“Reconfigurable RFICs for NextG and Extreme Environments”
Date/time: Friday, July 24, 2026 (11:00 AM-12:30 PM)
SPEAKER: Dr. Asad Nawaz
Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
ABSTRACT:
Wireless and high-speed electronics must serve a growing range of demands from a single piece of hardware: 6G is opening congested new frequency bands, wired links between chips keep climbing to higher data rates, and electronics for space and other harsh settings must adjust to conditions that shift over time. Circuits that are fixed at design time struggle to cover this range. This talk presents reconfigurable integrated circuits that can be tuned across bands, data rates, and operating conditions. Drawing on prior academic work in reconfigurable radio front ends along with industry experience in
transmitters and clocking circuits, the speaker will outline a research program spanning three directions: circuits for 6G, low jitter clocking for high-speed links, and the two-way pairing of AI and circuit design. Together these directions point toward flexible radio and computing hardware that can be built one circuit block at a time.
BIOGRAPHY:
Asad Nawaz is an RFIC Design Engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, where he designs radio frequency integrated circuits for cellular systems. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where he worked on reconfigurable millimeter wave circuits for wireless and phased array systems. He has authored several IEEE papers and holds multiple U.S. patents. His research interests include reconfigurable circuits for 6G, low jitter clocking for high-speed links, and the pairing of machine learning with integrated circuit design.
LOCATION:
Univ. of Central Florida
HEC-356
Organizers:
Zahid Hasan, Prof. Xun Gong, and Prof. Raj Mittra (407)-450-9334,
zahid.hasan@ucf.edu