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AMARPAL (PAUL) KHANNA Ph.D.
apskhanna@ieee.org
SUMMARY QUALIFICATIONS:
More than 25 years experience in Design Engineering and Design Engineering Management in the field of RF & Microwave
components and sub-assemblies in military, commercial, instrumentation, wireless and high-speed optics markets.
Additional skills include Pathfinding, Marketing and Business Development. Strong knowledge and experience in
microwave design and measurement technology. Industry reputation for contributions to high frequency Signal
Generation Technology.
EXPERIENCE
September 2004 to Present Phase Matrix Inc., San Jose, CA.
Vice President, Components
- Responsible for the Components and Sub-Assemblies Group. Products include Oscillators,
PLOs, Synthesizers, Amplifiers, Frequency Multipliers, Frequency Converters and Custom Microwave & RF Sub-Assemblies
for applications in the Instrumentation, telecomm and Military Markets.
August 2003-Sept. 2004 Celeritek Inc./ Teledyne Santa Clara, CA.
Senior Member Technical Staff.
- Responsible for product development and project management of Microwave & RF hybrid sub-assemblies for
applications in the Military Market.
1999-2003 Wireless Semiconductor Division, Agilent Technologies, San Jose, CA.
R&D Section Manager
- Responsibilities included product definition, development and marketing of high-Speed Clock and Driver Amplifier Modules for OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768 markets.
- Successfully managed development and qualified a number of clock generation modules and oscillators in the high-speed optical communications market at 2.5Gb/s, 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s. Managed customer relationship and worked closely with system design teams at major telecom suppliers.
1998-1999 Wireless Semiconductor Division, Hewlett Packard Santa Clara, CA.
Manager Advanced Development, Wireless Systems:
- Future product strategy and product definition in the area of high speed wireless. Prototype development of 60GHz Radio 100/1000 Mb/s including Gigabit interface between fiber and radio. Developed very high modulation bandwidth oscillator at 15 GHz.
- Actively participated in the national / International standards bodies IEEE802.16 and Hiperaccess BRAN,ETSI for Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
1991–1997 Wireless Infrastructure Division/CMCD, Hewlett Packard Santa Clara, CA
R&D Project Manager (91-94) / R&D Section Manager(94-97):
- Product and Technology Development of RF/Microwave hybrid modules, Power Amplifiers, Radio Transceivers and Front-End Modules for Commercial Communications and Instrumentation market. Worked closely with design teams at major radio manufacturers
Productized industry first Tx and Rx modules with low noise VCO, frequency divider and frequency multipliers, up and down converters for digital radios in 15 to 40 GHz frequency range.
- Participated in business planning, marketing and management of customer relationship.
- Managed 20 - 25 R&D employees.
1985–1991 Avantek (Acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1991) Santa Clara, CA
SMTS / Engineering Manager
- Product & Technology Development of RF/Microwave hybrid products for Commercial, Military and Instrumentation Market. Developed state of the art DROs, VCOs and YTOs in the frequency ranges of 1GHz to 40GHz.
- Project Management and Business Planning
1986 ITU Brazil SaoPaulo, Brazil
United Nations Consultant in Microwave Technology
1982-1985 Loral Advanced technology Labs, Maryland Giga Instrumentation (now part of Advantest) , France
Senior Member Technical Staff
TEACHING
1987 - Present Adjunct Professor Santa Clara University . Santa Clara, CA
(Teaching a graduate course ELEN 726 on RF & Microwave Measurements)
1980-1982 Assistant Professor, University of Limoges Limoges, France
EDUCATION
1977-1981 University of Limoges Limoges, France
Doctorate of Engineering in Microwave and Optical Communications. 1981
(Thesis: Microwave Solid State Dielectric Resonator Oscillators.)
MS in Microwave & Optical Communications. 1978
B.Sc. Electronics & Electrical Communications. Punjab University. Chandigarh, India.
1997-1999 UC Berkeley / UCLA / UCSC
Extension Courses in DSP, Data Communication Systems and Network Engineering.
PUBLICATIONS
- Published more than 50 Articles in National and International Journals (1981 - 2003)
- Contributed Chapters in 4 Books on Microwave Signal Generation (1983 - 2003)
- 5 US and 2 European Patents on Microwave Signal Generation (1980 - 1991)
OTHER
- Co-Chair Technical Program Committee IEEE MTT IMS 2006 Conference, San Francisco June 2006
- Founder High-Speed Communications Alliance
- Chair Technical Coordination Committee MTT-22, Signal Generation and Frequency Conversion, IEEE MTT Society
- Senior Member IEEE
- Participated in Organizing National / International Conferences.
- Local Chapter Chairman IEEE MTT (1992)
- Fluent in French
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