Farrokh Ayazi

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Farrokh Ayazi is a professor, the director of the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium and the Ken Byers Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology [1] in Atlanta. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 [2] for contributions to micro-electro-mechanical resonators and resonant gyroscopes.

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Ayazi is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Qualtré Inc.

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  1. 1 2 Farrokh Ayazi | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
  2. "Farrokh Ayazi Named 2013 IEEE Fellow". Georgia Tech. January 16, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2019.