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Robert G. Swartz Past Chair, Nominating Committee IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society |
With this note, I report to you the results of the fifth annual election for membership on the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. For some reason, this election has not achieved the same degree of notoriety and publicity as the recent national elections in the United States. Perhaps it was because none of our candidates requested a recount! As has been the case in all recent SSCS elections, the vote totals were very close, and every candidate on the slate received a significant number of votes from our membership.
The following candidates have been elected: Asad Abidi, Bryan Ackland, Gary Baldwin, David Hodges, and Kiyoo Itoh. All five will take office on January 1, 2001 and will serve for a period of three years as your representatives on the AdCom. Their photos and biographies are below.
I thank all of the candidates who agreed to run for this office. We are all winners as a result of their spirit of volunteerism and their willingness to commit their own time to advance the technical development of our members and our profession.
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Robert G. Swartz Past Chair, Nominating Committee IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society |
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Asad A. Abidi |
Asad A. Abidi (S'75 – M'80 – S'80 – M'81 – SM'95 – F'96) received the B.Sc. (Hon.) de-gree from Imperial College, London, U.K., in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
He was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1981–84, and since 1985 he has been a Professor in the EE Department at UCLA. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1989. His research interests are in CMOS RF design, high-speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.
Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for ISSCC 1984–90 and General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. In 1992–1995, he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching, the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, was corecipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, and received the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation Conference. He received an IEEE Millennium Medal and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Bryan Ackland |
Bryan Ackland (S'77–M'78– SM'90–F'92) received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Flinders University, Australia, in 1972, and the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1975 and 1979, respectively.
In 1978, he joined Bell Laboratories. In 1986, he was appointed Director of the DSP
& VLSI Systems Research Department in Holmdel, NJ. Recent contributions of his team
have included a single-chip video codec for ISDN and POTS video conferencing; a low-cost,
low-power single-chip CMOS camera with video quality comparable to that of CCDs; and a
high-performance, multiprocessor architecture for DSP Systems On A Chip. His current
interests are focused on VLSI architectures and circuits for high-performance signal
processing applications, particularly in optical communication and multimedia.
Dr. Ackland is the author of over 60 conference and journal publications and 11 U.S.
patents. He became a Bell Laboratories Fellow in 1993 for leadership in VLSI tools and
circuits. He received Best Paper awards at ICCD in 1985 and 1990, at DAC in 1986, and in
JSSC in 1998. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1987 to 1994.
From 1988 to 1994, he served on the Program Committee for the IEEE ICCD, and has been a
member of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Executive Committee since 1997. He is
a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Gary L. Baldwin |
Gary L. Baldwin (S'66–M'70– SM'76–F'82) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, 1967, and 1970, respectively.
He was an Acting Assistant Professor of EE at UC Berkeley 1969–70 and was a member of the technical staff 1970–78 at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. Since 1978, he has been with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (now Agilent Laboratories), Palo Alto, CA, where he was the Director of the Solid-State Technology Laboratory from 1987 to 1999. His activities there included the management of work on compound semiconductor and organic materials and devices for electronic and photonic applications, GaAs and silicon IC design and fabrication, and silicon micromechanics research. Since November 1999, he has been on faculty loan to UC Berkeley, where he is the Program Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center.
Dr. Baldwin was a member of the ISSCC Program Committee 1974–1982. He was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 1980–88 and was President of the Solid-State Circuits Council from 1986 to 1988. He was the Program Cochair of the International Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Technology in Beijing, China, in 1995. He is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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David A. Hodges |
David A. Hodges (S'59–M'65– SM'71–F'77) received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961 and 1966, respectively.
From 1966 to 1970, he was with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill and Holmdel, NJ. Since 1970, he has been a faculty member in EECS at UC Berkeley. Following a year as Chair of the EECS Department, he was Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 1996. Since 1991, he and Professor R. C. Leachman have led UC Berkeley's interdisciplinary research program on Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing. He has worked in research on semiconductor memories, signal processing circuits, and switched-capacitor data converters and filters, and has authored or coauthored more than 120 archival publications. He coauthored Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits.
Prof. Hodges is a past Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and a past General Chairman of the ISSCC. He was founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He was corecipient of the 1983 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Award for switched-capacitor circuits and received the 1997 IEEE Education Medal. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Kiyoo Itoh |
Kiyoo Itoh (SM'89 – F'96) received the B.S. and Ph.D. de-grees in EE from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1963 and 1976, respectively.
He is currently one of two Fellows at Hitachi, Ltd. He was a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley in 1994, a visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo in 1995, and is now a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Since 1972, he has led memory (especially DRAM) technology at Hitachi. He was the lead designer of the first prototype for eight generations of Hitachi DRAMs ranging from 4 Kb to 64 Mb. Since 1989, he has been developing low-power/low-voltage CMOS circuits. He holds over 140 patents, including the folded bit line, in both Japan and the U.S. He has authored or coauthored two books and over 110 papers in IEEE journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Itoh received the 1993 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award, the 1984 IEEE Paul Rappaport Award, and the Best Paper Award from ESSCIRC90. He has won many awards in Japan, including a Commendation by the Minister of State for Science and Technology in 1997 and a National Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2000. He has served on the Program Committee of ISSCC and is a Fellow of the IEEE.