Behzad Razavi received the BSEE degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1985 and the   MSEE and PhDEE degrees from Stanford University in 1988 and 1992, respectively.  He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories until 1996. Since 1996, he has been  Associate Professor and subsequently Professor of electrical engineering at University of California,  Los Angeles. His current research includes wireless transceivers, frequency synthesizers, phase-  locking and clock recovery for high-speed data communications, and data converters.

Professor Razavi was an Adjunct Professor at Princeton University from 1992 to 1994, and at  Stanford University in 1995. He served on the Technical Program Committees of the International  Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 1993 to 2002 and VLSI Circuits Symposium from  1998 to 2002. He has also served as Guest Editor and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of  Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and International Journal of High  Speed Electronics.

Professor Razavi received the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 1994  ISSCC,  the best paper award at the 1994 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, the best  panel award at the 1995 and 1997 ISSCC, the TRW Innovative Teaching Award in 1997, the  best paper award at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in 1998, and McGraw-Hill First Edition of the Year Award in 2001. He was the co-recipient of both the Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award and the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 2001 ISSCC. He received the Lockheed Martin Excellence in  Teaching Award in 2006, the UCLA Faculty Senate Teaching Award in 2007, and the CICC Best Invited Paper Award in 2009. He was also  recognized as one of the top 10 authors in the 50-year history of ISSCC.

Professor Razavi has served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and is a Fellow of IEEE. He received the 2012 IEEE Donald Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. .

Professor Razavi is the author of    Principles of Data Conversion System Design (IEEE Press, 1995), RF Microelectronics    (Prentice Hall, 1998, 2012) (translated to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), Design of Analog CMOS Integrated  Circuits (McGraw-Hill, 2001) (translated to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean),  Design of Integrated  Circuits for Optical Communications (McGraw-Hill, 2003), and Fundamentals of    Microelectronics (Wiley 2006) (translated to Korean and Portuguese), and the editor of Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops and Clock  Recovery Circuits (IEEE Press, 1996), and Phase-Locking in High-Performance Systems    (IEEE Press, 2003).