Dr. Farrokh Ayazi is
an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology He 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 faculty
of Georgia Tech in December 1999. Prof. Ayazi's current research
interests are in the areas of low and high
frequency micro and nano electromechanical resonators, RF MEMS, VLSI analog
integrated circuits, MEMS inertial sensors, and microfabrication
technologies.
Prof. Ayazi is a 2004 recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the 2004
Richard M. Bass
Outstanding Teacher Award (determined by the vote of the ECE senior
class), and the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Cutting Edge
Research Award for 2001-2002. He
received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of
Michigan for 1998-1999. 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.
