Online Panel Series

Title: Online Panel: New Innovations in Power Amplifiers

Date: June 25, 2024

Time: 8am PT / 11am ET

Sponsored by: Keysight Technologies, Rohde & Schwarz, WUPATEC and MathWorks

This panel of industry experts will discuss new power amplifier innovations such as AI/ML optimization, high efficiency architectures, new thermal solutions/packaging, new materials/substrates (GaN on Si versus GaN on SiC versus GaN on diamond), and power combing technologies including the latest results in high power and efficiency.
Moderator: Pat Hindle, Media Director, Microwave Journal^®
Panelist: Nizar Messaoudi, 6G Program Manager, Keysight Technologies
Panelist: Markus Lörner, Market Segment Manager, RF & Microwave Components, Rohde & Schwarz
Panelist: Stéphane Dellier, CEO, WUPATEC
Panelist: Giorgia Zucchelli, Product Manager, MathWorks

Panel Participant Bios:

Moderator – Microwave Journal^®
Pat Hindle, Media Director

Pat Hindle is media director for Microwave Journal^® and has been with the magazine for 12 years. He parlayed his process engineering background into a management role in marketing communications for several leading microwave semiconductor manufacturers including MACOM, Raytheon and Skyworks (Alpha Industries), in addition to working at MIT Nanostructures Laboratory manufacturing X-ray diffraction gratings for space research telescopes like Chandra. He has a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Cornell University and MBA from Northeastern University. In his current role as MWJ editorial director, he is responsible for setting MWJ’s editorial direction and developing marketing opportunities for industry clients. He has been the conference manager for EDI CON China and helped launch Signal Integrity™ Journal plus co-hosts the Frequency Matters videos and podcasts.

Keysight Technologies
Nizar Messaoudi, 6G Program Manager

Nizar Messaoudi is the 6G Program Manager at Keysight Technologies. He has more than 15 years of experience in measurement applications and RF test equipment, including vector network analyzers, signal generators, and signal analyzers. Nizar started his career as an RF Application Engineer at Keysight, supporting customers and enabling their success. Before joining Keysight, Nizar taught at the University of Waterloo, training engineers in making RF measurements and managing the undergraduate RF and microwave laboratory. Nizar received his Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Nizar is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His main areas of research are around the linearization of active components, phased array calibration, and OTA metrology.

Rohde & Schwarz

Markus Lörner is a Market Segment Manager at Rohde & Schwarz focusing on the RF and Microwave Component market looking at the test requirements today and tomorrow. Markus has 20 years plus experience in the test & measurement industry. Before moving into the market segment role, Markus worked as a product manager for signal generators and power meters at Rohde & Schwarz where he was looking at different application areas including the mobile industry, positioning, satellite and EW applications. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

WUPATEC
Stéphane Dellier, CEO

Stéphane Dellier is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, passionate about driving innovation and delivering value to customers.

He is the CEO of WUPATEC, a company specialized in providing efficient solutions to the challenges of modern wireless communication systems including 5G, by developing broadband RF power amplifiers coupled with state-of-the-art digital control technology.

Prior to the creation of WUPATEC he co-founded AMCAD Engineering, an innovative company specialized in the development of software and hardware solutions for testing, modeling and simulating radiofrequency electronic circuits.

Stéphane holds a PhD degree in High Frequency Electronics from the University of Limoges, France.

MathWorks
Giorgia Zucchelli, Product Manager


Giorgia Zucchelli is the product manager for RF and mixed-signal at MathWorks. Before moving to this role in 2012, she was an application engineer focusing on signal processing and communications systems and specializing in analog simulation. Before joining MathWorks in 2009, Giorgia worked at NXP Semiconductors on mixed-signal verification methodologies and at Philips Research developing system-level models for innovative communications systems. Giorgia has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in electronics for telecommunications from the University of Bologna. Her thesis dealt with modeling high-frequency RF devices.

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