Dr. Ahmad Bahai is the CTO of Texas Instruments and director of TI Corporate Research, Kilby Labs. He was previously CTO of National Semiconductor and director of research labs at National Semiconductor. He is also a consulting professor at Stanford University and an IEEE Fellow. He served as technical manager of the data communication and mixed-signal processing group at Bell Laboratories until 1997 and as professor-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley until 2010. He later cofounded Algorex, an IC and system design company for communication and acoustic applications, which was acquired by National Semiconductor. Dr. Bahai has more than 70 journal and conference publications and 35 patents on systems and circuits. He received his Master of Science degree from Imperial College, University of London, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.
