Payam Heydari

Payam Heydari received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (honors) in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 2001. He is currently the Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor and the University Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

During the summer of 1997, he was with Nokia Bell-labs where he worked on noise analysis in high-speed CMOS integrated circuits. He worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center on gradient-based optimization and sensitivity analysis of custom analog/RF ICs during the summer of 1998. His research covers the design of terahertz/millimeter-wave/radio-frequency and analog integrated circuits. He is the (co)-author of two books, three book chapters and 200 journal and conference papers. He has given the keynote speech to IEEE GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on Millimeter Wave Imaging and Communications, served as an invited distinguished speaker to the 2014 IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems and gave a tutorial at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Heydari served as the distinguished lecturer of both the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) (2014-2016) and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) (2019-2022).

Heydari is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a fellow of IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, and the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Educator Award, the 2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Innovative Education Award, and Best Invited Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. He was selected as the inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellow by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Beall Applied Innovation. He was the recipient of the 2016-2017 UCI School of Engineering Mid-Career Excellence in Research, the 2014 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from Orange County Engineering Council, the 2009 Business Plan Competition first place prize award and Best Concept Paper Award both from Paul Merage School of Business at UCI, the 2010 Faculty of the Year Award from UCI’s Engineering Student Council (ECS), the 2009 School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award, the 2007 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, the 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the 2005 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2000 IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), and the 2001 Technical Excellence Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH). He was recognized as the 2004 Outstanding Faculty in the EECS Department of the UCI. His research on novel low-power multi-purpose multi-antenna RF front-ends received the Low-Power Design Contest Award at the 2008 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). The Office of Technology Alliances at UCI has named Heydari one of 10 outstanding innovators at the university.

Heydari has been an associate editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L). He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and the 2021 International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2021). Heydari is currently a member of AdCom for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. Formerly, he was a member of the International Technical Program Committee of the ISSCC (2014-2019). He was the guest editor of IEEE JSSC, and associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – I, and served on the Technical Program Committees of the Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS), Int’l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), IEEE Design and Test in Europe (DATE) and Int’l Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). Heydari is the director of the Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Labs.