Abstract

Astonishing progress in Silicon devices and circuits and highly reliable mass manufacturing techniques have prompted unprecedented revolutions in electronics for the last 4 decades to the extent that electronics is growingly permeating numerous aspects of our life. Autonomous vehicles including cars, robots, and drones have immensely benefited from advances in semiconductor innovation. A growing number of applications ranging from industrial to medical and consumer market are adopting autonomous systems. In this talk, the speaker will discuss some of the advances in sensor technology, motor control and mixed signal processing and their impact in the future of autonomous vehicles.

About the speaker

Dr Ahmad Bahai received his MS degree from Imperial College, University of London in 1988 and PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, both in Electrical Engineering. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of technical staff in the wireless communications division of TCSI. Then he joined AT&T Bell Labs as the Technical Manager of Wireless Communication Group in Advanced Communications Technology Labs until 1997 and Professor-In-Residence at the University of California at Berkeley. He later co-founded Algorex, an IC and system design company for communication and acoustic applications which was acquired by National Semiconductor. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Texas Instruments (TI) and the Director of TI Corporate Research, Kilby Labs. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr Bahai co-invented the multi-carrier spread spectrum, which is being used in many modern communication systems, such as 4G and power line communication. He authored the first textbook on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in 1999 and served as the associate editor of IEEE journals for five years. He also served in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) technical steering committee until 2011. He has more than 80 IEEE/ Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) publications and 35 patents on systems and circuits.

The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

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