About

President: Edward A. Keehr

Edward A. Keehr received the S.B. and M. Eng degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 2001 and 2002 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA in 2011.

From 1999 to 2002, he held summer internships with QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, CA as part of the MIT VI-A internship program. From 2002 to 2005 he worked at QUALCOMM as a full-time Design Engineer specializing in analog and mixed-signal circuits. From 2010 to 2013 he was a Project Manager/Project Technical Lead reporting to the CEO at AyDeeKay LLC (now Indie Semiconductor), Laguna Niguel, CA managing teams of up to 20 people and working on serial data link and power management circuits and systems. Since 2013 he has served as President and Consultant at Superlative Semiconductor LLC, Carlsbad, CA.

Dr. Keehr is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor societies. He was selected to be a recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship in 2005 and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2006. He received 2nd Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2010 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium. In 2011, he received the Charles Wilts Prize for outstanding independent research in electrical engineering leading to a Ph.D. at Caltech. In 2018 he won the Best Paper (Honorable Mention) and Best Poster (Experts' Vote) at the 2018 IEEE RFID Conference. He is listed as the primary inventor on 11 issued U.S. patents.