JOHAN H. HUIJSING

Johan H. Huijsing was born on May 21, 1938. He was a full professor in the chair of Electronic Instrumentation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Delft University of Technology since 1990. Since 2003 he is Emeritus Professor. The research work of Johan Huijsing is particularly focussed on the systematic analysis and design of operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters and integrated smart sensors. He is author and co-author of some 250 papers, 40 patents and 13 books, and co-editor of 13 books. He is fellow of IEEE for contributions to the design and analysis of analog integrated circuits. He received the title of Simon Stevin Meester for applied research by the Dutch Technology Foundation. He is initiator of the international Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design, which has been held annually since 1992. He is consultant for Philips Semiconductors, USA, since 1983, and for Maxim Integrated Products, USA, since 1998.

RON HOGERVORST

Ron Hogervorst was born in Voorschoten, The Netherlands, on December 2, 1967. In 1991 he received the M.Sc. degree from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 1996 he received the Ph.D. degree from the same university on the subject of low-power low-voltage CMOS operational amplifiers. In 1997 he joined Rockwell Semiconductors (Conexant), France, where he has been working as analog design engineer. In 1999 he has been consultant with VLSI/Philips working on a high speed DLL for RAMBUS interface. In December of the same year he joined the mixed signal wireless communication team of Texas Instruments France. Formerly with Centillium Communications, he worked with Conexant Systems in Sophia Antipolis, France later, and recently, he rejoined Centillium Communications where he is now responsible for Gigabit Serdes design ( Recently the analog group of Centillium Communications was bought by Ikanos Communications). He published many international peer-reviewed papers, holds several patents and published a book titled "Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power Operational Amplifier Cells" with Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

RUDY ESCHAUZIER

MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands, 1990 and 1994 respectively, specializing in analog and mixed-signal IC circuit design. In 1994 he joined Philips Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA. He first worked on automotive ICs, later he focused on ASICs for CDMA cellular phone handsets. In 1997 he became group leader of the wireless IF group. In 1998 he joined the Amplifiers Product group of National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, CA, where he was responsible for setting up the High-Speed Amplifiers section. In 1999 he moved back to the Netherlands to become co-founder of the National Semiconductor's European Development Center for amplifiers in Delft, again heading up the high-speed effort. From 2001 through 2007, Rudy was Managing Director of the Development Center. In 2007 he joined Maxim Integrated products to establish a design center for this company in Delft. He holds a number of U.S. and international patents and is author and co-author of several internationally published peer-review publications. Furthermore, together with Prof. J.H. Huijsing he authored the book "Frequency Compensation Techniques for Low-Power Amplifiers", which was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

KLAAS-JAN DE LANGEN

Klaas-Jan de Langen received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1991 and 1999, respectively. He specialized in ultra-low voltage opamps and high-speed opamps in CMOS, BiCMOS and bipolar technology. In 1999 he joined Philips Semiconductors (now NXP semiconductors) where he worked on automotive ASICS, first in Sunnyvale,CA, and later in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Since 2008 he is with Monolithic Power Systems in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he is designing DC-DC converters. He published several international peer-reviewed papers, holds 6 US patents and published a book on "Compact Low-Voltage and High-Speed CMOS, BiCMOS and Bipolar Operational Amplifiers" with Kluwer academic Publishers, Boston.

FRERIK WITTE

Frerik Witte was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on March 16, 1979, where he lived until finishing his high school education (Atheneum) in 1997. In that year, he moved to Delft to start his studies in electrical engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology in 2003. The subject of his M.Sc. thesis was "On-Chip Time References and Electro-Thermal Oscillators". In 2003, he started working towards a Ph.D. degree at the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory of Delft University of Technology. The subject of his Ph.D. thesis was "Dynamic Offset Compensated CMOS Amplifiers". From January to April 2003, he did an internship at Philips Semiconductors automotive business line, San Jose, California. Since January 2009, he is working as a senior design engineer for National Semiconductor at Delft in the precision systems business line. His professional interests include sensors, precision analog and mixed-signal design. He received the ESSCIRC 2006 Young Scientist Award.

QINWEN FAN

Qinwen Fan was born in Inner Mongolia, China. She received her B.Sc. degree in electronic science and technology from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2006, and her M.Sc. degree in microelectronics (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands in 2008. Since then, she has been a PhD candidate at the same university. From August 2007 to August 2008, she was an intern at NXP Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where she worked on an instrumentation amplifier for biomedical data acquisition. Her research interests include the design of precision analog amplifiers, biomedical interface circuits, and mixed-signal integrated circuits.