Morgan's Factsheet

Biographical Sketch:

Morgan J. Chen (S'00,M'03) received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2008.

In the summer of 2001, he was an Engineer at Boeing Autometric, Inc., in San Diego, CA. In the summer of 2002, he conducted research on a multiband/multimode transmitter at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In the summers of 2004 and 2005, he conducted research in MEMS thin-film circuit integration at General Electric Global Research (GEGR), Niskayuna, NY. From 2003 to 2008, he conducted research at the University of California, Davis developing wafer-level/chip-scale packaging (WLCSP) for RF MEMS circuits using Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP). He is currently a Senior R&D Engineer at Endwave Corporation where he develops novel, low-cost broadband packages operating from DC to past 60 GHz and MMIC designs. He has authored or coauthored over 15 technical journal and conference papers. His research interests include low-cost RF/microwave packaging implementation, MEMS, and circuit design.

Dr. Chen serves as a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and is on the Editorial Review Board for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT). He is currently on the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Technical Program Committee (TPC) subcommittee SC7 on microwave and millimeter-wave systems and networks. He is a Life Member of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN).

Education:

• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Davis from September of 2003 to January of 2008.
• BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley in May of 2003.
• HS from Mount Carmel in San Diego, California in June of 1999.

Misc:

Pre-Collegiate
In high school as math club president from 1997-1999, I tripled membership, increased revenue ten-fold, improved overall performance in regional competitions, increased social activities, and boosted well-attended peer tutoring math services to several days a week afterschool. I consistently recieved top honors in the Science Olympiad regional and state competitions. My 1999 ThinkQuest entry recieved a cash prize award in the area of design of a scientific website. Also in 1999, I was an Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search quarter-finalist for research on oil-colloidal systems using laser back-scattering for applications in breast cancer detection.

Collegiate Studies
In my undergraduate days, I participated in various research projects, including verification of BSIM SPICE models under Prof. Chenming Hu, construction of an optical sensing instrument under Prof. Kris Pister, and the NSF sponsored development of a direct conversion radio under Prof. Anh-Vu Pham. I have held summer internships at Boeing Autometric, Inc. and General Electric Global Research. I have been an officiating member of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) at Berkeley. I am also a member of several IEEE societies (MTT-S, CPMT). In 2003, I earned my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2003-2008, I worked towards my PhD at the University of California, Davis. My research was geared towards low-cost multilayer RFIC/MMIC circuit implementation using liquid-crystal polymer (LCP) structures. This work advances Multi-Chip Module (MCM), System-on-Package (SoP) / System-in-a-Package (SiP) technology. I have significant expertise packaging and characterizing Radio Frequency Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (RF MEMS) structures in LCP processes.

Current
As of January of 2008, I am at Endwave Corporation working as a research and development design engineer.

Hobbies:

• Recreation: Equestrian (english), tennis
• Instrumentals: Piano, guitar, clarinet
• Gourmet dining
• Musicals
  
  • Rent - UK
  • Carmen
  • Les Miserables -San Francisco, CA
  • Phantom of the Opera - NY
  • Mamma Mia - San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1, 2000
  • Opera (Don Giovanni, Samson and Delileh) -San Francisco, CA
• Concerts
  
  • Save Ferris/Ozomatli - Berkeley, CA, Spring 2000
  • Bridge School benefit XV (Crazy Horse, Pearl Jam, REM, Dave Mathews, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, Billy Idol and Jill Sobule.) - San Jose, CA, October 2001
  • U2 - San Jose, CA, April 2001
  • Jimmy Buffet - San Diego, CA, Summer 2001
  • They Might Be Giants - Atlanta, GA, Summer 2002
  • Papa Roach- Atlanta, GA, Summer 2002
  • Abba Gold - Albany, NY, Summer 2004
  • John Waite/Meat Loaf - Saratoga, NY, Summer 2005
  • Blackalicious/Black Eyed Peas - San Francisco, CA, Fall 2005
• and enjoying the standard technophile stuff.