Faculty Profile - Farrokh Ayazi

Professor; Director, Georgia Tech Analog Consortium
Microelectronics/Microsystems, and Electronic Design and Applications

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, International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), and Transducers and IEEE Sensors Conference. He is an editor for IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS).

Dr. Ayazi is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Qualtré Inc., a spin-out from his research Laboratory that commercializes bulk-acoustic-wave (BAW) silicon gyroscopes and multi-degrees-of-freedom inertial sensors for consumer electronics and personal navigation systems.

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

Best Student Paper Award at IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS 2010), and IEEE Sensors 2007.
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.

Last revised on April 22, 2011.