Ali Hajimiri

Also published under:A. Hajimiri, A. H. Hajimiri

Affiliation

Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Topic

Transmission Line,Wireless Power Transfer,Beamforming,Ground Plane,Phased Array,Power Transfer,Silicon Photonics,Bulk CMOS,CMOS Process,DC Power,Dielectric Layer,Dipole Antenna,Flexible Array,Internet Of Things,Patch Antenna,Phase Shift,Solar Power,Transimpedance Amplifier,Wireless Power,polySia,Absolute Reference,Amorphous Silicon,Amplification Stage,Analog-to-digital Converter,Antenna Array,Aperture,Aperture Size,Arbitrary Waveform Generator,Array Elements,Array System,Automated Manufacturing,Avalanche Photodiode,Background Reflectance,Beam Steering,Bending Radius,Biomedical Engineering,Can Survive,Capture Efficiency,Center Frequency,Channel Bandwidth,Clock Phase,Coherent Receiver,Complex Image,Complex Poles,Conductive Layer,Constant Curvature,Cost Analysis,Cost Model,Coupling Loss,DC Gain,

Biography

Ali Hajimiri (S'95–M'99–F'10) received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
He was a Design Engineer with Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, he was with Sun Microsystems working on the UltraSPARC microprocessor's cache RAM design methodology. During the summer of 1997, he was 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 Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Microelectronics Laboratory. His research interests are high-speed and RF integrated circuits for applications in sensors, biomedical devices, and communication systems. He co-founded Axiom Microdevices Inc. in 2002, whose fully-integrated CMOS PA has shipped more than one hundred million units, and was acquired by Skyworks Inc. in 2009.
Dr. Hajimiri is the author of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (Springer, 1999) and has authored and coauthored more than 100 refereed journal and conference technical articles. He holds more than 50 U.S. and European patents. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE 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) 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). Dr. Hajimiri was selected to the top 100 innovators (TR100) list in 2004. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He is the recipient of Caltech's Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award as well as 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, The Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE JSSC Best Paper Award of 2004, the ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding 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.