Patrick Roblin was born in Paris, France, in September 1958. He received the Maitrise de Physics degree from the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, in 1980, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. In 1984, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH, as an Assistant Professor and is currently a Professor. His present research interests include the measurement, modeling, design and linearization of non-linear RF devices and circuits. He is the first author of a textbook on High-Speed Heterostructure Devices published by Cambridge University Press and the founder of the Non-Linear RF research lab at OSU. He has developed at OSU two educational RF/microwave laboratories and associated curriculum for training both undergraduate and graduate students.
Charan Langton works for Space Systems Loral where she is manager of communications analysis and simulation for all systems the company builds as well as looking at advanced topics pertinent to wireless satellite communications. Previous to Loral, she was an independent consultant and did analytical work for numerous companies and the Government.
She have a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles and also a M.B.A. from same. Charan is currently on the Industrial Advisory Board of Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
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Thomas J. Brazil received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1973, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering by the National University of Ireland in 1977.
He subsequently worked on microwave sub-system development at Plessey Research (Caswell) UK, before returning to UCD in 1980. He is now holds the Chair of Electronic Engineering at UCD and is also Head of Electronic Engineering. His research interests are in the fields of non-linear modelling and characterisation techniques at the device, circuit and system level within high frequency electronics. He also has interests in non-linear simulation algorithms and several areas of microwave sub-system design and applications. He has published widely in the international scientific literature in these fields.
Professor Brazil is Head of the Microwave Research Group in UCD, and he is one of six elected Professors on the University’s Governing Authority. He is member of IEEE MTT-1 Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Design, and from 1998-2001, was appointed by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society as a Worldwide Distinguished Lecturer in High-Frequency CAD Applied to Wireless Systems. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003 and elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. He has extensive experience as a reviewer, evaluator and policy advisor for European Union funded research programs.