John Cowles

Received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1994. He joined TRW in Redondo Beach, Ca. as a senior member of the technical staff developing advanced GaAs and InP bipolar technologies. In 1998 he joined Analog Devices - Northwest Labs in Beaverton OR working in Barrie Gilbert's team on the design of high performance RF, analog and mixed-mode ICs in Si/SiGe bipolar and BiCMOS technologies. In 2004 he became the design manager for the Northwest Labs.

Barrie Gilbert

ADI Fellow and Manager of the Northwest Labs., Analog Devices, Inc. He has more than 45 years experience in electronic and IC design, and 65 patents. He has authored papers in JSSC and other journals, is a contributor to several texts, and a co-editor of a recent book. For work on merged logic he received the IEEE Outstanding Achievement Award (1970) and for contributions to nonlinear signal processing the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council Outstanding Development Award (1986). He was Oregon Researcher of the Year in 1990, and received the Solid-State Circuits Award in 1992, the ISSCC Outstanding Paper Award on five occasions, the Best Paper Award at ESSCIRC twice, and various awards for Best Product of the Year. Honorary Doctor of Engineering, OSU, 1997.

Marcel Pelgrom

Ph.D., Twente University of Technology, Enschede, 1988. In 1979, he joined Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he investigated the matching behavior of MOS devices, designed memories, A/D and D/A converters and other analog circuits. From 1989 to 1996, he was a team leader for research on high-speed A/D conversion and related subjects. From 1996 till 2003, he was department head of the Mixed-signal Circuits and Systems group of Philips Research Labs. He is a Philips Research Fellow and an NXP Research Fellow. He holds 28 US patents and has published 40 papers and book chapters and acts as a consulting professor in Stanford University, Palo Alto USA. The IEEE has appointed him as a Distinguished Lecturer.

Willy Sansen

He is a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Stanford, Lausanne, Philadelphia and Ulm. His research is on design automation and on analogue integrated circuit design for telecom, consumer electronics, medical applications and sensors. He has authored and co-authored over 500 papers and eleven books.

Michiel Steyaert

Received his Ph.D. degree in electronics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in June 1987. In 1988 he was an associated assistant professor at the U.C.L.A. From 1989 he joined the ESAT-MICAS group at the KUL, were he is now a Full Professor. His current research interests are in analog integrated circuits for high-frequency telecommunication systems and high performance analog signal processing. He authored or co-authored over 250 papers and co-authored over 5 books. He received the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award, the 1995 and 1997 ISSCC Evening Session Award, the 1999 IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award and the 1991 NFWO Alcatel-Bell-Telephone award for innovative work in integrated circuits for telecommunications.

Eric Vittoz

Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), 1969. He was engaged in the early developments of electronic watches since 1962 in CEH, where he was appointed Vice-Director in 1971. Since 1984, he has been with CSEM (Swiss Center of Electronics and Microtechnology) were he was Executive Vice-President, Advanced Micro-electronics until 1999. He is now fully retired from CSEM where he held the position of Chief Scientist. He is also professor at EPFL, has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers on low power, analog design, and analog VLSI computation, and holds 26 patents. A Life Fellow of IEEE, he is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Field Award.