Education
Abidi was educated at Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, and gained a Bachelor of Science Later he attended University of California, Berkeley. He gained an Master of Science
Abidi was educated at Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, and gained a Bachelor of Science Later he attended University of California, Berkeley. He gained an Master of Science
He is the Distinguished Chancellor"s Professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a professor of electrical engineering at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. In 2013, he was awarded the Armstrong Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. degree (with first-class honours) in electrical engineering at Imperial College, London, in 1976. degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1981 under the supervision of Robert Meyer. He joined LUMS School of Science and Engineering as its first Dean.
Since 1985, Abidi worked at University of California, Los Angeles, where he is currently a Distinguished Chancellor"s Professor.
He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in 1989. and was recognized as an ISSCC top-ten author Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 1984 to 1990, and was the General Chairman of the Symposium on Very-large-scale integration Circuits in 1992.
He was the Secretary of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
2013 Armstrong Memorial Lecturer, Columbia University An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (1996) Associate Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences (2009).
2013 Armstrong Memorial Lecturer, Columbia University 2013 ISSCC Outstanding Contributor over its 60 years 2012 Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal of Solid-State Circuits (co-winner) 2012 ISSCC Distinguished Technical Paper Award 2009 Third World Academy of Sciences 2008 University of California, Los Angeles HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits"Foreign pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor" 2007 National Academy of Engineering"Foreign contributions to the development of integrated circuits for metal–oxide–semiconductor RF communications" Top 10 contributors to the ISSCC in its 50 year history 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Third Millennium Medal 1998 Design Contest Award at the Design Automation Conference 1997 ISSCC Jack Raper Outstanding Technology Directions Paper Award 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award 1996 Best Paper Award of the 21st European Solid State Circuits Conference 1988 Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Award for Innovative Teaching Postdoctoral Research Associate.
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He has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering, and is a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences. Abidi is a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (National Academy of Engineering).
From 1981 to 1984, he worked for Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff at the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory.
He is one of only a few Pakistani-origin members of the National Academy of Engineering. A member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (National Academy of Engineering) (2007).
