Dr. Joy Laskar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: October 15, 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:00pm (refreshment starts at 6:15pm)
Location: ECEC 202, NJIT

About the Presenter:

Dr. Joy Laskar received the B.S. degree (Computer Engineering with Math/Physics Minors, summa cum laude) from Clemson University in 1985.  He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and 1991 respectively.  Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1995, Dr. Laskar was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

At Georgia Tech he holds the Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is also Founder and Director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, and he heads a research group of 70 members (graduate students, research staff and administration) with a focus on integration of high-frequency mixed-signal electronics for next-generation wireless and wire line systems.  Between 1995 and Spring 2008 Dr. Laskar graduated 34 Ph.D. students.  He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers, several book chapters and three books (with another book in development).  He has given numerous invited talks, and he has more than 40 patents issued or pending.

Dr. Laskar’s work has resulted in the formation of two companies.  In 1998 he co-founded an advanced WLAN IC Company: RF Solutions, which is now part of Anadigics (Nasdaq: Anad).  In 2001 he co-founded a next-generation analog CMOS IC company, Quellan, which is developing collaborative signal-processing solutions for the enterprise, video, storage and wireless markets.

Dr. Laskar’s honors include the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award in 1995, the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award in 1996, NSF Packaging Research Center Faculty of the Year in 1997, and co-recipient of the IEEE Rappaport Award (Best IEEE Electron Devices Society Journal Paper) in 1999.  He was faculty advisor for the 2000 IEEE MTT IMS Best Student Paper award, was Georgia Tech Faculty Graduate Student Mentor of the year in 2001, received a 2002 IBM Faculty Award, and the 2003 Clemson University College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.  He was the 2003 recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer award of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2005.  For the 2004-2006 term, Dr. Laskar served as an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer and currently is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer.  He received Georgia Tech’s “Outstanding Faculty Research Author” award in 2007 and ECE’s Distinguished Mentor Award in 2008.  Dr. Laskar served as General Chairman of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2008.

About the Talk:

The development of millimeter waves radios at the same cost structure of consumer electronic radios operating in C-Band opens a new field of innovation for systems designers.  The convergence of FR4 based Modules, CMOS MMIC, Signal Processing and high efficiency PHY-MAC technologies will enable a new generation of low cost high performances millimeter-wave systems.  The feasibility of ultra high-speed wireless transmission beyond 10Gbps has been demonstrated on a low power low cost platform.  Power budgets well below the one hundred pico-joules/bit range have been achieved.  One may expect that 100Gbps serial transmission with a femto-joule/bit power budget can be developed in the near future.  These advances will enable a variety of volume millimeter-wave CMOS applications including: peer-to-peer ultra fast synchronization and adaptive WPAN, automotive radar, out-door point-to-point/point-to-multi-point links, portable radar, security, sensing and imaging and medical applications

All Welcome! You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.

For more information contact  Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra@njit.edu). Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.

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Note: All MS thesis defense and Ph.D. dissertation (Proposal) defense are counted towards ECE791.