Ali Hajimiri
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Tel: (626) 395-2312
Fax: (626) 395-8952
Email: hajimiri@caltech.edu
Professor Hajimiri's group does research on integrated circuits and their applications in various disciplines. These applications span a wide range from high-speed and RF to low-frequency high-precision circuits. His research group is involved in both the theoretical analysis of the problems in integrated circuits as well as practical implementations of new systems in very large scale integrated circuits.
Ali Hajimiri received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Stanford University in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
He was a Design Engineer with Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, he was with Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the UltraSPARC microprocessor's cache RAM design methodology. During the summer of 1997, he was with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ, where he investigated low-phase-noise integrated oscillators. In 1998, he joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the director of Microelectronics Laboratory. His research interests are high-speed and RF integrated circuits.
Dr. Hajimiri is the author of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (Boston, MA: Springer, 1999) and has authored and coauthored more than one hundred refereed journal and conference technical articles. He holds more than two dozens U.S. and European patents. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He has also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and the Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
Dr. Hajimiri was selected to the top 100 innovators (TR100) list in 2004 and is a Fellow of Okawa Foundation. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He is the recipient of Caltech's Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award as well as Associated Students of Caltech Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. He was the Gold medal winner of the National Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State circuits Best Paper Award of 2004, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award, two times co-recipient of CICC’s best paper awards, and a three times winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is a cofounder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.