Faculty Profile - Farrokh Ayazi

Associate Professor
Electronic Design and Applications, and Microelectronics/Microsystems

Phone: 404.894.9496
Fax: 404.385.6650
Office: TSRB 448

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~ayazi/

Biography

Professor Ayazi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

He joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. His main research focus has been in the area of Integrated MEMS and Microsystems Technology. He has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) conference, and IEEE Sensors conference. His research is supported by DARPA, NSF, NASA and Industry.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

Integrated Micro & Nano Electromechanical Resonators
RF MEMS
VLSI Analog Integrated Circuits
MEMS Inertial Sensors (Integrated Gyroscopes and Accelerometers)
Micro and nanofabrication technologies

Distinctions

2005 GOMACTech-04 Meritorius Paper Award
2004 NSF CAREER Award
2004 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Teacher Award (as determined by the vote of the ECE senior class).
2001-2002 Georgia Tech College of Engineering Cutting Edge Research Award
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan in 1998-99.
Senior Member, IEEE

Last revised on July 25, 2006.