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Analog and integrated circuits

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Ali Hajimiri

Ali Hajimiri, born in Mashad, Iran, in 1972, is the Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, known for a general theory of phase noise in oscillators.

Amar Bose

Amar Gopal Bose (1929–2013) was an American electrical engineer and longtime MIT professor who founded Bose Corporation in 1964, building it on psychoacoustic research into speakers and headphones.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Anantha Chandrakasan is an Indian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for low-power CMOS design and energy harvesting, who became MIT's provost in 2025 after serving as dean of engineering.

Asad Abidi

Asad Abidi is a Distinguished Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering at UCLA whose group originated CMOS radio technology in the mid-1990s, enabling single-chip radios in handheld wireless devices.

Barrie Gilbert

Barrie Gilbert (1937–2020) was an English-born analog integrated-circuit engineer who worked at Tektronix and Analog Devices and created the Gilbert cell mixer and the translinear principle.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi (بهزاد رضوی) is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA known for pioneering high-speed CMOS communication circuit design and for widely used graduate textbooks on analog, RF, and data-converter integrated-circuit design.

Bram Nauta

Bram Nauta (born 1964) is a Dutch electrical engineer at the University of Twente, known for the Nauta circuit and the 2023 NWO Stevin Prize.

Donhee Ham

Donhee Ham (함돈희) is a Korean-born electrical engineer and Harvard's Armstrong Professor since 2002, known for chip-scale nuclear magnetic resonance and DNA synthesis on silicon chips.

Edward Lawry Norton

Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories known for Norton's theorem, which he stated in a 1926 internal memorandum and never published.

Edwin C. Kan

Edwin C. Kan, also known as Edwin Chihchuan Kan, is an American electrical engineer and Cornell professor who won a PECASE award in 2000 and studies contactless RF biosensing.

Gabor C. Temes

Gabor C. Temes is a Hungarian-born electrical engineer, professor at Oregon State University, known for pioneering work on switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data conversion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Gert Cauwenberghs

Gert Cauwenberghs is a Belgian-trained engineer and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego who pioneered energy-efficient neuromorphic chips emulating the brain and co-founded the EEG company Cognionics.

Hoi‐Jun Yoo

Hoi-Jun Yoo (유회준) is a South Korean electrical engineer and KAIST professor since 1998 who designs low-power AI and wearable healthcare chips, including the UNPU accelerator.

James H. Mulligan Jr.

James H. Mulligan Jr. was an American electrical engineer, chairman of electrical engineering at New York University from 1952 to 1968 and president of the IEEE in 1971.

Joel L. Dawson

Joel L. Dawson is an electrical engineer who works on radio-frequency integrated circuits for wireless and implanted medical devices, and an MIT associate professor who received a PECASE award.

John Milton Miller

John Milton Miller was an American electrical engineer and physicist who worked at the Bureau of Standards and Naval Research Laboratory, reported the Miller effect in 1919, and held over 20 radio patents.

Léon Charles Thévenin

Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who published Thévenin's theorem in 1883, letting a linear circuit be replaced by a voltage source and resistance.

Mac Van Valkenburg

Mac Van Valkenburg was an American electrical engineer and University of Illinois professor whose textbooks on circuit theory shaped how the subject was taught worldwide.

Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中)

Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中) is a Taiwanese-born electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for commercializing the HBT.

Mehdi Hatamian

Mehdi Hatamian is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for integrated circuits for video and communications.

Paul R. Gray

Paul R. Gray is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for analog integrated circuit design and the standard textbook with Robert G. Meyer.

Robert W. Adams

Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Steven Sample

Steven Sample was an American electrical engineer whose touch-panel appliance controls appeared in over 300 million home appliances, and the tenth president of USC from 1991 to 2010.

Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American electrical engineer who developed the Differential Analyzer, the first modern analog computer, and directed US scientific research during World War II.