Asad Abidi

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Asad Ali Abidi
Asad Abidi (on left) receiving the IEEE Pederson Award in 2008
Born	July 12, 1956 (1956-07-12) (age 55)
Citizenship	Pakistani
Nationality	Pakistani, American
Fields	Electrical Engineering
Institutions	Bell Laboratories University of California, Los Angeles Lahore University of Management Sciences Cornell University
Alma mater	Imperial College, London University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Robert Meyer
Known for	CMOS RF RF Circuit Modeling
Notable awards	IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits (2008) IEEE Third Millennium Medal IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award

Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956)^[1] is a Pakistani electrical engineer, who was the first dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences's School of Science and Engineering. He is a Professor of electrical and electronic engineering at both the University of California, Los Angeles and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, and he is an Honorary Professor at Cornell University.

Life and Education

He received his B.Sc. degree (with first-class honors) in electrical engineering from the Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1976.^[2] Later he went to United States where he attended University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D in 1981 under the supervision of Robert Meyer. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).^[2][3] He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean and helped shape the early days of this new institution^[4] The school is modeled along the lines of world's leading technical universities, primarily MIT and Caltech, and is expected to produce a new generation of scientists and engineers, to help transform the economic and technical landscape of Pakistan.^[5]

Academic career

Since 1985, Asad has held a position at UCLA, where he is currently a full professor.^[2] From 1981 to 1984, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 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 the only two Pakistani-origin members of the NAE.^[6] and recognized as ISSCC top ten author.^[2] He is well-known and has been credited for his research on RF-CMOS circuits which enabled the wireless revolution in late 1990s.

He 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 of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Personal life

Asad Abidi was born in 1957 to a civil engineer and a homemaker. His father, Asghar Ali Abidi, was selected, with his close friend Ismail Gulgee, to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard University on a scholarship, where he subsequently held a lectureship position. His father soon returned to Pakistan to help design the Mangla Dam (an "Abidi Guesthouse" still stands in his honor). Asad grew up moving around many different regions of Pakistan until he was finally placed in Cadet College, Hasan Abdal. At the age of 16, he was sent to England to live with his uncle. There, Asad attended a small polytechnic school where he made good friends with his teacher. He took an A-level crash course and ended up doing very well in his exams, securing him a position in Imperial College, London on scholarship. Although Asad was significantly younger than all of his classmates, he managed to spring up to the top of his class and subsequently graduated with the highest possible honors.^[7]

At the age of 19, Asad traveled to America to pursue Master and Doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, rejecting a scholarship offer from Stanford University. Upon receiving his Ph.D he was offered a job position at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Bell Labs, Asad became good friends with future Nobel Laureate George E. Smith.

Awards and recognitions

• 2009 Third World Academy of Sciences
• 2008 UCLA HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits^[8]

  "For pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-CMOS"

• 2007 National Academy of Engineering^[9]

  "For contributions to the development of integrated circuits for MOS RF communications"

• Top 10 contributors to the ISSCC in its 50 year history^{[citation needed]}
• 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
• 1998 Design Contest Award at the Design Automation Conference
• 1997 ISSCC Jack Raper Outstanding Technology Directions Paper Award
• 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award^[10]
• 1996 Best Paper Award of the 21st European Solid State Circuits Conference
• 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching Postdoctoral Research Associate

Fellowships/Membership

• An IEEE Fellow
• A member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
• Associate Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences

Books

• Ahmad Mirzaei, Asad Abidi, ""Analysis and Design of IF and RF Circuits for SDR Receivers: Anti-aliasing Pre-filters, Accurate and Low-noise Quadrature LO Generation and Injection-locked Dividers"", VDM Verlag, 2008
• Emad Hegazi, Jacob Rael, and Asad Abidi, "The Designer's Guide to High-Purity Oscillators", Springer, 2005. ISBN 1402076665
• A. A. Abidi, P. R. Gray, R. G. Meyer, editors, "Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications", IEEE Press, NY, 1998

References

1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "UCLA Electrical Engineering - Asad Abidi, Professor". The University of California. http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-abidi.htm. Retrieved December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04). 
3. ^ "NAE Member directories - Dr. Asad A. Abidi". U.S. National Academy of Engineering. http://www.members.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/7A51569FFA5FC91286257552006B3736?opendocument. Retrieved December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04). 
4. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}
5. ^ MIT, Stanford professors at LUMS today, Daily Times, January 16, 2007.
6. ^ LUMS SSE - An Interview with Dean Abidi
7. ^ "IEEE The Institute - Asad Abidi returns to Pakistan to open tech university". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1016&article=tionline/legacy/inst2008/sep08/profile.xml&. Retrieved December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04). 
8. ^ "IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/pederson_rl.pdf. Retrieved November 15, 2010 (2010-11-15). 
9. ^ "Asad Abidi, Mark Horowitz and Teresa Meng Elected to U. S. National Academy of Engineering". IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. April 2007 (2007-04). http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/sscs/menuitem.f07ee9e3b2a01d06bb9305765bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=sscs_level1_article&TheCat=6020&path=sscs/07Spring&file=NAE.xml. Retrieved December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04). 
10. ^ "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/fink_rl.pdf. Retrieved November 11, 2010 (2010-11-11). 

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Name	Abidi, Asad
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Short description	Pakistani electrical engineer and scientist
Date of birth	July 12, 1956
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