Biography
John Choma, Jr. (S’61-M’64-SM’76-F’91) earned the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1963, 1965, and 1969, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) where he teaches undergraduate courses in electrical circuits and graduate courses in analog electronics. He consults in the areas of wideband analog and high speed integrated circuit design. Prior to joining USC in 1980, he was a Senior Staff Design Engineer in the TRW Microelectronics Center in Redondo Beach, California. While at TRW, he taught as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include wideband analog and high-speed digital integrated circuit design, behavioral analysis of electronic systems, and integrated device modeling. Dr. Choma is the author or co-author of 80 journal and conference papers, the author of a Wiley Interscience text on electrical network theory and a forthcoming Richard D. Irwin text on electronic circuit design, and the co-editor of a forthcoming Butterworth-Heinemann handbook on integrated circuit design. He is the recipient of several teaching awards and is currently one of only five faculty at USC to be named “Teaching Fellow” in the Center for Teaching Excellence.