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"RF Front-End Chip Design for Wireless Communication" by Dr.Mohammad Madihian

Mohammad Madihian received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1983, and joined NEC Central Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan, where he worked on research and development of Si and GaAs device-based digital as well as microwave and millimeter-wave monolithic IC's.

In 1999, he moved to NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, New Jersey, and was the Chief Patent Officer and Department Head conducting research activities for wireless communications and networking systems. Since 2007 he has been with NEC Corporation of America as Director, Wireless Business Development, Radio Communication Systems Division.

He has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and conference publications including 80 IEEE publications and 26 invited talks. He has a book as well as a book chapter and holds 90 Japan/US registered or pending patents on device, circuit, and system aspects of wireless communications.

Mohammad Madihian received the MTT-S Microwave Prize in 1988 and IEEE Fellow Award in 1998. He holds eight NEC Distinguished R&D Achievement Awards and three MTT-S Certificates of Recognition. He has served as Guest Editor to the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Japan IEICE Transactions on Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is currently serving on the IEEE MTT-S Speaker's Bureau, MTT-S Publication Committee, IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS) Executive Committee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) Executive Committee, IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Program Committee, MTT-6 Subcommittee, and MTT Transactions Editorial Board.

Mohammad Madihian has been an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University, Philladelphia, PA, since 2004, and the Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Microwave Science & Technology, since its inception in 2006. He is the 2008 CSICS Executive Committee Chair Emeritus, and has been chairing the RWS Executive Committee since 2007.

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Tutorial (Post Lunch Session )
04 Dec 08

“Software Defined Radios: Design Architecture & Efficient Transmitters” by Dr.Fadhel Ghannouchi

Fadhel Ghannouchi is currently a professor, iCORE/Canada Research Chairs and Director of the iRadio Laboratory (www.iradio.ucalgary.ca) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He was with Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal until 2005, where he taught microwave theory and techniques and RF communications systems since 1984. He has held several invited positions at several academic and research institutions in Europe, North America and Japan. He has provided consulting services to a number of microwave and wireless communications companies. His research interests are in the areas of RF and wireless communications, nonlinear modeling of microwave devices and communications systems, design of power- and spectrum-efficient microwave amplification systems and design of SDR systems for wireless and satellite communications applications. His research has led to over 400 refereed publications and 10 US patents (3 pending).