Hamid R. Rategh hamid@smirc.stanford.edu Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Patents: U.S. Patent,7,102,444 “Method and Apparatus for compensating and improving efficiency in a variable power amplifier”. U.S. Patent 6,760,900, “Integrated Circuits With Scalable Design”. U.S. Patent 6,803,824, “Dynamic Matching in Cascode Circuits”. U.S. Patent 6,856,004, “Compact Layout For A Semiconductor Device”.   U.S. Patent 7,009,454, “Method and apparatus for optimization of amplifier with adjustable output range”. U.S. Patent 7,019,508, “Temperature compensated bias network”. U.S. Patent 7,173,406, “Method and apparatus for gain control”. U.S. Patent, “Planar Transformer”, Serial No. 10/941,335. Publications BOOK: Hamid R. Rategh, Thomas H. Lee, “Multi-GHz Frequency Synthesis & Division: Frequency Synthesizer Design for 5GHz Wireless LAN Systems”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Journals and Conferences: · S. Verma, H. Rategh, and T. Lee, "A Unified Model for Injection-Locked Frequency Dividers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, No. 6, pp 1015-1027, June 2003  T.H. Lee, H. Samavati, H. R. Rategh, “5-GHz CMOS Wireless LANs”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, V. 50 pp. 268-280 Jan 2002 H. Rategh, H. Samavati and T. Lee, "A CMOS Frequency Synthesizer with an Injection-Locked Frequency Divider for a 5GHz Wireless LAN Receiver," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35, pp 780-787, May 2000.  H. Samavati, H. Rategh, and T. Lee, "A 5GHz CMOS Wireless-LAN Receiver Front-End," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35, pp 765-772, May 2000.  H. Rategh, H. Samavati, and T. Lee, "A 5GHz, 32mW CMOS frequency synthesizer with an injection locked frequency divider," Symp. VLSI Circuits Dig. Tech. Papers, pp 113-116, June 1999. (Slides) H. Samavati, H. Rategh, and T. Lee, "A 12.4mW CMOS front-end for a 5GHz wireless-LAN receiver," Symp. VLSI Circuits Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 87-90, June 1999. (Slides) H. Rategh, H. Samavati, and T. Lee, "A 5GHz, 1mW CMOS voltage controlled differential injection locked frequency divider," Proc. CICC, May 1999. (Slides) H. Rategh and T. Lee, "Superharmonic Injection-Locked Frequency Dividers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 34, No. 6, pp 813-821, June 1999. H. Rategh and T. Lee, "Superharmonic Injection-Locked Oscillators as Low Power Frequency Dividers," Symp. VLSI Circuits Dig. Tech. Papers, pp 132-135, June 1998. (Slides) D. Shaeffer, A. Shahani, S. Mohan, H. Samavati, H. Rategh, M. Hershenson, M. Xu, C. Yue, D. Eddleman, and T. Lee, "A 115-mW, 0.5-mm CMOS GPS receiver with wide dynamic-range active filters," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, pp. 2219-2231, Dec. 1998. A. Shahani, D. Shaeffer, S. Mohan, H. Samavati, H. Rategh, M. Hershenson, M. Xu, C. Yue, D. Eddleman, and T. Lee, "Low-power diverderless frequency synthesis using aperture phase detection," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, pp. 2232-2239, Dec. 1998. D. Shaeffer, A. Shahani, S. Mohan, H. Samavati, H. Rategh, M. Hershenson, M. Xu, C. Yue, D. Eddleman, and T. Lee, "A 115mW CMOS GPS receiver," International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest, pp. 122-123, 1998. (Slides) H. Rategh and H. J. Chizeck, "Interactions of Costimulated Muscle in Paraplegics," IEEE EMBS Conference Digest, vol. 1, pp 439-440, 1996. H. Rategh, "Interaction between Isometrically Costimulated Muscles," M.S. Thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Aug. 1996.