Five New 2002 AdCom Members
 Bruce
Wooley
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The SSCS membership elected five AdCom members in the Fall 2001 election. As has been the case in all elections for the AdCom of the Solid-State Circuits Society, the vote totals in this year’s election were quite close. Every candidate on this year’’s outstanding slate received a significant number of votes from our membership. The following candidates have been elected: Gerhard
Fettweis For the electees, the term of office starts on 1 January 2002 and lasts for three years. I thank all the candidates who agreed to run for this office. They are all outstanding contributors to the SSCS, and I look forward to having each engaged in the Society’s activities in the future. The success of the Society depends on the efforts and dedication of individuals such as these and their willingness to commit their time and expertise to the benefit of all of the members of our profession. We are deeply in their debt. |
Gerhard
Fettweis received his MSc/Dipl-Ing
and PhD degrees in EE from the Aachen University of Technology (RWTH),
Germany, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1991 he was a Visiting
Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California,
working on signal processing for disk drives. From 1991 to 1994 he was
a Scientist with TCSI, Berkeley, California, responsible for signal-processor
developments for mobile phones. Since September 1994 he has held the Mannesmann
Mobilfunk Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at the Dresden University
of Technology, Germany. He has been an elected member on the SSCS Administrative
Committee since 1999, and on the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors from 1998
to 2000. He has been Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems II, and Associate Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, the wireless series. Over the years he has
organized and been on the program committees of numerous IEEE workshops
and conferences. Since 1999 he has been CTO of Systemonic, a startup spun
out of TU Dresden, focussing on broadband wireless chipsets.
Richard
C. Jaeger received his BS and ME degrees in EE in 1966 and
his PhD degree in 1969, all from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
From 1969 to 1979 he was with the IBM Corporation working on precision
analog design, I2L, microprocessor architecture, and low-temperature
MOS device and circuit behavior. Since 1979 he has been at Auburn University
where he is Distinguished University Professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering. In 1984 he helped found the Alabama Microelectronics Science
and Technology Center and served as Director of the center until 2000.
He has published over 200 technical papers and articles and three books:
Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication, Microelectronic Circuit Design,
and Computerized Circuit Analysis Using SPICE Programs with B.
M. Wilamowski. From 1980 to 1982 he served as founding Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE MICRO. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1986.
Dr. Jaeger was a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1984-1991, serving the last two years as Council President. He was Program Chair for the 1993 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Chair of the 1990 VLSI Circuits Symposium, and Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1995-1998. He has been an elected member of the SSCS AdCom since 1999, and Chairs the SSCS Publications and Awards Committees.
David
A. Johns received the BASc, MASc, and PhD degrees from the
University of Toronto, Canada, in 1980, 1983 and 1989, respectively. In
1988 joined the University of Toronto where he is currently a full Professor.
He has ongoing research programs in analog integrated circuits with particular
emphasis on digital communications, oversampling, signal processing, PLLs,
ADCs, DACs, and adaptive filtering. His research work has resulted in
more than 40 publications as well as the 1999 IEEE Darlington Award. He
is co-author of the Analog Integrated Circuit Design (Wiley, 1997)
textbook and has given numerous industrial Short Courses. In addition
to his academic experience, he has four years of semiconductor industrial
experience during 1980, 1983-85, and 1995, and is co-founder of Snowbush,
a microelectronics company. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II from 1993 to 1995 and for
Part I from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Johns is an IEEE Fellow.
Neil
Weste received a BSc, BE(Elec) and PhD from the University
of Adelaide, Australia. He commenced working for Bell Labs in 1977, working
on early VLSI design tools (the MULGA suite). He taught at Duke and UNC,
Chapel Hill, from 1981 to 1982 and was Vice President of Design & Systems
at MCNC in North Carolina. In 1984 he joined Symbolics to lead an effort
on the Ivory single chip Lisp machine. Following this in 1985, he co-founded
TLW, a chip engineering firm. In 1995 he returned to Australia to join
Macquarie University as Professor of Microelectronics. He co-founded Radiata
Communications in 1997 (IEEE 802.11a chipsets), which was acquired by
Cisco Systems in 2001. He currently is employed by Cisco Systems Wireless
Networking Business Unit in Sydney, Australia, as Director of Engineering.
His interests are wireless networking, Systems-on-a-chip, analog, RF,
and digital IC design, and technology incubation. Dr. Weste has been an
elected member of the SSCS AdCom since 1999.
Takayasu
Sakurai received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in EE from the
University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. In
1981 he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he designed CMOS DRAM, SRAM,
and BiCMOS ASICs. He also worked on interconnect delay and capacitance
modeling, known as the Sakurai model and the alpha power-law MOS model.
From 1988 through 1990, he was a visiting researcher at UC, Berkeley,
doing research in the field of VLSI CAD. In 1990 he returned to Toshiba,
where he managed
RISCs, media processors, and MPEG LSI designs. Since 1996 he has been
a professor at the University of Tokyo, working on low-power and high-performance
system LSI designs. He has published more than 250 technical papers and
several books, and holds more than 50 patents. He served as a Conference
Chair for the Symposium on VLSI Circuits, and has been a program committee
member for ISSCC, CICC, DAC, ICCAD, FPGA workshop, ISLPED, ASPDAC, TAU,
and other international conferences. His current research interests include
ultra low-power design of VLSI systems, battery-less systems, system in
a package, and high-speed interconnects, including signal integrity.