Biography

Héctor J. De Los Santos is President and CTO of NanoMEMS Research, LLC, Irvine, CA, a new company engaged in RF MEMS and Nanotechnology research, consulting, and education, with main activities aiming at discovering and exploiting fundamentally new devices and circuits enabled by these novel technologies. Prior to founding NMR in October 2002, he spent two years as Principal Scientist at Coventor, Inc., Irvine, CA, where he led Coventor’s RF MEMS intellectual property R&D effort, with activities including the conception, modeling, and design of novel RF MEMS devices and circuits. He received a Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1989. From March 1989 to September 2000, he was employed at Hughes Space and Communications Company, Los Angeles, CA, where he served as Scientist and Principal Investigator and Director of the Future Enabling Technologies IR&D Program. Under this program he pursued research in the areas of RF MEMS, Quantum Functional Devices and Circuits, and Photonic Bandgap Devices and Circuits. Dr. De Los Santos holds a seventeen US and European patents, and is author of the bestseller textbooks Introduction to Microelectromechanical (MEM) Microwave Systems, Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1999, and RF MEMS Circuit Design for Wireless Communications, Norwood, MA: Artech House, June 2002. Dr. De Los Santos’ achievements are recognized in Maquis’ Who’sWho in Science and Engineering, Millennium Edition, and Who’sWho in the World, 18th Edition. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for the 2001-2003 term.