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Asad Ali Abidi
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Citizenship	Pakistani
Nationality	Pakistani, American
Fields	Electrical Engineering
Institutions	Bell Laboratories University of California, Los Angeles Lahore University of Management Sciences
Alma mater	Imperial College, London University of California, Berkeley
Academic advisors	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 Donald G. Fink Prize

Asad Ali Abidi 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, Lahore, Pakistan.

Contents 1 Life and Education 2 Academic career 3 Personal life 4 Fame and Legacy 5 Awards and recognitions 6 Fellowships/Membership 7 Books 8 References

[edit] 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. 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).^[1][2]. He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean and helped shape the early days of this new institution to become a state of the art, hi tech science and engineering. He was the most enthusiastic and promising leader this institution could have.[2] The school is modeled along the lines of worlds leading tech universities such as MIT and Clatech and is expected to produce a new generation of scientists and engineers, to help transform the economic and technical landscape of Pakistan. [3]

[edit] Academic career

He is a full professor at UCLA since 1985.[4] 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.^[3] and recognized as ISSCC top ten author^[1]. He is well-known and has been credited for his research on RF-CMOS circuits which enabled the wireless revolution in late 1990s.

He has served as the Program Secretary for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 1984 to 1990, and 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.

[edit] Personal life

Asad Abidi was born in 1957 to a civil engineer and a homemaker. He grew up moving around many different regions of Pakistan, until he was placed in Cadet College, Hasan Abdal. At the age of 16, his father sent him to England to live with his uncle. There, Asad attended a small polytechnic college 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 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.^[4] At the age of 19, Asad traveled to America on scholarship 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.

Asad is an avid book collector, and has a large library, where he is thought to spend most of his time at home. His library is known by his students because of its large spectrum of genres.

[edit] Fame and Legacy

Asad Abidi is known by the science community as one of the most prominent electrical engineers of Pakistani origin.^{[citation needed]} He has produced many research papers, and has won ample awards for them.

[edit] Awards and recognitions

• 2008 UCLA HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching
• IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid State Circuits (2008)^[5]

• 2007 National Academy of Engineering[5]

• "For pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-CMOS"^[5]

• Top 10 contributors to the ISSCC in its 50 year history
• 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 Award
• 1996 Best Paper Award of the 21st European Solid State Circuits Conference
• 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching

[edit] Fellowships/Membership

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

[edit] Books

• 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

[edit] References

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