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Professor Ayazi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. His main research interests are in the areas of Integrated Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on integrated micro and nano-mechanical resonators, inertial sensors, and mixed-signal interface circuits for MEMS sensors. Professor Ayazi has served as an editor for prominent journals and has been active in various technical committees and conferences, including the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference and the IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems conference. Among his accolades include the Outstanding Achievement Research Innovation Award from Georgia Tech in 2018 and being named a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors. He is also the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Qualtré Inc., which commercializes bulk-acoustic-wave silicon gyroscopes and is currently leading StethX Microsystems, a company focused on advanced wearable sensors for cardiopulmonary applications.
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