Kaveh Azar, Ph.D, President & CEO

Kaveh Azar, Ph.D., is the president, CEO and founder of Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS), a leading thermal management and mechanical packaging solutions provider.

Prior to ATS, Dr. Azar was the founder and manager of Lucent Technologies’ Thermal Management Center, responsible for developing next generation cooling systems. In addition, Dr. Azar authored Lucent’s thermal roadmap and served as the corporate thermal consultant. While at Lucent, he developed a state-of-the-art thermal/fluids laboratory for simulation of components, boards and systems.

Since 1985, Dr. Azar has been an active participant in the electronics thermal community and has served as organizer, general chair and keynote speaker at national and international conferences sponsored by ASME, IEEE and AIAA. In addition, he has been the recipient of the IEEE SEMITHERM Significant Contributor Award in the thermal management of electronics systems.

Dr. Azar has been an invitee to national bodies such as NSF, NIST and NEMI for organizing government and industry research goals in electronics cooling. He has also been an adjunct professor at a number of universities, including Northeastern University, and lectures worldwide in analytical and experimental methods in electronics cooling. He holds more than 36 national and international patents, is the author of Thermal Measurements in Electronics Cooling and has published more than 75 articles and book chapters

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