Hossein Yassaie

Hossein Yassaie
Born M. Hossein Yassaie
Institutions
Alma mater University of Birmingham (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Application of charge-coupled devices to within-pulse sector scanning sonars (1983)
Notable awards Knight Bachelor (2013)
Website
www.imgtec.com/investors/boardofdirectors.asp

Sir Hossein Yassaie is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Imagination Technologies where he has worked since 1992.[1]

Education and early life

Yassaie came to Britain in 1976 from Iran and became a United Kingdom national in 1984. He studied Electronics and Communications at the University of Birmingham gaining a first class honours Bachelor of Science degree in 1979. He stayed at Birmingham to complete a Doctor of Philosophy degree on the application of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) to Sonar.[2]

Career

Following his PhD, Hossein was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham[3][4] for several years.[5][6][7][8][9]

Yassaie then spent eight years working at STMicroelectronics and Inmos.[1] He joined Imagination Technologies in 1992, becoming its CEO in June 1998[5][6][7][8][9] focusing the business on advanced technology development using the semiconductor intellectual property business model and created the brand Pure.

Yassaie is a non-executive director of Toumaz Holdings Limited.

Awards and honours

Hossein received a knighthood in the 2013 New Year Honours in recognition of his services to technology and innovation.[10] He was nominated for the award for Services to Creativity & Technology at the first British Muslim Awards held in 2013.[11] He was awarded the honorary degree of DUniv by the University of Birmingham in 2013.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Imagination Technologies PLC Board of Directors". 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-12-04.
  2. ↑ Yassaie, M. Hossein (1983). Application of charge-coupled devices to within-pulse sector scanning sonars (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham.
  3. ↑ Hossein Yassaie's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  4. ↑ Yassaie, M. H.; Ong, L. H.; Denbigh, P. N. (1983). "Application of time-delay-and-integrate c.c.d.s in sector scanning sonars". Radio and Electronic Engineer 53 (7–8): 295. doi:10.1049/ree.1983.0053.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Honorary Graduates". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Spanier, Gideon (21 September 2012). "Hossein Yassaie: Meet the man with the big Imagination". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Outstanding Alumni". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  8. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Neate, Rupert (11 November 2009). "Imagination boss Hossein Yassaie wages war on Britain's lack of ambition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Hossein Yassaie knighted for services to technology and innovation". Imagination. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  10. ↑ http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/10197507.Winners_honoured_at_British_Muslim_Awards