Expert Details
Integrated Circuits, Wireless Communication Circuits, RF-IC, Analog IC, Mixed-Signal IC
ID: 730712
California, USA
Consulted for a start-up company called Saber-Tek. Designed the millimeter-wave front-end for a high-speed short-range wireless transceiver.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2001 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: USC |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2001 to 2012 | Employer: University of California | Title: Distinguished Professor | Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
Responsibilities:Scholarly research, serving as principle investigator of grant proposals |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2009 to 2011 | Employer: Broadcom | Title: Engineering Consulting | Department: |
Responsibilities:Consulting position conducting design of high frequency integrated circuits in CMOS. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2009 to 2012 | Employer: Acacia | Title: Patent Expert | Department: |
Responsibilities:Providing expertise on patent infringements. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2007 to 2008 | Employer: SaberTek | Title: Engineering Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Designing high frequency circuits. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2010 to Present | Agency: NSF | Role: Principle Investigator | Description: |
Career Accomplishments
| Professional Appointments |
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| - Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits - Member of Techical Program Committees of several professional conferences |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Outstanding Innovator, Office of Technology Alliance, UC-Irvine, 2011 Faculty of the Year Award, UC-Irvine's Engineering Student Council, 2010 School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award, 2009 First Place Winner of Business Plan Competition, Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine, 2009 Best Concept Paper Award, Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine, 2009 Selected as one of the 16 Finalists for Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Cisco Global Business Plan Competition, 2009 Low-Power Design Contest Award, IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, 2008 with Ph.D. students Fred Tzeng and Amin Jahanian. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, 2007 for the journal paper "Model-Order Reduction Using Variational Balanced Truncation with Spectral Shaping," (with Massoud Pedram) IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 879-891, April 2006. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, 2005 for the journal paper "Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004 Teaching Excellence Award, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, 2005 2006 Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering Nominated for the Chancellor's Living Our Values Award, 2007 IEEE Faculty Advisor, IEEE Chapter of Orange County, 2004 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2000 |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Has published more 100 journal and conferences in most prestigious IEEE conferences and journals in the areas of solid-state circuits, circuits and sytems, microwave theory and techniques He is a holder of 6 U.S. patents. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Served as a patent expert for a trade secret litigation case, Palo Alto, CA |
| Training / Seminars |
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| - Keynote Speaker of several international conferences. - Guest Speaker of several international conferences and workshops. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Farsi |
Fields of Expertise
analog-to-digital conversion, application-specific integrated circuit, bipolar integrated circuit, circuit integration, CMOS pad, custom integrated circuit, electronic circuit design, gallium arsenide integrated circuit, high-frequency integrated circuit, hybrid integrated circuit, hybrid integrated circuit design, linear integrated circuit, medium-scale integrated circuit, metal-insulator semiconductor integrated circuit, metal-oxide semiconductor integrated circuit, microprocessor circuit, microwave amplifier, microwave frequency, microwave integrated circuit design, microwave mixer, ultralarge-scale integrated circuit, very high-density integrated circuit, very high-speed integrated circuit, very large-scale integrated circuit, very large-scale integrated circuit simulation