Fellow
Abidi Asad
Distinguished Chancellor's Professor
Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
Affiliation / Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Biodata
Abidi is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his BSc in electrical engineering from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1976, and his MS (1978) and PhD (1981) in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served in many other capacities including: Member, technical staff, Advanced LSI Development Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1981-84; visiting faculty researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, 1989; and editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, 1992-95. He has received several honours including the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Solid-State Circuits Award; Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award; IEEE Millennium Medal; and membership in the US National Academy of Engineering and IEEE. He specializes in the design of analog integrated circuits, and is credited with single-chip CMOS radios.
Abidi is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Analog circuits, circuit design, communication circuits, analog-to-digital converters, electronic instrumentation
ELECTED
2009
Section
05. Engineering & Computer Sciences
abidi_curriculum_vitae_0.pdf
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
United States of America (the)
Public contact information
EMAIL
abidi@ee.ucla.edu
Last updated on 12/07/2023