum cascade lasers and 1.3/1.55 micron vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred and fifteen (seven invited) journal papers and one hundred and seventy (thirty-one invited) conference papers, and holds twenty-eight U. S. Patents

in the areas of optoelectronic devices and optical fiber communications.

Dr. Zah received the Bellcore Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award in 1992 for his innovative contributions to the applications of lightwave technology to advanced fiber networks, an R&D 100 award in 1994 and LEOS Engineering Achievement Award in 2005 for his uncooled AlGaInAs lasers designed for fiber-in-the-loop applications, and another R&D 100 award in 1996 for WDM network access modules incorporating his multiwavelength DFB laser arrays. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America. He has served on numerous technical committees for APOC, CLEO, ECOC, IEDM, IPR, ISLC, LEOS, and OFC, as a conference chair of LEOS’2003 and APOC’2007, and as an Associate Editor of Photonics Technology Letters from 1993 to 2008 and and Journal of Lightwave Technology since 2009.