Asad Abidi

Asad Ali Abidi
Born (1956-07-12) July 12, 1956 (age 68)
NationalityPakistani, American
Alma materImperial College, London
University of California, Berkeley
Known forRF CMOS
RF circuit modeling
AwardsIEEE 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
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering
Electronics engineering
InstitutionsBell Laboratories
University of California, Los Angeles
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Doctoral advisorRobert G. Meyer

Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956)[1] is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).[2] He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology during the late 1980s to early 1990s. As of 2008, the radio transceivers in all wireless networking devices and modern mobile phones are mass-produced as RF CMOS devices.

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 prominent 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]

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
  2. ^ "Asad Abidi: Back to the Future - IEEE - The Institute". IEEE. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  3. ^ "Asad A. Abidi". eeweb.ee.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  4. ^ "Honouring a Nobel laureate: Prof Asad Abidi named inaugural holder of Abdus Salam Chair - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  5. ^ "Dr. Asad A. Abidi".
  6. ^ "Professor Asad Abidi Named the Inaugural Holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS". LUMS. January 10, 2017. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  7. ^ Abidi CV twas.org