Hasan Sharifi

HASAN SHARIFI (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in the areas of microelectronics and nanotechnology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, in 1994, 1997, and 2007, respectively. He is currently a Division Director for Sensing and Communication Systems, HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA, USA.. His research interests include design, fabrication, and integration of RF/millimeter wave components and subsystems for next-generation phased-array radar and communication systems. Before joining HRL, he was a Research Staff Member with Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, from 2005 to 2009, where he worked on CMOS-based RF integrated circuits and advanced heterogeneous integration and packaging. He has authored or coauthored more than 85 journal and refereed conference papers and holds more than 45 issued patents. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including special and extraordinary merit awards from Purdue University and HRL Labs. He was on the Technical Program Committee and Editor of the IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems Conference. He is a member of Microwave Theory and Technology and Advanced Packaging societies.