BSEE 1990 - EECSAfter graduation, Sterling Smith worked for Texas Instruments and Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation before moving to MStar as Vice President of Integrated Circuits Research and Development. At Texas Instruments, he was the liaison for CDADIC, the consortium of companies and universities (including OSU, UW, and WSU) collaborating on circuit design and analog-digital integrated circuits. MStar, based in Taiwan, is an IC design house providing mixed-mode integrated circuit technologies. Smith attended graduate school at Texas A & M University, where he and his major professor won the prestigious Darlington Award for bridging the gap between theory and practice for their 1996 paper in the IEEE Transactions in 1996.