Asad Ali Abidi | |
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Born | July 12, 1956 |
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 |
Doctoral advisor | Robert G. Meyer |
Doctoral students | William Colleran AhmadReza Rofougaran Maryam Rofougaran Hooman Darabi Ray Gomez Jacob Rael Ahmad Mirzaei Ray Gomez Saeed Chehrazi David Murphy Mohyee Mikhemar Michael Yousof Shervin Moloudi Mohammad Esmail Heidari |
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 Member of the National Academy of Engineering |
Asad Ali Abidi PhD (born July 12, 1956) is a Pakistani electrical engineer who serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.
Born and raised in Pakistan, 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. In 2017, he was named as the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS.
Abidi is a prominet 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.