Ramy Rady, Ph.D.
SerDes Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer · Apple, Silicon Engineering Group
I design analog/mixed-signal circuits for high-speed SerDes transceivers in Apple's Silicon Engineering Group, where I work on transistor-level design, simulation, and lab validation of analog front-ends for Apple silicon.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2024, advised by Prof. Kamran Entesari and working closely with Prof. Samuel Palermo and Prof. Christi Madsen. My dissertation developed automatically tunable mm-wave silicon photonic beamformers and receiver front-ends, combining CMOS electronics with silicon photonic filters to build wideband, reconfigurable radios. Before that I interned at Meta Reality Labs and Qualcomm, and designed CMOS transceiver ICs at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.
Interests
- High-speed SerDes analog front-ends
- Microwave & RF silicon photonics
- mm-wave CMOS / Si-photonics co-design
- Automatic tuning & calibration loops
- Radio-over-fiber links
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Ramy Rady, Ph.D. — SerDes analog/mixed-signal design, Apple Silicon Engineering Group
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mm-wave CMOS + silicon photonics, automatic tuning loops, radio-over-fiber links
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2024 Texas A&M University — automatically tunable mm-wave silicon photonic front-ends
News✎Edit
Invited feature in IEEE Microwave Magazine on microwave silicon photonic drivers and Mach–Zehnder modulators for radio-over-fiber links. Paper
Preprint on gigahertz directional light modulation with electro-optic metasurfaces posted to arXiv. arXiv
Ultra-wideband mm-wave remote antenna unit for radio-over-fiber systems published in Optics Express. Paper
Joined Apple's Silicon Engineering Group as a SerDes analog/mixed-signal design engineer.
Hybrid-integrated heterodyning software-defined radio receiver published in IEEE TMTT. Paper
Completed my Ph.D. at Texas A&M University.
Received the ISSCC 2024 Student Travel Grant.
Presented a CMOS/Si-photonics receiver with >80 dB blocker rejection at IEEE RFIC 2023, and was a Three-Minute Thesis finalist. Paper
Started a research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs on CMOS drivers and stabilization loops.
Best Student Paper Award finalist at IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW) 2023.
My 25–40 GHz silicon photonic receiver was featured by Texas A&M Engineering and KBTX.
Research✎Edit
All research →Selected publications✎Edit
All 20 publications →111 citationsh-index 7Google Scholar, Sept 2026
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TMTT
An mm-Wave CMOS/Si-Photonics Reconfigurable Hybrid-Integrated Heterodyning Software-Defined Radio Receiver
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 2824–2839, May 2024
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Ultra-Wideband mm-Wave Remote Antenna Unit for Radio-over-Fiber Distributed Antenna Systems in Silicon Photonics
Optics Express, vol. 32, no. 15, 25953, Jul 2024
DOI Open access
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JLT
A 20–43.5-GHz Wideband Tunable Silicon Photonic Receiver Front-End for mm-Wave Channel Selection/Jammer Rejection
Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1309–1324, Mar 2023
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TMTT
A Power-Efficient 20–35-GHz MZM Driver With Programmable Linearizer for Analog Photonic Links in 28-nm CMOS
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1262–1273, Mar 2023
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RFIC
A mm-Wave CMOS/Si-Photonics Hybrid-Integrated Software-Defined Radio Receiver Achieving >80-dB Blocker Rejection of <−10 dBm In-Band Blockers
IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), pp. 261–264, Jun 2023
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SiRF
Automatic Tuning of Microwave Silicon Photonic Ring Resonators
IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), Radio & Wireless Week, pp. 55–57, Jan 2023
Honors✎Edit
ISSCC Student Travel Grant
Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW)
Three-Minute Thesis Finalist, IEEE RFIC Symposium
Graduate Research Scholarship and Quality Graduate Student Award, Texas A&M
Graduate Assistant Lecturer teaching fellowship, Texas A&M
IEEE MTT-S Student Ambassador
Contact✎Edit
The fastest way to reach me is email: engramyrady@gmail.com. I'm happy to talk about SerDes and analog front-ends, RF/microwave photonics, and mm-wave silicon photonic systems.