Ramy Rady

Curriculum Vitae

SerDes Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Apple. Ph.D., Texas A&M University.

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Experience

  1. SerDes Transceiver Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

    Apple · Silicon Engineering Group · Cupertino, CA

    • Design next-generation high-speed SerDes IP for Apple silicon SoCs.
    • Own transistor-level design, simulation, and validation of analog front-end (AFE) and digital circuits.
    • Work with PHY, packaging, and system teams to optimize performance and power.
    • Own static timing analysis (STA) signoff using Synopsys NanoTime for custom-digital datapaths.

  2. Research Scientist Intern, CMOS Drivers & Stabilization Loops

    Meta Reality Labs · Washington, USA

    • Designed driver and TIA electronics in 130 nm CMOS to control and stabilize a zonal-illumination photonic chip.
    • Improved AR/VR display efficiency and reduced power consumption.
    • Filed three patent applications: laser driver, MEMS driver, and auto-stabilizer.

  3. Graduate Research Assistant, RF Silicon Photonics

    Texas A&M University · College Station, TX

    • Took mm-wave CMOS and silicon photonic systems from modeling and design through tape-out and characterization.
    • Built automatic bias-control and stabilization loops (TIA, ADC, DAC, microcontroller) running ML-based tuning.
    • Developed an ML algorithm that dynamically adjusts filter pole locations.
    • Wrote five research proposals to funding agencies.

  4. Design Engineering Intern, mm-Wave IC R&D

    Qualcomm · Dallas, TX

    • Designed mm-wave power amplifiers.
    • Built a calculator to estimate PA lifetime (reliability).

  5. R&D Engineer, CMOS ICs for Automotive AR

    Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits · Bavaria, Germany

    • Taped out a 10 GHz transceiver and PLL chip for in-vehicle AR technology.

Education

  1. Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Texas A&M University

    Advisor: Prof. Kamran Entesari. Dissertation: Automatically Tunable Mm-Wave Silicon Photonics Beamformers and Front-Ends for Wideband High Performance Radio Transceivers.

  2. M.Sc., Electronics and Computer Engineering

    Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey

    GPA 4.0/4.0. Thesis: Ultra-Low Power, Low-Voltage Transmitter at ISM Band for Short Range Transceivers.

  3. B.Sc., Electronics and Communications Engineering

    Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Graduated with honors. Graduation project: Smart Dust low-power PLL and receiver at 902 MHz (grade: Excellent).

Honors & service

  • 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

Press

Selected publications

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  1. TMTT

    An mm-Wave CMOS/Si-Photonics Reconfigurable Hybrid-Integrated Heterodyning Software-Defined Radio Receiver

    R. Rady, Y.-L. Luo, C. Madsen, S. Palermo, K. Entesari

    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 2824–2839, May 2024

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  2. OE

    Ultra-Wideband mm-Wave Remote Antenna Unit for Radio-over-Fiber Distributed Antenna Systems in Silicon Photonics

    R. Rady, C. Madsen, S. Palermo, K. Entesari

    Optics Express, vol. 32, no. 15, 25953, Jul 2024

    DOI Open access

  3. JLT

    A 20–43.5-GHz Wideband Tunable Silicon Photonic Receiver Front-End for mm-Wave Channel Selection/Jammer Rejection

    R. Rady, C. Madsen, S. Palermo, K. Entesari

    Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1309–1324, Mar 2023

    DOI

  4. TMTT

    A Power-Efficient 20–35-GHz MZM Driver With Programmable Linearizer for Analog Photonic Links in 28-nm CMOS

    Y.-L. Luo, R. Rady, K. Entesari, S. Palermo

    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1262–1273, Mar 2023

    DOI

  5. RFIC

    A mm-Wave CMOS/Si-Photonics Hybrid-Integrated Software-Defined Radio Receiver Achieving >80-dB Blocker Rejection of <−10 dBm In-Band Blockers

    R. Rady, Y.-L. Luo, C. Madsen, S. Palermo, K. Entesari

    IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), pp. 261–264, Jun 2023

    DOI

  6. SiRF

    Automatic Tuning of Microwave Silicon Photonic Ring Resonators

    R. Rady, C. K. Madsen, S. Palermo, K. Entesari

    IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), Radio & Wireless Week, pp. 55–57, Jan 2023

    DOI

Tools

Circuit design
Cadence Virtuoso (schematic, layout, ADE), Verilog-A/AMS
EM & RF simulation
Ansys HFSS, Sonnet, Keysight ADS, Microwave Office
Programming
Python (incl. ML), C/C++, MATLAB, Arduino
Scripting
Tcl/Tk, Perl