Biography
Shirin Montazeri received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2013 and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA in May 2018. From 2013 to 2018 , she has been a Research Assistant with the Radio Frequency Nanoelectronics Group at University of Massachusetts where she worked on low-power low-noise amplifiers, RF transceivers, device modeling, and MMIC designs for radio astronomy and quantum computing applications. She was a recipient of the 2016 Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT-S) Society Graduate Fellowship award and the 2019 Best PhD Dissertation Award at the University of Massachusetts. In 2018, she joined Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where she was working on the design and implementation of the next generation of 4G/5G transceiver chips. Currently, She is a research scientist at Google Quantum AI team working on the RF/microwave integrated circuits and systems for control and readout of quantum computers.