Alyosha Christopher Molnar

About

Alyosha Molnar received a B.S. in engineering with highest honors from Swarthmore College in 1997. After working as a deckhand on a fishing boat, he joined Conexant Systems Inc in Newport Beach CA in 1998. At Conexant, he worked as a RFIC design engineer and co-led the design of their first generation direct conversion GSM transceiver, which has sold more than 20 million parts to date. He entered graduate school at UC Berkeley in 2001 and received his MSEE in 2003 for his design of an ultra-low power RF transceiver for “Smart Dust” working with Professor Kris Pister. He then joined Frank Werblin’s neurobiology lab where he completed his doctoral work (still in electrical engineering), focusing on dissecting the neuronal circuitry of the rabbit retina using a combination of electrophysiolog

Education

• B.S., Engineering, Swarthmore College 1997
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley 2003
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley 2007