Payam Heydari

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margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p style="line-height: 120%; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p style="line-height: 120%; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="27" height="182" valign="top"></td> <td width="178" height="182" valign="top"><font size="1""><br> [<a href="index.html" target="_top">Frame</a>|Non-Frame]</font><p><font size="1">Designed by <i><a href="mailto:payam@uci.edu">Payam Heydari</a></i><br> Last Updated on Wed Feb 24 09:35:09 AM 2010 </font></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="462" valign="top" height="613"><div align="right"><table border="0" width="100" height="624" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="97"><blockquote> <p align="center"> <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" style="font-size: 55pt; font-weight:700" color="#CC00CC"> Payam Heydari<br> </font> <br>  </p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p>  </p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype">Payam Heydari received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the <a HREF="http://www.usc.edu/"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">University of Southern California</font></span></a> in 2001. He is currently an Associate Professor of <a href="http://www.ece.uci.edu"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">Electrical Engineering</font></span></a> and the EECS Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs at the <a href="http://www.uci.edu"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">University of California, Irvine</font></span></a>.   </font> </b> </p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype"> During the summer of 1997, he was with <a href="http://www.bell-labs.com/"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">Bell-labs, Lucent Technologies</font></span></a> where he worked on noise analysis in high-speed CMOS integrated circuits. He worked at <a href="http://www.watson.ibm.com/"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font></span></a> on gradient-based optimization and sensitivity analysis of custom ICs during the summer of 1998.   </font> </b> </p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype">Dr. Heydari is the co-recipient of the </b> <a href="http://www.eng.uci.edu/news/2009/6/engineering-nabs-top-honors-2009-business-plan-competition-paul-merage-school-business" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight:700"> <font color="#000099">2009 Business Plan Competition First Place Prize Award</font></a><b> and <a href="http://www.eng.uci.edu/news/2009/6/engineering-nabs-top-honors-2009-business-plan-competition-paul-merage-school-business" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000080">Best Concept Paper Award</font></a> both from Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine. He is the recipient of the 2010 Faculty of the Year Award from UC-Irvine's Engineering Student Council (ECS), the 2<a href="http://www.eng.uci.edu/news/2009/7/outstanding-engineering-professors-honored-fariborz-maseeh-best-research-and-teaching-aw" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">009 School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award</font></a><span style="background-position: 0% 0%">, </span> the <a href="http://calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1101"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">2007 <i>IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award</i></font></span></a>, the <a href="http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/icss/awards-darlington.html"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">2005 <i>IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award</i></font></span></a>, the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262&org=ENG"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">2005 <i>National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award</i></font></span></a>, the <a href="http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=587"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">2005 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award</font></span></a>, the Best Paper Award at the <a href="http://www.iccd-conference.org" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">2000 <span style="font-style:italic">IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)</span></font></a>, and the 2001 Technical Excellence Award from the <a href="http://www.apsih.org/ceremony_2001_sponsors_apsih.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH)</font></span></a>. He was recognized as the 2004 Outstanding Faculty in the EECS Department of the University of California, Irvine. His research on novel low-power multi-purpose multi-antenna RF front-ends received the Low-Power Design Contest Award at the <a href="http://www.islped.org"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">2008 </font></span> <font color="#000099"> <span style="text-decoration: none; font-style:italic"> IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)</span></font></a><font color="#000099">.</font></b></font></p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype">Dr. Heydari is the Guest Editor of <span style="font-variant: small-caps">IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits</span>. He currently serves on the Technical Program Committees of </font></b><font face="Arial"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <a href="http://www.csics.org" style="text-decoration: none"><i><b> <font color="#000080">Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium</font></b></i>,</a></span></font><b><font face="Palatino Linotype"> <a href="http://www.ieee-cicc.org"> <span style="text-decoration: none; font-style:italic"><font color="#000099">Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)</font></span></a><span style=""><font color="#000099"> </font>and</span><font color="#000099"> </font> <a href="http://www.islped.org"> <span style="text-decoration: none; font-style:italic"> <font color="#000099">ISLPED</font></span></a>. He served as the Associate Editor of <span style="font-variant: small-caps">IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I</span> from 2006 to 2008. He was the Local Arrangement Chair of the 2004-2005 ISLPED, and the Student Design Contest Judge for the <a href="http://www.dac.com"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">2003 <i>DAC/ISSCC Design Contest Award</i></font></span></a>. He served on the Technical Program Committees of and<i> <a href="http://www.isqed.org"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000099">Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)</font></span></a></i>,<font color="#000099"><i> </i> </font><a href="http://www.date-conference.com"> <span style="text-decoration: none; font-style:italic"> <font color="#000099">IEEE Design and Test in Europe (DATE)</font></span></a> and <a href="http://www.ispd.cc/"> <span style="text-decoration: none; font-style:italic"> <font color="#000099">International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)</font></span></a>. He is the director of the <a href="http://ncic.eng.uci.edu"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Lab</font></span></a>.</font></b></p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype">His research interests include design of ulta-high frequency analog and RF ICs, and high frequency on-chip interconnect design for high-speed ICs. He has published papers in premier conferences on integrated circuit design including <a href="http://www.isscc.org"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">ISSCC</font></span></a>, <a href="http://www.ieee-cicc.org" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">CICC</font></a>, RFIC Symposium, DAC, ICCAD. Results of the research in the NCIC Lab have appeared in more than 75 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.</font></b></p> <p><b><font face="Palatino Linotype">He is a Senior Member of the <a HREF="http://www.ieee.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000099">IEEE</font></span></a>. </font> </b> </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.acm.org" target="_blank"><img src="acmlogo.gif" width="92" height="85" alt="acm_logo.gif (2211 bytes)" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.ieee.org" target="_blank"><img src="ieee.gif" width="132" height="91" alt="small_ieee.gif (1988 bytes)" border="0"></a></p> <p align="left">  </p> <p align="left">  </p> <PRE></PRE> <p align="left">  </p> <PRE></PRE> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p> </p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> </body>