[UCI-Calit2] The Story of Broadcom-How a UCLA Professor Became a Successful Entrepreneur: tonight

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Thu Mar 7 08:54:27 PST 2013


The Story of Broadcom - How a UCLA Professor Became a Successful
Entrepreneur


Henry Samueli, Ph.D., co-founder and chief technical officer, Broadcom
Corporation

Time:                 5 p.m.

Date:                  Thursday, March 7, 2013

Location:            McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium 

 

Dr. Henry Samueli is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and serves as
chairman of the board and chief technical officer (CTO). In this role,
he is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom's research and
development activities as well as helping to lead corporate-wide
engineering development strategies.

Samueli has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of
communications systems engineering and digital signal processing. Since
co-founding Broadcom, he has also served as chairman and co-chairman of
the board and vice president of research and development.

Since 1985, Samueli has been a professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where
he has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications
circuits and digital signal processing, and he has published more than
100 technical papers in these areas. He has been on a leave of absence
from UCLA since 1995. He is also a distinguished adjunct professor in
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC
Irvine. Samueli was the chief scientist and one of the founders of
PairGain Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer
in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry, and he consulted for
PairGain from 1988 to 1994. From 1980 until 1985, he served in a variety
of engineering management positions in the Electronics and Technology
Division of TRW, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of
military broadband communications systems.

Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
UCLA. He is a named inventor in 70 U.S. patents. In June 2012 he was
awarded the Marconi Society Prize and Fellowship and in December 2011
the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) named him the winner of the Dr.
Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and a member of the National Academy
of Engineering (NAE).

 

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