Full Name
Farzad Inanlou
Job Title
BLM for Automotive Smart Sensors
Company
GlobalFoundries
Speaker Bio
Farzad M.D. Inanlou is CTO for Radar and mmWave Systems at Global Foundries AIM (Automotive, Industrial, and Multi-market) Strategic Business Unit. Farzad joined GF from PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) where he managed a team of engineers and physicists working on mmWave imaging radars, and radar-cross-section-cooperative targets with frequency-selective surfaces, through concept, design, and implementation.

Prior to PARC, Farzad worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he was a radar RF/Microwave/mmWave Design and Technology Development Lead and an Advanced Radar Concepts Principal Investigator. At JPL Farzad led the design of several radar subsystems on multiple projects including the NISAR flagship mission, a Tri-band (W, Ku, Ka) small-sat phased array project, and a 94-GHz planetary landing radar concept, from 2014 to 2018. Farzad has also held positions at Qualcomm and Boston Scientific.

Dr. Inanlou earned his doctoral degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology where his thesis was on the development of innovative RF/mmW transceiver approaches both at the system level and at the MMIC level for advanced low power autonomous applications. While there, he was a President’s Fellow and an NSF Fellow, and also served as a one-year principal lecturer for the “Circuits and Electronics” course. Farzad has published multiple research articles in refereed high-impact journals, presented papers at competitive international conferences and workshops, and is a reviewer for a number of major journals.
Farzad Inanlou