IMS2025 Technical Paper Open Forum
9 October 2024
11:00 AM EDT
Overview:
Presenting a technical paper at IMS2025 is a great way to share your research and the latest results within the RF and microwave community.
The IMS2025 Technical Paper Open Forum provides authors an opportunity to get their questions answered directly by this year's TPC Chairs. From double-blind review compliance to how to get the most out of your figures, we want to help you make your paper the best it can be.
About the IMS2025 TPC Chairs:
Anh-Vu Pham, Professor, University of California at Davis
Anh-Vu Pham received the B.E.E. (Highest Hons.), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1995, 1997, and 1999, respectively. He joined the University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, in 2002, as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2008. From 1999 to 2002, he was an Assistant Professor with Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA. He is currently a Co-Director of the Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center. He is conducting research in RF to THz integrated circuits, antennas, radar and sensors, and energy harvesting systems. His research has been supported by governmental agencies, national laboratories, and companies. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters, and two books and has graduated 29 Ph.D. students. In 1997, he cofounded RF Solutions, Atlanta, GA, USA, a fabless RF IC company. In 2003, RF Solutions was acquired by Anadigics, Warren, NJ, USA. In 2008, he cofounded Planarmag, Inc., West Sacramento, CA, USA, and served as the CTO. In 2010, Planarmag, Inc., was acquired by TE Connectivity, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Anh-Vu received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 and the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2008. He served as the Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 2016 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in San Francisco, and the TPC co-chair of the 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, in Malaysia, an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer from 2010 to 2012, and a Member/Chair of the IMS Technical Program Review Committee on Power Amplifiers. He served as a Guest Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES Special Issues on Broadband Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers in 2020 and the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference in 2017. Anh-Vu is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Tom McKay, Member-Manager, Pacific Avenue Research LLC
Tom is an IC designer, architect and technologist with 40 years’ experience in wireless IC design and innovation. Tom published original theory and results for a 2-18 GHz GaAs distributed amplifier IC in 1986. In the early 90's at Harris- and later, Samsung-Microwave Semiconductor, Tom designed, developed and qualified low noise amplifiers for television and for Globalstar satellite phones. Tom joined VLSI Technology in the late 90's, showing benefits of 180nm CMOS for microwave applications. In 1999, Tom co-founded Zeevo, leading RF development on the first single-chip 180 nm CMOS Bluetooth RF SoC, shipping in volume to tier 1 customers. Zeevo was acquired by Broadcom in 2005. As Principal Engineer with RF Micro Devices (now Qorvo), Tom invented compact, frequency agile RF filters in CMOS with Q’s over 200, with measured demonstration in 2007 at the 90 nm node. Tom drove RFSOI development from a design perspective for cellular front-ends, now widely utilized in smart phone antenna switches and tuners. In 2009 Tom joined MStar (now part of MediaTek), where he patented and developed multi-mode, multi-band cellular CMOS receiver techniques. From 2014 to 2023 Tom led RF pathfinding efforts at Globalfoundries, focused on the synergy between circuit design and 22nm Fully-Depleted SOI to address new market needs through early-phase hardware demonstrators. Tom has held positions of Senior Manager at Samsung Microwave Semiconductor, Staff Scientist at WJ Communications, Sr. Principal Engineer at MStar and Distinguished Technical Staff at Globalfoundries. Tom is Member-Manager at Pacific Avenue Research LLC, providing RF IC design services in CMOS SOI, FDSOI and FinFET technologies. Tom holds an MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is inventor on 27 US patents.