Dr. Larry Larson
Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Larry Larson received a B.S. degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. degree from UCLA. From 1980 to 1996 he was at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., where he directed the development of high-frequency microelectronics in GaAs, InP and Si/SiGe and MEMS technologies. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1996, where he is the inaugural holder of the Communications Industry Chair. Dr. Larson was director of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications from 2001 to 2006. During the 2000-2001 academic year, he was on leave at IBM Research in San Diego, Calif., where he directed the development of RFICs for 3G applications. During the 2004-2005 academic year, he was a visiting professor at TU Delft in the Netherlands. He was recipient of the 1995 Hughes Electronics Sector Patent Award for his work on RF MEMs, co-recipient of the 1996 Lawrence A. Hyland Patent Award of Hughes Electronics, for his work on low-noise millimeterwave HEMTs, and the 1999 IBM Microelectronics Excellence Award for his work in Si/SiGe HBT technology. He has published over 250 papers, co-authored three books, has received 31 U.S. patents, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.