| Asad Ali Abidi | |
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Asad Abidi (on left) receiving the IEEE Pederson Award in 2008
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| Born | July 12, 1956 |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Nationality | Pakistani, American |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | Bell Laboratories University of California, Los Angeles Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| Alma mater | Imperial College, London University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Meyer |
| Known for | CMOS RF RF Circuit Modeling |
| Notable awards | IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits (2008) IEEE Third Millennium Medal IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award |
Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956)[1] is a Pakistani electrical engineer, who was the first dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences's School of Science and Engineering. He is a Professor of electrical and electronic engineering at both the University of California, Los Angeles and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.
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He received his B.Sc. degree (with first-class honors) in electrical engineering from the Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1976.[2] Later he went to United States where he attended University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D in 1981 under the supervision of Robert Meyer. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).[2][3] He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean and helped shape the early days of this new institution[4] The school is modeled along the lines of world's leading technical universities, primarily MIT and Caltech, and is expected to produce a new generation of scientists and engineers, to help transform the economic and technical landscape of Pakistan.[5]
Since 1985, Asad has held a position at UCLA, where he is currently a full professor.[2] From 1981 to 1984, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff at the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in 1989. He is one of the only two Pakistani-origin members of the NAE.[6] and recognized as ISSCC top ten author.[2] He is well-known and has been credited for his research on RF-CMOS circuits which enabled the wireless revolution in late 1990s.
He served as the Program Secretary for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 1984 to 1990, and was the General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was the Secretary of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Asad Abidi was born in 1957 to a civil engineer and a homemaker. His father, Asghar Ali Abidi, was selected, with his close friend Ismail Gulgee, to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard University on a scholarship, where he subsequently held a lectureship position. His father soon returned to Pakistan to help design the Mangla Dam (an "Abidi Guesthouse" still stands in his honor). Asad grew up moving around many different regions of Pakistan until he was finally placed in Cadet College, Hasan Abdal. At the age of 16, he was sent to England to live with his uncle. There, Asad attended a small polytechnic school where he made good friends with his teacher. He took an A-level crash course and ended up doing very well in his exams, securing him a position in Imperial College, London on scholarship. Although Asad was significantly younger than all of his classmates, he managed to spring up to the top of his class and subsequently graduated with the highest possible honors.[7]
At the age of 19, Asad traveled to America to pursue Master and Doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, rejecting a scholarship offer from Stanford University. Upon receiving his Ph.D he was offered a job position at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Bell Labs, Asad became good friends with future Nobel Laureate George E. Smith.