Nationality Pakistani, American Doctoral advisor Robert G. Meyer | Name Asad Abidi Fields Electrical engineering | |
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Born July 12, 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-07-12 ) Institutions Bell LaboratoriesUniversity of California, Los AngelesLahore University of Management Sciences Alma mater Imperial College, LondonUniversity of California, Berkeley Doctoral students William ColleranAhmadReza RofougaranMaryam RofougaranHooman DarabiRay GomezJacob RaelAhmad MirzaeiRay GomezSaeed ChehraziDavid MurphyMohyee MikhemarMichael YousofShervin MoloudiMohammad Esmail Heidari Known for CMOS RFRF Circuit Modeling Books The Pimlico Connection: Imperial College of Science & Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Third-year Group Project, 1975-76 Similar People Paul R Gray, Behzad Razavi, Ali Hajimiri, M C Frank Chang, Ali H Sayed | ||
Asad Ali Abidi PhD (born July 12, 1956) 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.
Contents
- Life and education
- Academic career
- Awards and recognitions
- Fellowships and academy membership
- References
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. In 2017, he was named as the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.
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.
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. 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). He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean.
Academic career
Since 1985, Abidi worked at UCLA, where he is currently a Distinguished Chancellor's Professor. 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. and was recognized as an ISSCC top-ten author. 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.