Ali Hajimiri was born in Mashhad-Iran in 1972. He receivedthe Bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1994 from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran. and the Master, and PH.D. (Philosophy Doctoral Degrees) in electrical engineering from Stanford University, CA, in 1996 and 1998 (26 years old), respectively.

Ranking:

• Gold medal winner of the International Physics Olympiad Competition.
• Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands.
• Three times winner of the IBM faculty partnership award.
• National Science Foundation CAREER award.
• Cofounder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.
• Patent and design of World’s first Radar On Chip.
• Guest Editorial of Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
• top 100 innovators (TR100) list in 2004.

Education:

• 1994 at age 22 – B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology Tehran-Iran.
• 1996 at age 24 – M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
• 1998 at age 26 – Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
• 2000 at age 28 – Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology.

Ali Hajimiri was born in Mashhad-Iran in 1972. He receivedthe Bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1994 from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran. and the Master, and PH.D. (Philosophy Doctoral Degrees) in electrical engineering from Stanford University, CA, in 1996 and 1998 (26 years old), respectively.

Ali Hajimiri is Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Prof. 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. Prof. Hajimiri 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 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.

Ali Hajimiri is co-founder and the chairman of Axiom Microdevices Distinguished Technical Advisory Council.  Hajimiri is a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, where his research interests are focused on high-speed and RF integrated circuits.

Prior to co-founding Axiom Microdevices Inc., Prof. Hajimiri held technical positions at Philips Semiconductors as Design Engineer, 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  and Lucent Technologies. Prof. Hajimiri is the author of a best-selling book entitled “The Design of Low Noise Oscillators,” published by Kluwer.

Prof. Hajimiri was the Gold medal winner of International Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 1998 Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award and the winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is also a cofounder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.