Robert Blauschild

MSEE, UC Berkeley, 1973. He is working with Ikanos Communications in Fremont, CA. He has served for 16 years on the ISSCC program committee, and has twice been a Guest Editor of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He holds over a dozen patents in the field of analog circuit design.

Ian Galton

Received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1992, and is presently a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he teaches and conducts research in the field of mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for communications. He was formerly with UC Irvine, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Acuson, and Mead Data Central. His published research involves the development of key communication system blocks such as data converters, frequency synthesizers, and clock recovery systems. In addition to his academic research, he regularly consults at several communications and semiconductor companies, and has served on a corporate Board of Directors and several Technical Advisory Boards.

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.

Pavan K. Hanumolu

Pavan Kumar Hanumolu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 2006. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the same University. His research interests include high-speed I/O interfaces, digital techniques to compensate for analog circuit imperfections, time-based signal processing, and power-management circuits.

Vadim Ivanov

MSEE 1980, Ph.D. 1987, both in the USSR. He designed electronic systems and ASICs for naval navigation equipment from 1980 to 1991 in St.Petrsburg, Russia and mixed signal ASICs for sensors, GPS/GLONASS receivers and for motor control between 1991 and 1995. He joined Burr Brown (presently Texas Instruments, Tucson) in 1996 as a senior member of technical staff, where has been involved with the design of the operational, instrumentation, power amplifiers, references and switching and linear voltage regulators. Has 25 US patents, with 10 more pending, on analog circuit techniques and authored > 30 technical papers and three books: "Power Integrated Amplifiers" (Leningrad, Rumb, 1987), "Analog system design using ASICs" (Leningrad, Rumb, 1988), both in Russian, and "Operational Amplifier Speed and Accuracy Improvement", Kluwer, 2004.

Dragan Maksimovic

Received his Ph.D. degree from Caltech in 1989. Since 1992 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC), an industry-funded research center with focus on advanced power control techniques and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications. He has over 15 year of teaching, research and consulting experience in the power electronics and power-management areas, and has published over 80 papers in journals and professional conferences. Prof. Maksimovic is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and a Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Paper Award. He is a co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Kluwer 2000.

Ken Pedrotti

Ph.D. EE, Stanford University, 1985, MSEE, University of California Berkeley, 1979. Currently a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, his interests include devices and circuits for mixed signal VLSI, optical communication networks and imaging systems. From 1985 to 2000 he was with the Rockwell Science Center and Conexant Systems in California, his research activities there included the development of integrated optoelectronic devices and circuits, systems research for WDM optical networks, and mixed signal VLSI for visible and IR imaging. Dr. Pedrotti has served on the board of governors of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society. He has authored over 50 papers and holds 8 patents.

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.

Jan Rabaey

Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1983. From 1983 till 1985, he was at the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 till 1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium. In 1987, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a professor. From 1999 until 2002, he was the Associate Chair of the EECS Dept in Berkeley. He is currently director of the Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC) and scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He received numerous scientific awards, including the 1985 IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design Best Paper Award (Circuits and Systems Society), the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1994 Signal Processing Society Senior Award, and the 2002 IEEE ISSCC Jack Raper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Richard Redl

Ph.D., Technical University of Budapest, 1973. He is presently a consultant in Switzerland, specializing in power supplies, UPSs, electronic ballasts, and integrated circuit architectures for power management. He holds 15 patents with 3 more patents pending, has published over ninety technical papers, and is co-author of a book on dynamic analysis of power converters. Dr. Redl is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and a senior member of the IEEE.

Willy Sansen

Prof. Willy Sansen has an MSc Degree from the K.U.Leuven and a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Since 1980 he has been full professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, where he has headed the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design since 1984. He has been supervisor of sixty-three PhD theses and has authored and coauthored more than 635 publications and sixteen books, among which "Analog Design Essentials" (Springer 2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was program chair of the ISSCC-2002 conference and is now Past-President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits.

Timothy J. Schmerbeck

Timothy Schmerbeck is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the Integrated Circuit (IC) development team in IBM's Technology Development Group at Rochester, Minnesota. He has 34 years of experience designing IC's. He received bachelor's, and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology, in 1977 and 1985 respectively. His graduate work dealt with the design of a hybrid, integrated, analog signal processor IC for disk drive servo systems. He joined the Integrated Circuit (IC) design group at IBM in Rochester, MN in 1977 where he spent roughly 25 years working on virtually every aspect of analog and digital IC design and development for storage, communications, and computer systems. He has specialized in mixed analog and digital IC designs and has been teaching on the subject of IC signal integrity at seminars, worldwide, for two decades. Those seminars have influenced the development of the only chip substrate signal integrity analysis CAD on the market today. He has been given numerous IBM corporate and division awards and corporate honors including the title of Master Inventor. Since the acquisition of the IBM optical communications group by JDS Uniphase in December 2001, he spent three years designing 1 to 10 GHz optical transceiver ICs, until returning to IBM in late 2004. He has been involved with IEEE since 1975 when he was treasurer of the University of Minnesota student chapter. He has authored and contributed to numerous technical publications, conference presentations, panel sessions, tutorials, workshops, books, college courses, and holds many patents in IC design. In his spare time he studies theology and enjoys contemplating the works of the greatest engineer.

Jesper Steensgaard

MSEE (1994) Ph.D. (1999) both from the Technical University of Denmark. Assistant Professor at Columbia University (2000-2001). In 2001 he founded ESION LLC developing technology, intellectual property, and providing consulting services in several fields, including delta-sigma data converters, low-noise/low-power circuits, and medical applications. Since 2007 he has been with Linear Technology (data converters). He holds 10 patents.

Thomas Szepesi

Ph.D., Tech. University of Budapest, 1980. He is currently a consultant for start-up companies in the power management IC area. Previously he was Vice President of Engineering at iWatt Inc., a start-up company, specializing in digital controller ICs of power converters, in Los Gatos, California. From 1994 to 2002 he was Product Line Director of Power Management Products at Analog Devices, Inc. From 1981 to 1994 he was with National Semiconductor Inc., where he was involved with the application and design of integrated circuits in the power management area. He holds 8 patents US patents and has published over a dozen papers in this field. He has served for three years on the ISSCC analog program subcommittee.

Gabor Temes

Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1961. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Oregon State University, Professor Emeritus, UCLA. Formerly with UCLA, Ampex Corp., Stanford University and BNR. Life Fellow IEEE. He wrote many books and papers on circuit design and data converters. He received the Technical Achievement Award and the Education Award of the IEEE CAS Society, as well as the IEEE Centennial Medal. He is also the recipient of the 1998 IEEE Graduate Teaching Award and received the IEEE Millennium Medal and the IEEE/CAS Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000. the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in 2006, and the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award in 2009.

Maarten Vertregt

Received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente (UT), Enschede (The Netherlands). He joined Philips Research in 1985. He worked on the design of 1Mbit and 4Mbit SRAM memories, and subsequently on A/D conversion with embedded signal processing. Since 1996 he coordinates the design activities for high speed A/D and D/A conversion functions within the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems group of Philips Research. Presently he is a senior principal in the Research department (Corporate Innovation and Technology) of NXP Semiconductors. His research interests are with the migration of signal processing from the analog domain to the digital domain to cope with new system demands, in combination with scaling to nanometer-CMOS process technology. He was plenary invited speaker on analog scalability at the 2004 ESSCIRC/ESSDERC and 2006 IEDM conferences. He authored and co-authored over 20 publications and 9 patents.

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.