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.

Paul Brokaw

BS, Oklahoma State University, he spent his early years investigating flashlight workings and disemboweling toasters. Later, he worked at Well Surveys Inc., at Labko Scientific Inc., and at Arthur D. Little Inc., as well as at Communication Technology Inc. In 1971, he moved to Nova Devices, which became the Semiconductor Division of Analog Devices. He is now an Analog Fellow. He has presented and published papers at technical conferences and in IEEE journals, has been active in IEEE, including several years on the ISSCC program committee, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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.

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.

Chock Karuppaiah

Dr. Karuppaiah has over 15 years experience in Fuel Cells and Electrochemical Science and Engineering. He is the founding director of EC Labs, a consulting firm focusing on energy conversion and storage devices, electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering. He also holds consulting positions at several green tech companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to his recent position, he was at Case Western Reserve University as a Research Faculty, where he focused on the science of reliability and durability of PEM Fuel Cells. Prior to that, he was the Senior Scientist and Manager of the Fundamentals Team at Plug Power.

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.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi holds a PhD from Stanford and is Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He has published 150 papers and seven books and received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and writing.

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

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.

Jesper Steensgaard

MSEE (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) both from the Technical University of Denmark. Microsemi Micropower Products (2001-2002). Founder and manager of ESION LLC, developing technology and providing consulting services in several fields, including delta-sigma data converters, low-noise/low-power circuits, and medical applications. He joined Linear Technology in 2007 as a Senior Design Engineer.

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./p>

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.