Professor Ayazi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. His main research interest is in the areas of Integrated Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on integrated micro- and nano-mechanical resonators, inertial sensors, and mixed-signal interface circuits for MEMS and sensors. 

Dr. Ayazi is a past editor for the Elsevier Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical Journal, the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.  He served on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) for six years (2004-2009). He was the chairman of the Display, Sensors and MEMS (DSM) sub-committee at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2011). He was the general chair of the IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) conference in 2014, held in San Francisco, CA. He was the 2018 recipient of Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation Award from Georgia Tech. 

Dr. Ayazi was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Qualtré Inc., a spin-out from his research Laboratory that commercializes bulk-acoustic-wave (BAW) silicon gyroscopes personal navigation systems. Qualtré was acquired by Panasonic in 2016.

He is currently leading StethX Microsystems, another spinout of his research lab and an ATDC company in commercializing advanced wearable sensors for cardiopulmonary applications. He is a fellow of IEEE and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).