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This year our social event will start with a short (0.5 mile) walk from the conference venue to the famous Madame Tussauds Las Vegas Museum, where we will have a late-afternoon (4pm-6pm) reception in a private room. Besides access to all exhibits of the museum, we will also have the opportunity to mingle and enjoy drinks in a relaxed atmosphere.

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas is a wax museum located in the Las Vegas Strip at The Venetian Las Vegas casino resort in Paradise, Nevada. The attraction opened in 1999, becoming the first Madame Tussauds venue to open in the United States. It features over 100 wax figures of famous celebrities, film and TV characters, athletes, musicians and Marvel superheroes, as well a 4D movie theatre.

We will then take a longer (1.5m) stroll on the Las Vegas Strip, from Madam Tussauds Las Vegas Museum to the MGM Grand Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, where at 7pm we will enjoy the famous show KÀ by Cirque du Soleil. For those who do not wish to walk, the Las Vegas Monorail can be picked up from Harrah’s/The Linq station to the MGM Grand Station ($5 single-ride ticket).

KÀ tells the epic tale of twins on a perilous journey to fulfill their shared destiny. A masterpiece in storytelling, this ultra lavish production features mind-bending acrobatics, fierce martial arts, blazing pyrotechnics and jaw-dropping aerial adventures. After the show, attendees may either walk back to the Caesars Palace or take the Las Vegas Monorail back to the Flamingo / Caesars Palace Station.

Precise instructions and directions will be distributed at the symposium.

Dr. Ahmad Bahai is the Chief Technology Officer of Texas Instruments and director of TI Corporate Research, Kilby Labs. He was previously CTO of National Semiconductor and director of research labs at National Semiconductor. He also is a consulting professor at Stanford University and IEEE Fellow.

Previously, he was the technical manager of the communication and mixed-signal processing research group at Bell Laboratories until 1997and Professor-In-Residence at University of California, Berkeley. He later co-founded Algorex, an IC and system design company for communication and acoustic applications, which was acquired by National.

Ahmad co-invented the multi-carrier spread spectrum, which is being used in many modern communication systems, such as 4G and power line communication. He authored the first textbook on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in 1999 and served as the associate editor of IEEE journals for five years. He also served in ISSCC technical steering committee until 2011.

Ahmad has served as technology advisor for many major energy initiatives in Europe and China, industrial advisory board of University of California, and visiting professor at Cheng Du University in China.

He has more than 80 IEEE/IEE publications and 42 patents on systems and circuits. He received his Master of Science degree from Imperial College, University of London and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.