John Choma earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1963, 1965, and 1969, respectively. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics at the University of Southern California, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical circuit theory and analog integrated electronics. Prof. Choma consults in the areas of broadband analog and high speed digital integrated circuit analysis, design, and modeling.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in 1980, Prof. Choma was a senior staff design engineer in the TRW Microelectronics Center in Redondo Beach, California. His earlier positions include technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Company in Santa Clara, California, Senior Lecturer in the Graduate Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology, and part time or full time positions with the University of Pittsburgh, University of Santa Clara, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California at Los Angeles.
Prof. Choma, the author or co-author of some 100 journal and conference papers, is the 1994 recipient of the Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is the author of a Wiley Interscience text on electrical network theory and a forthcoming Richard D. Irwin text on electronic circuit design. He is also co-authoring (with Prof. W-K. Chen) a graduate level text on electronic feedback systems. Prof. Choma has contributed several chapters to three edited electronic circuit texts, and he is an area editor of the IEEE/CRC Press Handbook of Circuits and Filters.
Prof. Choma, a former Vice-President for Administration of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and is the current President-Elect of the Society. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, a former Regional Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. He presently serves as Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part II.
Prof. Choma's research interests include wideband analog and high speed digital integrated circuit design, behavioral analysis of electronic systems, integrated device modeling, and engineering education in the circuits and systems areas. A Fellow of the IEEE, he is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and he is a "Distinguished Lecturer" in the IEEE Circuits And Systems Society.
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