About Navid Yazdi

Navid Yazdi is currently a visiting research scientist at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S. degree in 1988 from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, the M.S. degree in 1993 from the University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree in 1999 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in electrical engineering.

From 1998 to 2000 he was a full-time tenure-track faculty member at Arizona State University, where he established a research group focusing on integrated microsystems with several projects funded by NSF, DARPA, and semiconductor industry on MEMS sensors and actuators, and analog/digital VLSI circuitry.

From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of Electronics at Corning IntelliSense Corporation (CISC). He joined CISC after taking a leave from Arizona State University. At CISC he created and managed the control electronics group and focused his effort on precision MEMS interface electronics and mixed-signal control ASICs for optical cross-connect and wavelength management products.

Dr. Yazdi has published over 35 journal articles and refereed conference papers in the past 10 years on MEMS devices and fabrication technologies, mixed-signal VLSI circuits and MEMS interface circuitry, and wireless microsystems. He also holds several US patents on MEMS accelerometers and their manufacturing process, and closed-loop control of MEMS. Dr. Yazdi is a member of Tau Beta Pi. He received the University of Michigan College of Engineering Graduate Student Achievement Award in 1998 for excellence in scholarship, research, and service.