Asad Abidi
Asad Ali Abidi | |
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Born | July 12, 1956 |
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 G. Meyer |
Doctoral students |
William Colleran AhmadReza Rofougaran Maryam Rofougaran Hooman Darabi Ray Gomez Jacob Rael Ahmad Mirzaei Ray Gomez Saeed Chehrazi David Murphy Mohyee Mikhemar Michael Yousof Shervin Moloudi Mohammad Esmail Heidari |
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 Member of the National Academy of Engineering |
Asad Ali Abidi PhD (born July 12, 1956)[1] is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer who serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.[2]
Born and raised in Pakistan, Abidi received his B.S. from the Imperial College London followed by a M.S. and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He worked as an electrical engineer with Bell Labs and in January 1985 joined UCLA as a tenured academic. In 2007, he left for a three year sabbatical to work as a founding dean of the engineering school at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and returned to Los Angeles in 2009.[3] In 2017, he was named as the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.[4]
Abidi is a prominet academic and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The World Academy of Sciences. He received the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits in 2008 In 2015, UC, Berkeley recognised him as a distinguished alumnus for his contributions to the theory and practice of analog and RF circuits.[5][6][7]
Life and education
Abidi was educated at Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, and gained a B.Sc. degree (with first-class honours) in electrical engineering at Imperial College, London, in 1976.[8] Later he attended University of California, Berkeley; he gained an M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D in 1981 under the supervision of Robert Meyer. Abidi is a IEEE Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).[8][9] He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean.[10]
Academic career
Since 1985, Abidi worked at UCLA, where he is currently a Distinguished Chancellor's Professor.[8] From 1981 to 1984, he worked for Bell Laboratories 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 only a few Pakistani-origin members of the NAE.[5] and was recognized as an ISSCC top-ten author.[8] Abidi 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-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Awards and recognitions
- 2013 Armstrong Memorial Lecturer, Columbia University[8]
- 2013 ISSCC Outstanding Contributor over its 60 years[8]
- 2012 Best Paper Award, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (co-winner)[8]
- 2012 ISSCC Distinguished Technical Paper Award[8]
- 2009 The World Academy of Sciences-TWAS[8]
- 2008 UCLA HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching[8]
- 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits[11]
- "For pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-CMOS"
- 2007 National Academy of Engineering[12]
- "For contributions to the development of integrated circuits for MOS RF communications"
- Top 10 contributors to the ISSCC in its 50-year history[8]
- 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal[8]
- 1998 Design Contest Award at the Design Automation Conference[8]
- 1997 ISSCC Jack Raper Outstanding Technology Directions Paper Award[8]
- 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award[13]
- 1996 Best Paper Award of the 21st European Solid State Circuits Conference[8]
- 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching Postdoctoral Research Associate[8]
Fellowships and academy membership
- An IEEE Fellow (1996)[8]
- Member, United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (2007)[8]
- Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2009)[8]
Bibliography
- Ahmad Mirzaei, Asad Abidi, Analysis and Design of IF and RF Circuits for SDR Receivers: Anti-aliasing Pre-filters, Accurate and Low-noise Quadrature LO Generation and Injection-locked Dividers, VDM Verlag, 2008
- Emad Hegazi, Jacob Rael, and Asad Abidi, The Designer's Guide to High-Purity Oscillators, Springer, 2005. ISBN 1-4020-7666-5
- Asad A. Abidi, P. R. Gray, and R. G. Meyer, editors, Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications, IEEE Press, NY, 1998
References
- ↑ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .
- ↑ "Asad Abidi: Back to the Future - IEEE - The Institute". theinstitute.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
- ↑ "Asad A. Abidi". eeweb.ee.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
- ↑ "Honouring a Nobel laureate: Prof Asad Abidi named inaugural holder of Abdus Salam Chair - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
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- ↑ "Professor Asad Abidi Named the Inaugural Holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS". LUMS. 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
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