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ty of California, Berkeley. From
1988 to 1991 he worked for Integrated
CMOS Systems Sunnyvale
on device and circuit modeling.
From 1991 to 1996 he worked for
Hal Computer Systems, Campbell,
CA on clock synthesizers and circuit
design automation.
Before joining AMD, he worked
for Chromatic Research, Sunnyvale
on clock synthesizers, D/A circuits,
and memories. His technical interests
include PLL and DLL design,
clock-and-data recovery, circuit
analysis software, and high-speed
IO circuits. He was a member of
the ISSCC Digital Program Committee
from 2001-2006 and created an
online course on PLL Design for
the IEEE Expert Now program in
2005. In his spare time, Dennis is
an active jazz musician who
recently performed in China and
Vietnam.
Ian Galton received
the Sc.B. degree
from Brown University
in 1984, and the
M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from the
California Institute
of Technology in 1989 and 1992,
respectively, all in electrical engineering.
Since 1996 he has been a
professor of electrical engineering
at the University of California, San
Diego where he teaches and conducts
research in the field of
mixed-signal integrated circuits
and systems for communications.
Prior to 1996 he was with UC
Irvine, and prior to 1989 he was
with Acuson and Mead Data Central.
His research involves the
invention, analysis, and integrated
circuit implementation of critical
communication system blocks
such as data converters, frequency
synthesizers, and clock recovery
systems. In addition to his academic
research, he regularly consults
at several semiconductor
companies and teaches industryoriented
short courses on the
design of mixed-signal integrated
circuits. He has served on a corporate
Board of Directors, on several
corporate Technical Advisory
Boards, as the Editor-in-Chief of
the IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems II: Analog and Digital
Signal Processing, as a member of
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Administrative Committee, as a
member of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society Board of Governors,
and as a member of the IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits
Conference Technical Program
Committee.
Ali Hajimiri received
the B.S. degree in
Electronics Engineering
from the
Sharif University of
Technology, and the
M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering
from the Stanford University in
1996 and 1998, respectively.
He has had appointments with
Philips Semiconductors, Sun
Microsystems, and Lucent Technologies
(Bell Labs) in the past. In
1998, he joined the Faculty of the
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, where he is a Professor
of Electrical Engineering and the
director of Microelectronics Laboratory.
His research interests are highspeed
and RF integrated circuits.
Dr. Hajimiri is the author of The
Design of Low Noise Oscillators
(Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1999) and
holds several U.S. and European
patents. He is a member of the
Technical Program Committee of
the International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC). He has
also served as an Associate Editor
of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits (JSSC), an Associate Editor
of IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems (TCAS): Part-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 Tech-
niques, and the 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 and
is a Fellow of Okawa Foundation.
He is the recipient of Caltech's
Graduate Students Council Teaching
and Mentoring award as well as
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, Netherlands. He was a
co-recipient of the IEEE JSSC Best
Paper Award of 2004, the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding
Paper Award, two times corecipient
of CICC's best paper
awards, and a three times winner of
the IBM faculty partnership award
as well as National Science Foundation
CAREER award. He is a
cofounder of Axiom Microdevices
Inc. and member of SSCS AdCom.
Tadahiro Kuroda
(M’88-SM’00-F’06)
received the Ph.D.
degree in electrical
engineering from the
University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan, in 1999.
In 1982, he joined Toshiba Corporation,
where he designed
CMOS SRAMs, gate arrays and
standard cells. From 1988 to 1990,
he was a Visiting Scholar with the
University of California, Berkeley,
where he conducted research in
the field of VLSI CAD. In 1990, he
was back to Toshiba, and engaged
in the research and development
of BiCMOS ASICs, ECL gate arrays,
high-speed CMOS LSIs for
telecommunications, and lowpower
CMOS LSIs for multimedia
and mobile applications. He
invented a Variable Threshold-voltage
CMOS (VTCMOS) technology
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