# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asad-abidi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:47:31.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asad-abidi"
name: "Asad Abidi"
slug: "asad-abidi"
description: "Asad Ali Abidi is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology during the late 1980s to early 1990s. As of 2008, the radio transceivers in all wireless networking devices and modern mobile phones are mass-produced as RF CMOS devices."
tagline: "Pakistani electrical engineer and scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abidi-262sm_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1956-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.92
  momentum:             2.962962962962963
  historical:           5.279374666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad_Abidi"
    title: "Asad Abidi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "أسد عبيدي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "اسد ادیبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "اسد عابدی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "اسد ادیبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad_Abidi"
    title: "Asad Abidi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4803197"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump