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Mihai Banu is the director of the RF/Analog ICs product line for the Analog Products Division at Agere Systems. Agere is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multiservice networking applications.
In this capacity, Dr. Banu is responsible for advancing the state of the art of RF, analog and mixed-signal ICs, and wireless system architectures. Dr. Banu previously worked with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he became a Member of Technical Staff in 1984 and was appointed Head of the Silicon Circuits Research Department in 1996. His responsibilities at Bell Labs included advanced work in circuit design and silicon technology/device enhancement, and development of a best-in-class SiGe BiCMOS technology.
Dr. Banu received Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in New York, NY, in 1979, 1980 and 1984, respectively. Among his accomplishments are the invention of MOSFET-C continuous-time filters (1987 IEEE Darlington award), contributions to integrated operational amplifier design (1998 Lucent Technologies patent award), contributions to high-speed communication circuits design, novel RF IC architectures for wireless, experimental work in multi-gigahertz wide-band HBT circuits and pioneering work in burst-mode clock recovery circuits. Dr. Banu is an IEEE Fellow, holds several U.S. and international patents and has published many technical papers. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has taught several short courses in international conferences and workshops. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi and has been an editor for IEEE CAS Society publications.
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