Officers
Jeff Shi - Chair
Mr. Shi has over 20+ years of semiconductor design & production experiences. He has been working on hardware security integrated circuits at NXP & Broadcom for past 10 years. He was with Mobilepeak, Applied Micro, Synopsys and Motorola, worked on chips for Bluetooth & WIFI, WCDMA, Network processors, optical communications and CPUs. He worked on circuits ranging from analog, RF, mixed signal as well as digital designs. He was a PhD candidate & obtained his MSEE from Iowa State University with emphasis on analog and RF integrated circuits. He graduated with BS & MS Computer Science from Beihang University. He has 3 peer reviewed IEEE publications, and holds 5 granted US patents.
Alvin Loke - Vice-Chair
Alvin Loke has been working on CMOS technology and analog/mixed-signal design since 1998, and an active volunteer with the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) since 2003. He received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering physics with highest honors from the University of B.C., and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford. He was recipient of a Canadian NSERC 1967 Scholarship. Upon graduation, he worked several years in CMOS process integration at HP Labs and Chartered Semiconductor (as an Agilent assignee) before shifting to wireline design and design/technology interface at Agilent, Advanced Micro Devices, and Qualcomm. Alvin is presently a Director in the TSMC San Diego Design Center working on next-generation CMOS analog/mixed-signal design and technology co-optimization. He has authored over 50 publications (including a CICC 2018 Best Paper and many invited presentations) and holds 28 US patents. Alvin is currently the SSCS Webinar Chair and elected AdCom member as well as VLSI Symposia committee member. In the past, he has served as a CICC committee member, SSCS Fort Collins Chapter officer, SSCS Chapters committee member, IEEE JSSC and SSCL guest editor, and SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. The SSCS Fort Collins chapter he led was awarded the SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award in 2005 and Denver Section Chapter of the Year three times. He also received the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Member Service Award in 2010.
Mohamed Abouzied - University Liaison
Mohamed Abouzied was born in Cairo, Egypt. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2008 and 2011, respectively,
and the Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2016, all in electrical engineering. Since 2016, he has been with the RFIC team, Qualcomm,
San Diego, CA, USA, where he is working on future 5G wireless communications. From 2008 to 2011 and 2012 to 2016, he was a Teaching and Research Assistant with the Faculty
of Engineering, Cairo University, and in electrical engineering with Texas A&M University, respectively. In summer 2010, he worked as an Analog IC Design Engineer with Si-Ware
Systems Company, Cairo, where he designed highly integrated CMOS analog interfaces. In summer 2013, he was a Design Intern with the RFIC team, Nvidia, Richardson, TX, USA, where
he designed integrated circuit receivers, local oscillator (LO) distribution circuits in deep submicron technologies. In 2014, he was a Design Intern with the RFIC team, Qualcomm,
where he was involved in the design of highly linear CMOS power ampli?ers. He holds one Egyptian patent and one US patent. His research interests include energy harvesting front ends,
power management ICs, battery charging systems, power ampli?ers, and transceiver systems.