Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio (Professor, F’92) Rm. 318F, WERC, Tel. (979)845-7498 email:sanchez@ece.tamu.edu URL: http://amesp02.tamu.edu/~sanchez	Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio (Professor, F’92) was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He is currently the TI J Kilby Chair Professor and Director of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center at Texas A&M University. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He is co-author of the book Switched Capacitor Circuits (Van Nostrand-Reinhold 1984), and co-editor of the book “ Low Voltage/Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE Press 1999). In November 1995 he was awarded an Honoris Causa Doctorate by the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico. The first honorary degree awarded for Microelectronic Circuit Design contributions. He received the 1995 Guillemin-Cauer for his work on Cellular Networks. He was also the co-recipient of the 1997 Darlington Award for his work on high-frequency filters He received the Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 1999. He received in 2008 the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award. He was the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Representative to the Solid-State Circuits Society (2000-2002). He is a former member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award Committee. His present interests are in the area of RF-Communication circuits and analog and mixed-mode circuit design. He is an IEEE Fellow Member since 1992.
José Silva-Martínez (Associate Professor) Rm. 318D, WERC, Tel. (979)845-7477 e-mail: jsilva@ece.tamu.edu URL: http://amesp02.tamu.edu/~jsilva/	José Silva-Martínez (Associate Professor) was born in Tecamachalco, Puebla, México. He received the M.Sc. degree from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, México, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from the Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1992. From 1981 to 1983, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, INAOE, where he was involved with switched-capacitor circuit design. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, where he remained until 1993; He was a co-founder of the graduate program on Opto-Electronics in 1992. From 1985 to 1986, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Electrical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University. In 1993, he re-joined the Electronics Department, INAOE, and from May 1995 to December 1998, was the Head of the Electronics Department; He was a co-founder of the Ph.D. program on Electronics in 1993. He is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering (Analog and Mixed Signal Center) Texas A&M University, at College Station, where He holds the position of Associate Professor. Dr. Silva-Martínez has served as IEEE CASS Vice President Region-9 (1997 – 1998), and as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems part-II from 1997-1998 and May 2002 till present. He was the main organizer of the 1998 and 1999 International IEEE-CAS Tour in region 9, and Chairman of the International Workshop on Mixed-Mode IC Design and Applications (1997-1999). His current field of research is in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication and biomedical applications.He is the inaugural holder of the TI Professorship-I in Analog Engineering, Texas A&M University. He was a co-recipient of the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award.
Aydin Ilker Karsilayan (Associate Professor) Rm. 318F, WERC,Tel. (979)458-3555 e-mail: karsilay@ece.tamu.edu URL: http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~karsilay	Aydin Ilker Karsilayan (Associate Professor)  received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Ph.D. Degree from Portland State University, Portland, OR, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. In 2000, he joined the faculty of Texas A&M University, where he is currently an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the area of high-frequency analog filters, automatic tuning, mixedmode IC design, and RF communication circuits. He currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I, in the area of Analog Circuits and Filters. Dr. Kars¸ilayan is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Kamran Entesari (Assistant Professor) Rm. 318A, WERC,Tel. (979)845-9586 e-mail: kentesar@ece.tamu.edu URL: http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~kentesar	Kamran Entesari (Assistant Professor) received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1995, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University, Tehran, Iran, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A & M University where his is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests include design of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, related front-end analog electronic circuits and antennas, Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave/millimeter-wave applications, microwave filters and passive components, and active and passive sensors. He has authored six papers in refereed IEEE journals and conferences and is a member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
Sebastian Hoyos (Assistant Professor) Rm. 318G, WERC,Tel. (979)8624253 e-mail: hoyos@ece.tamu.edu URL: www.ece.tamu.edu/People/bios/hoyos.htm	Sebastian Hoyos(Assistant Professor)  was born in Cali, Colombia in 1975. He received the B.S. degree from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Bogota, Colombia in 2000, and the M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees from the University of Delaware, Newark DE, all in electrical engineering. He worked for Lucent Technologies Inc. from 1999 to 2000 as Technical Manager and Sales Engineer for the Andean region in South America. Simultaneously, he was an Adjunct Professor at the PUJ University, where he lectured on microelectronics and control theory. In the Fall of 2000, he enrolled in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Delaware. During his master and Ph.D. studies, he worked under the PMC-Sierra Inc., the Delaware Research Partnership Program, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) in Communications and Networks. In the Fall of 2004, he enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. In the Fall of 2006, he joined Texas A&M University where he is currently an assistant professor. He has carried out industrial consulting with Conexant Systems Inc., Red Bank, NJ. His research interests include communication systems, wireless communications, robust signal processing, and mixed-signal high-speed processing and circuit design.