Dr. Thanh Tran, Professor in the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and Signal and Power Integrity Engineer at Raytheon Technologies, earned his BSEE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and M. S. and Ph. D. in electrical engineering from University of Houston. Prior to his current positions, he had held various senior technical positions, including engineering technologist at Dell Technologies and Compaq Computer (acquired by HP), director of R&D at Earlens Corporation, chief technical advisor at Halliburton Company, senior electrical engineering manager at Becton Dickinson, and senior manager/CTO of New Emerging End Equipment of DSP Systems at Texas Instruments. Tran, a Senior IEEE member, has published two books , has published over 24 technical papers, and currently holds 37 granted patents plus 9 patents pending, related to virtual reality, computer gaming/audio systems, PC-Based HDTV, oil and gas logging systems, fiber optic communication, high bitrate telemetry systems, and mixed analog/digital ASICs. The issued patents include two key inventions in high-speed systems design, AC-coupled sinewave clocking in multi-CPU servers and direct sequence spread spectrum clocking with adjustable EMI reduction. Dr. Thanh Tran, a professor in the practice at Rice University and a server platform architect at AMD, earned his BSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and M. S. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. He is an accomplished engineer with extensive hands-on experience in architecting and designing complex systems and currently holds 37 issued patents. 978-3-031-04953-8Current State:
