Keynote Speakers
J. Stevenson Kenney
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(S ’84, M ’85, SM ’01, F ‘08) was born in St. Louis, MO, USA in 1962. He completed his B.S.E.E. (Hons.) in 1985 and M.S.E.E. in 1990, both from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, also at Georgia Tech. In January 2000, Dr. Kenney joined the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently teaching and conducting research in the areas of power amplifier linearization, smart antenna design, and RFIC design. Dr. Kenney also has over 14 years of industrial experience in wireless communications. He has held engineering and management positions at Electromagnetic Sciences, Scientific Atlanta, and Pacific Monolithics, and Spectrian. Dr. Kenney has been an active member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for over 20 years. He served as an officer on the Santa Clara Valley chapter of MTT-S from 1996-2000. Dr. Kenney served three terms on the MTT-S AdCom. He was appointed to the office of Treasurer for 2001-2003, was elected as MTT-S President in 2007. Dr. Kenney served on International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Steering Committees in Atlanta in 1993, San Francisco in 1996, and again in Atlanta in 2008. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers, conference papers, and workshop presentations in the areas of acoustics, microelectronics, microwave design, signal processing, and telecommunications. He has served on the Editorial Board for the Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and the Microwave and Wireless Components Letters since 1997, and served on the IMS Technical Program Committee from 1997-2004. In 2002, Dr. Kenney was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON), and General Co-Chair for RAWCON 2003 and 2004. Dr. Kenney received the 2005 IEEE MTT-S Application Award “for the development of power amplifier linearization techniques and insertion into cellular/wireless systems.” In 2008, Dr. Kenney was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to microwave power amplifier design, characterization, and linearization.”
Joy Laskar
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Dr. Joy Laskar received the B.S. degree (Computer Engineering with Math/Physics Minors, summa cum laude) from Clemson University in 1985. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and 1991 respectively. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1995, Dr. Laskar was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. At Georgia Tech he holds the Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also Founder and Director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, and he heads a research group of 70 members (graduate students, research staff and administration) with a focus on integration of high-frequency mixed-signal electronics for next-generation wireless and wire line systems. Between 1995 and Summer 2008 Dr. Laskar graduated 34 Ph.D. students. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers, several book chapters and three books (with another book in development). He has given numerous invited talks, and he has more than 40 patents issued or pending.
Dr. Laskar’s work has resulted in the formation of two companies. In 1998 he co-founded an advanced WLAN IC Company: RF Solutions, which is now part of Anadgics (Nasdaq: Anad). In 2001 he co-founded a next-generation analog CMOS IC company, Quellan, which is developing collaborative signal-processing solutions for the enterprise, video, storage and wireless markets.
Dr. Laskar’s honors include the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award in 1995, the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award in 1996, NSF Packaging Research Center Faculty of the Year in 1997, and co-recipient of the IEEE Rappaport Award (Best IEEE Electron Devices Society Journal Paper) in 1999. He was faculty advisor for the 2000 IEEE MTT IMS Best Student Paper award, was Georgia Tech Faculty Graduate Student Mentor of the year in 2001, received a 2002 IBM Faculty Award, and the 2003 Clemson University College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award. He was the 2003 recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer award of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2005. For the 2004-2006 term, Dr. Laskar served as an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer and currently is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He received Georgia Tech’s “Outstanding Faculty Research Author” award in 2007 and ECE’s Distinguished Mentor Award in 2008. Dr. Laskar served as General Chairman of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2008.