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Dr. Zoltan J. Cendes, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ansoft Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA Electromagnetic analysis has always been a useful tool to examine the behavior of traditional microwave components such as antennas, waveguides, couplers, and the like. Recent advances in RF and microwave circuitry has driven CAE tool development such that EM analysis has found many applications in planar circuitry. These applications typically started small, such as the analysis of a planar spiral inductor on an insulating substrate, and move to larger problems such as substrate coupling analysis for a highly integrated IC manufactured in bulk CMOS. Advances in algorithms and increases in affordable computing power and have made tool usage much more practical. Speaker abridged Biography: Dr. Zoltan J. Cendes is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ansoft Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. He provides the principal vision behind the company's strategic product planning and development.
Dr. Cendes also serves as the technical leader of Ansoft's research and development where he is responsible for managing the company¹s product and technology research. Most notably, Dr. Cendes is responsible for developing the theory behind Ansoft¹s High-Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) and the Maxwell® EM Field Simulation Software.
A renowned authority on electromagnetic field computation, Dr. Cendes has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has lectured extensively both in the United States and abroad on electromagnetic field simulation using finite element analysis techniques and has published over 200 technical papers on the subject.
Prior to joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Cendes Served as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, and as Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Union College, Schenectady, New York. His previous experience includes six years with the General Electric Corporation, first in the Large Steam Turbine Generator Division and then in the Corporate Research and Development Center.
Dr. Cendes received his doctorate and master¹s degrees in electrical engineering from McGill University. He is an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Power Engineering Society, IEEE Microwave Society, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He also serves on the International Steering Committee of the COMPUMAG Conference and is a past chairman of the IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation. |
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