PhD Graduates David Murphy and Amr Hafez To Receive ISSCC 2012 Jack Kilby Award

Recent PhD graduates David Murphy and Amr Hafez, Prof. Frank Chang, with Prof. Asad Abidi, and collaborators at Broadcom have been selected to receive the ISSCC 2012 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper for the paper "A Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Noise-Cancelling Receiver with a 2dB Noise Figure".  The award will be presented at the ISSCC conference in San Francisco, February 2013.

The paper was the recipient of the Distinguished Technical Paper Award at ISSCC 2012 and was recently featured in the 2011-2012 UCLA EE Annual Report.  Both Dr. Murphy (Sr. Staff Scientist) and Dr. Hafez (Staff Scientist) joined Broadcom full-time upon graduation.  Collaborators at Broadcom are also all UCLA alums (Ahmad Mirzaei (PhD '06) , Mohyee Mikhemar (PhD '09), Hooman Darabi (Ph'D '99).