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Lawrence Williams is Director of Product Management at Ansoft LLC., subsidiary of ANSYS, where he is a trusted member of the senior staff. Since 1994 he has worked at Ansoft to guide technical applications with specific emphasis on the market leading HFSS 3D electromagnetic field solver. He has over 19 years experience in the fields of electromagnetics and communications engineering and has published numerous technical papers on the subject. His recent work has concentrated on building design solutions that leverage electromagnetics for high-speed serial communications, RF integrated circuits, and complex antenna systems.
Prior to Ansoft, Dr. Williams held various senior engineering positions in the Engineering Division of Hughes Aircraft Company, Radar Systems Group, where he was responsible for hardware development of advanced active phased array radar antennas, associated microwave subsystems, and antenna metrology. He earned his Masters, Engineers, and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1989, 1993 and 1995, respectively. His dissertation research with Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii at UCLA focused on a novel planar near-field antenna measurement technique leading to the prestigious Wheeler Award for the best applications paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Williams serves on the Alumni Advisory Board for the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department.
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University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. EE, 1995
Dissertation: The Bi-polar Planar Near-field Technique for Antenna Measurements
Advisor: Yahya Rahmat-Samii.
* Developed new method and measurement facility for planar near-field antenna measurements (IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagat., Feb. 1994)
* Developed Sampling Interpolation in Bi-polar Coordinates—method to recover EM vector fields on a rectangular grid from bi-polar samples.
* Wrote near-field to far-field and back-projection imaging software to process measured data.
University of California, Los Angeles Engineer, 1993
University of California, Los Angeles MSEE, 1989
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA BSEE, 1985
Magna Cum Laude
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Wheeler Prize Application Paper Award 1995
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Winner: DesignCon 2005 Best Paper
L.I. Williams, D. Wu, E. Staggs, and A. Yen, “Ultra-wideband radio design for multi-band OFDM 480 Mb/s Wireless USB,” DesignCon 2005 Symposium Digest, Santa Clara, January 2005.
Finalist: DesignCon 2007 Best Paper
D. Wu, L.I. Williams, and M. Mi, “RFID Radio Circuit Design in CMOS,” DesignCon 2007 Symposium Digest, Santa Clara, January 2007.
United States Patent 1994
Method and Apparatus for Near-field Antenna Measurements Using Bi-polar Geometry (Patent Number 5,365,241)
Hughes Aircraft Radar Systems Group
Team Excellence Award 1989
Superior Performer 1987
Hughes Corporate Fellowship 1986-1994
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UCLA Alumni Advisory Board
§ Invited member of prestigious UCLA Electrical Engineering Alumni Advisory Board to provide critical and supportive advice to assist the department in enhancing its leadership role in education and research. Provide advice to ensure critical ABET accreditation.
Member
§ IEEE Communications, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Antennas and Propagation Societies
XFP Consortium Participant
§ 10Gb/s Small Form Factor Plugable Optical Module MSA. Contributed MSA specification appendix on optimal PCB via design for reliable 10Gb/s transmission.
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