Dr. Debabani Choudhury

Future of communication and sensing network is being transformed with the advancement in next generations of wireless with Beyond-5G, beyond-WiFi-8, ICAS, NTN, VR/XR/Metaverse, Digital-Twin and other emerging applications. Higher quality of experiences for connected future with ubiquitous lowest latency and superhigh data rate connectivity services will require innovative wireless technologies and communication hardware combined with AI/ML. Mobile platform integrated RF systems with antenna front ends are common factor for most of the wireless applications. Emerging usage scenarios will need intelligent mobile platforms with ultra-small form-factor, requiring co-design and heterogeneous integration of dis-similar semiconductor device, circuit and antenna technologies, in order to satisfy the desired application-specific performance criteria for the evolving use cases.

This presentation will present the emerging technology trends and will focus on the antenna-integrated RF to mm-wave/THz array integrated frontend opportunities and challenges demanding new technology, design, development and integration. Example architectures to enable
multifunction microsystem platform will be discussed.

Biography:

Debabani Choudhury (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. She has a broad range of expertise in RF, mmWave, and THz devices, circuits, front-end, antennas, arrays, systems, packaging, heterogeneous integration, CAD, EM, HSIO and related platform integration technologies for wireless and wired applications. She was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA, working on terahertz (THz) devices and components for space-based heterodyne receiver applications. At Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL Laboratories), Malibu, CA, USA, and Millitech Corporation, South Deerfield, MA, USA, she developed various RF/mm-wave/THz technologies for space, defense, government, and automotive applications. She worked at Intel Labs, the research division of Intel Corp., USA, where she directed the research and development on various wireless and wired platform integration and RF/mmWave/sub-THz technologies/architectures for next-generation sensor and communication applications. Currently she is the President of SeraTech, LLC in California, USA, working on cutting- edge GHz- to THz- technologies and system ingredients for future communication and sensing applications.

Dr. Choudhury is an IEEE Fellow with 100+ patents/patent applications and numerous publications. She received Intel’s Gordon Moore awards multiple times for excellence in research and also several NASA recognitions. Dr. Choudhury served as Guest Editor for several IEEE journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE. She served as the IEEE 5G-Initiative Committee member and initiated the MTT-S and ComSoc Collaboration for 5G Summits at IEEE IMS17 as Summit Chair. She is currently an elected ADCOM member for MTT-Society and the Chair for multiple MTT-S committees, including Future Directions Committee. She is also member of multiple IEEE TAB WGs.

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