Thomas H. Lee received the S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively. He joined Analog Devices in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, CA where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS.
He has twice received the “Best Paper” award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a “Best Student Paper” at ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation Fellowship recipient. He served for a decade as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society, and has been a DL of the IEEE Microwave Society as well. He holds 57 U.S. patents and authored The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (now in its second edition), and Planar Microwave Engineering, both with Cambridge University Press. He is a co-author of four additional books on RF circuit design, and also cofounded Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk in 2006). He is the founder of ZeroG Wireless. He is currently on leave from Stanford to serve as MTO Director at DARPA.
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.
Derek K. Shaeffer received his B.S. degree from the University of Southern California in 1993, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1995 and 1999 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1992 to 1997, he worked for Tektronix, Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon where he cut his teeth designing A/D converter and communications circuits in CMOS and bipolar technologies. His current research interests are in CMOS and bipolar implementations of low noise, high linearity wireless communications receivers.
In his spare time, Derek enjoys playing piano and writing music for the piano and guitar.
Joel L. Dawson joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in September of 2004. He received his S.B. and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1996 and 1997, respectively. While attaining his MEng degree, Professor Dawson participated in the VI-A Internship program at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003. During his doctoral research, Professor Dawson worked in the area of RF circuit design as a part of Professor Thomas H. Lee’s research group. He investigated innovative techniques to improve power dissipation and linearity of power amplifiers, a key component of wireless systems. In 2003 he co-founded Aspendos Communications, a startup company based in San Jose, CA. Professor Dawson was also the recipient of an NSF Career Award in 2008 and was selected for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009.
Mona Jarrahi received her Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007 and served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California Berkeley from 2007 to 2008. After serving as an Assistant Professor in University of Michigan Ann Arbor, she joined UCLA in 2013 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory. Her research group focuses on Terahertz/Millimeter-Wave Electronics and Optoelectronics, Imaging and Spectroscopy Systems, and Microwave Photonics. Prof. Jarrahi has received several prestigious awards in her career including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE); Early Career Award in Nanotechnology from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council; Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award from National Academy of Engineering; Young Investigator Awards from the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF); the Elizabeth C. Crosby Research Award from the University of Michigan; and best-paper awards at the International Microwave Symposium and International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. Prof. Jarrahi is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves and a member of the program committee of the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IEEE International Microwave Symposium, International Workshop on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, SPIE Photonics West Conference, and SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference. She also serves as a panelist and reviewer for National Science Foundation and Department of Energy and a member of the Terahertz Technology and Applications Committee of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Prof. Jarrahi is a senior member of IEEE and SPIE and a member of OSA.
Hirad Samavati received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1994 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
During the summer of 1996, he was with Maxim Integrated Products, where he designed building blocks for a low-power infrared transceiver IC. His current research interests include RF circuits and analog and mixed-signal VLSI, particularly integrated trans ceivers for wireless communications. As part of his research, he built and tested a CMOS front-end for a 5GHz wireless-LAN receiver.
Mr. Samavati received a departmental fellowship from Stanford University in 1995 and a fellowship from IBM Corp. in 1998. He is the winner of the ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper award for the paper “Fractal Capacitors” in 1998.
Ramin Farjad-rad received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, and M.Sc. & Ph.D. from Stanford University all in Electrical Engineering. He has established himself as a leading architect of high performance communications chips with wide range of expertise and experience in mixed-signal circuit design, digital signal processing and coding. His research at Stanford was focused on a 10Gbps multi-level PAM serial link CMOS transceiver and equalizer for data transmission over copper channels. Ramin started his career in 1995 at SUN Microsystems, and later in 1996 joined LSI Logic, where he developed different Multi Gb/s serial transceiver architectures.
Ramin co-founded Velio Communications in 1999, where he focused on the development of low-power Terabit network switch chips as the company chief engineer. After Velio acquisition in 2003, he served as the senior principal architect at RamBus Inc. till 2005. As the technical founder at Aquantia, Ramin has servered as company Chief Architect & VP of Technology, where he has been developing Ethernet physical layer products. He holds 40 granted US patents, over 30 pending patents, and numerous technical publications in the field of communication ICs and systems.
Hamid joined the GenapSys team with more than 14 years of industry experience, where Dr. Rategh has been responsible for the development of a wide range of products, from RFICs to adaptive equalizers for optical communication and also Mixed-Signal Memory interface products. Prior to joining GenapSys, Dr. Rategh was Sr. Director of Engineering at Inphi, where he lead many fronts including signal integrity efforts for the company’s 100G product as well as development of Inphi’s first generation memory buffer chip. Dr. Rategh was Sr. Director of engineering at Scientera Networks where he was responsible for the development of adaptive Electronic Dispersion Compensation chips for 10GBASE-LRM using their proprietary analog signal processing technology. Dr. Rategh was also cofounder and VP of Engineering of Tavanza which was later acquired by Celeritek in 2002 and subsequently by Anadigics in 2003.
Dr. Rategh holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, a MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Dr. Oralkan joined the faculty at the North Carolina State University in January 2012. His research interests are at the interface of electrical engineering and the life sciences, particularly on using integrated circuits and underlying technologies to implement medical devices and supporting systems for diagnostics and therapy. More specifically, his current research focuses on developing devices and systems for ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, image-guided therapy, biological and chemical sensing, and ultrasound neural stimulation.
Prior to joining NC State, he was a Research Associate (2004-2007) and then a Senior Research Associate (2007-2011) in the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University, where he worked on capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers. He also served as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, CA (2009-2011).
