About me
Research staff member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Alberto Valdes-Garcia received the B.S. in Electronic Systems Engineering degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Campus Toluca, Mexico in 1999 (highest honors as best score from all majors) and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2006.
In 2000 he was a Design Engineer with Motorola, Broadband Communications Sector. From 2001 to 2004 he was a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) research assistant at the Analog & Mixed-Signal Center (AMSC), Texas A&M University. In the summer of 2002 he was with Agere Systems, where he developed a wide tuning range LC VCO for mass storage applications. In the summer 2004 he was with IBM Research, where he worked on the analysis and design of 60GHz SiGe power amplifiers. His doctoral research work covered system-level, ADC and RF circuit design for Bluetoth, Wi-Fi and UWB wireless systems as well as on-chip testing techniques for analog and RF circuits. Since January 2006 he has been working as a Research Staff Member with the Communication Technologies Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His present research work is on silicon integrated millimeter-wave communication systems. He is co-author of the book Test and Diagnosis of Analogue and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits (IET 2007).
From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Valdes-Garcia was the recipient of a scholarship from the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). He is the winner of the 2005 Best Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC).
Last updated 13 Jun 2007