Instructional Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering KAUST Founder and CEO Trysl Tech
Talal Al-Attar has taught electrical engineering at institutions such as Kuwait University, Kuwait; Stanford University, U. S.; Santa Clara University, U. S.; and KAUST, Saudi Arabia, for over 15 years.
Professor Al-Attar received his B. S. and M. S. from Kuwait University and his Ph. D. from Stanford University. His doctoral work focused on impact ionization avalanche transit-time( IMPATT) modeling at the millimeter-wave range, on-chip integration of microstrip patch antennas and transmission lines in standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor( CMOS) technology.
Al-Attar’ s career began as a senior design and device engineer at Volterra Semiconductor, U. S., where he worked from 2004 to 2007. He also worked as a senior consultant at Sabio Labs in 2007 before joining Magma Design Automation in 2008. Al-Attar consulted several companies between 2007 and 2014, including Ensphere Solutions, AWR, Intersil and Intel. After joining Santa Clara University( SCU), U. S., he was initially an adjunct professor before becoming a lecturer and full-time assistant professor. He spent eight years at SCU, serving as the SCU Center for Analog Design and Research director. Al-Attar joined KAUST in 2014 as a consultant / visiting associate professor and in 2018 as a senior lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering( ECE) program.