RFIC 2025 Technical Panel 
Co-Organizers: Travis Forbes (Sandia National Laboratories), Salvatore Finocchiaro (Qorvo)

Monday, June 16, 2025

Title 
Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) Satellite Broadband: Revolutionizing Communication or Just Adding Space Debris?

Abstract
Large corporations are investing billions of dollars building thousands of LEO satellites to offer broadband internet services to rural and under-developed areas. In addition, many countries are jumping onto this wagon to secure their own access to the internet as part of a national security policy. On the other hand, the high satellite launch cost, hardware cost, and high monthly subscription fees do not seem to fit the objective of providing broadband access to the general earth population, many of whom are living in poverty. Come join the panel and find out if this is expensive space junk or a revolution in broadband internet access.

List of Panelists
Kenichi Okada, Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo  
Ryan Jennings, Director of SATCOM & Systems Engineering, Qorvo  
John Cowles, Senior Director of Engineering and Technology, Analog Devices  
Adrian Tang, Spaceflight SoC Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory  
Will Craven, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Maxar Space Infrastructure
 

RFIC 2025 Non-Technical Panel 
Co-Organizers: Subhanshu Gupta (Washington State University), Pierluigi Nuzzo (UC Berkeley), Oren Eliezer (Samsung Semiconductor USA)

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Title
RFIC Innovation: Has the Field Stalled or Are Researchers Losing Their Way?

Abstract
The past few years have arguably seen a decrease in transformational or disruptive discoveries reported in radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) papers and publications. Does this indicate that RFIC design has reached its maturity, or does it instead suggest a shift of innovations in emerging areas across the boundary of RFIC design, such as the heterogeneous integration of silicon, antennas, and processors using advanced packaging? If so, what should our community look for in publications and what would be considered “publishable work”? Are universities and research institutions addressing the most compelling challenges? And what has been the role of the funding agencies in promoting fundamental research? Our panel of experts, with the audience’s participation, will attempt to answer these questions and diagnose the trends seen in RFIC publications and in the field in general.

List of Panelists
Naveen Yanduru, Vice-President, Renesas  
Larry Kushner, Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon  
Andreia Cathelin, R&D Fellow, STM  Oleh Krutko, Vice-President, IMEC  
Ali Niknejad, Professor, UC Berkeley  
Dev Shenoy, Principal Director for Microelectronics, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering