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Excellence at the 2009 ISSCC and
the 2009 IEEE Journal of Solid-States
Circuits Best Paper Award given in
2011; he holds more than 50 patents and has authored or coauthored more than 75 publications.
He was a member of the Bipolar/
BiCMOS Circuits and Technology
Meeting T P C f r om 20 03 to 20 08
and the ISSCC International TPC
f r o m 2 0 0 9 to 2016; h e w a s t h e
Wireline Subcommittee chair from
2012 to 2016 and has served as the
ISSCC Short Course chair from 2017
to the present. He is a Member o f
t he IEEE.

Payam Heydari
Payam Heydari is a
full professor of electrical engineering at
the University of California, Irvine. He is
an IEEE Fellow for his
contribution to silicon mm-wave IC
and an IEEE SSCS DL (2014-2016). He
is a recipient of numerous awards and
recognitions including the 2007 IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 2005 IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award, the 2005 National Science
Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award,
the 2017 School of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Research Award,
the 2014 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from the Orange
County Engineering Council, the
2010 Faculty of the Year Award from
University of California Engineering Student Council, the University

of California 2009 Business Plan
Competition First Place Award and
Best Concept Paper Award both from
the Paul Merage School of Business,
the 2009 School of Engineering Best
Faculty Research Award, the 2005
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award, and the
Best Paper Award at the 2000 IEEE
International Conference on Computer Design.
His research on novel low-power
multipurpose multiantenna RF frontends received the Low-Power Design
Contest Award at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Low-Power
Electronics and Design (ISLPED).
He presented a tutorial at the 2017
ISSCC and an invited distinguished speech at the 2014 IEEE Midwest
Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
He is currently serving on the TPC
of the ISSCC (RF Subcommittee) and
was a guest editor and associate editor for JSSC and IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems-I. He and his
research group have published two
books, one book chapter, and more
than 130 journal and conference
papers. His group demonstrated
the world's first complementar y
metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)
fundamental frequency transceiver operating at 210 GHz, the first
terahertz closed-loop synthesizer
source operating at 300 GHz in silicon, and a cavity-backed circularly
polarized mm-wave fundamental
frequency radiator with highest efficiency and lowest phase-noise on
the record.

Vivienne Sze
Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in the
Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
Department at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research
interests include energy-aware signal
processing algorithms and low-power
circuit and system design for multimedia applications such as machine learning, computer vision, and video coding.
Prior to joining MIT, she was a member
of technical staff in the R&D Center at
Texas Instruments, where she developed algorithms and hardware for the
latest video coding standard H.265/
HEVC. She received the B.A.Sc degree
from the University of Toronto in 2004
and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from
MIT in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
She is a recipient of several awards,
including the Google Faculty Research
Award, the MICRO Top Picks Award,
the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and
the Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral
Thesis Prize.
She currently serves on the TPC of
VLSI Symposium and MICRO and is a
member of the SSCS Women in Circuits committee. Between 2014 and
2016, she was an elected member of
various technical committees within
the IEEE Signal Processing Society;
she also served as a guest editor for
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. She is an
IEEE Senior Member.
-Abira Sengupta

European Chapter Chairs Meeting at ESSCIRC-2017

The Region 8 IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Society (SSCS) Chapter Chairs meeting was held on 13 September 2017
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2017.2769464
Date of publication: 31 January 2018

at the European Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ESSCIRC) in Leuven,
Belgium. This annual event brings
together European Chapter chairs
with the SSCS Administrative Committee leadership to discuss recent

Chapter events and exchange ideas
for future activities.
The meeting was opened by Prof.
Bram Nauta, SSCS president, who
welcomed the participants and highlighted the importance of the local

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