Ali Hajimiri is an Iranian-American

Iranian-American

Iranian-Americans are Americans of Iranian ancestry or people possessing Iranian and American dual citizenship.Iranian-Americans are amongst the most highly educated groups in the United States...

 academic, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering who currently holds the Thomas G. Myers chaired professorship of Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology is a university of higher education in technology, engineering and physical sciences in Tehran. Sharif University of Technology is one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and is considered Iran's MIT...

 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He has also worked for Bell Laboratories, Philips Semiconductors, and Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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. In 2002, he cofounded Axiom Microdevices Inc. together with former students, Ichiro Aoki and Scott Kee, based on their invention of the Distributed active transformer

Distributed active transformer

Distributed active transformer is a circuit topology that allows low-voltage transistors to be used to generate large amounts of RF power...

 (DAT), which made it possible to integrated RF CMOS power amplifier suitable for cellular phones in CMOS

CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits...

 technology. Axiom shipped millions of units before it was acquired by Skyworks Solutions

Skyworks Solutions

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 in 2009.
He and his students demonstrated the world's first radar-on-a-chip in silicon technology in 2004.

He was selected to the world top 35 innovators under 35 (TR35

TR35

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) at the age 32.
He is an IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow

An IEEE member is elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for "unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest"...

and has been the recipient of numerous other awards.

External links

• http://www.its.caltech.edu/~hajimiri/ Caltech