Asad Abidi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Asad Abidi

Pakistani electrical engineer and scientist

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1956

Place of Birth: Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Asad Abidi

  • Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956) is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer.
  • He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
  • He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology during the late 1980s to early 1990s.
  • As of 2008, the radio transceivers in all wireless networking devices and modern mobile phones are mass-produced as RF CMOS devices. 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 prominent 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.

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