Asad Abidi

Asad Ali Abidi (born 1956) is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a Distinguished professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He was the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology during the late 1980s to early 1990s. As of 2008, the radio transceivers in all wireless networking devices and modern mobile phones are mass-produced as RF CMOS devices.