Biography
P. Chris Grossman (S’91) earned the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1983 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Southern California (USC) where he is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation. It is titled “Large Signal Models for Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors.” Since 1987, he has been a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at TRW Electronic Systems Group in Redondo Beach, CA, working on modeling, reliability, failure analysis, and test procedures for HBT’s. His models are the used for most of the HBT integrated circuits designed at TRW. He has also been a researchheaching assistant at USC since 1983, where he has done research on oscillator design principles and magnetic effects in FETs. From 1979- 1983 he was employed by Display Electronics Department of Hughes Aircraft Radar Systems Group, in El Segundo, Ca., where he designed a digital raster generator and CPU board for the F14 weapons control system. His interests include analog, microwave, and high speed digital circuit design, integrated device modeling, and power conversion circuits. Mr. Grossman is a member of Eta Kappa Nu.