Biography Aaron R. Hawkins Professor Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering 459 Clyde Building Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602

Phone: (801) 422-8693 FAX: (801) 422-0201 hawkins@ee.byu.edu

 

 

Education

1998	University of California, Santa Barbara		Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
1994	California Institute of Technology	CALTECH	B.S. (Honors), Applied Physics

 

Employment Experience

2008 – present

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT

    Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2008 – present

    Director, Integrated Microfabrication Laboratory

  2002 – 2008

    Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

2001 – 2002

Intel Corp.

Calabasas, CA

    Staff Applications Engineer 

• Provided technical support to networking customers for Intel’s products from the optical fiber layer to the framer including TIAs, LIAs, Laser Drivers, CDRs, Mux and Demuxes, and FECs

• Performed systems and component level testing for new products including noise characterization, jitter performance, S-parameter measurements, and sensitivity measurements and predictions

• Set product specifications for next generation devices for SONET and Ethernet applications

 

1998 – 2001

CIENA Corp.

Santa Barbara, CA

    Principle Engineer

• Lead technical effort to bring InGaAs-Silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) to commercial viability at 10 Gbit/s and 2.5 Gbit/s, creating world’s most sensitive optical receivers

• Hired, trained, and supervised a team of engineers and technicians to create and validate component processes, DC and RF testing procedures, package designs, and device reliability tests

• Oversaw and scheduled component production utilizing $2M annual budget

 

1997 – 1998

Terabit Technology Inc.

Santa Barbara, CA

    Vice President of Research and Development

• Co-founded company based on graduate research

• Oversaw $15M corporate acquisition of Terabit by CIENA Corporation

• Built semiconductor cleanroom and procured processing and testing equipment with $2M capital equipment budget

• Fabricated prototype APDs for commercial applications using wafer fusion and standard silicon and III-V processing including implantation, CVD, RIE, RTA, zinc diffusion, SOG application, SEM, and AFM

• Designed and simulated detectors using Mathematica, Supreme, Athena, and Atlas

 

1994-1997

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA

    Graduate Student Researcher

• Reported world record gain-bandwidth-product for optical detector

• Invented technique of InGaAs to silicon wafer fusion 

 

1992 – 1994

California Institute of Technology

CALTECH

Pasadena, CA

    Teaching Assistant

 

1992 – 1993

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM

    Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant