Author: Babak Matinpour

JOY LASKAR, Ph D, is the Joseph M. Pettit Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 200 technical papers and has fifteen patents pending. Professor Laskar has also received numerous awards for his work, including the Army Research Office”s Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation”s CAREER Award, and the IEEE Rappaport Award. He is Director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC). BABAK MATINPOUR, Ph D, is the cofounder and vice president of VT Silicon Inc., a fables wireless start-up developing next generation Ics for 3G mobile phones. Dr. Matinpour has published over twenty IEEE papers and presented several invited talks on Ga As and Si Ge RF ICs. SUDIPTO CHAKRABORTY, Ph D, is a senior research engineer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, where he is involved in analysis, design, and characterization of advanced wired and wireless circuits and systems towards advanced communication technologies using silicon-based processes. Dr. Chakraborty has authored or coauthored over thirty technical articles, presented several invited talks in the area of integrated transceiver design, and has two patents pending.