The SSCS membership elected three new and two returning AdCom members in the Fall 2003 election: Anantha Chandrakasan, John Corcoran, Wanda Gass, Teresa Meng, and Jan Sevenhans. Their term of office begins on 1 January, 2003 and continues for three years.
We wish the newly elected AdCom members success and thank all candidates for their willingness to serve and for permitting their names to be included on the ballot. Our society and profession benefit from their dedication, expertise, and time.
Anantha
P. Chandrakasan is reelected to a second term on Adcom. He received
his PhD degree in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994.
He has been at MIT since 1994 and is currently an associate professor of
EECS. He held the Analog Devices Career Development Chair from 1994 to 1997.
He received career development awards from NSF, IBM, and National Semiconductor.
He is a co-founder and Chief Scientist at Engim, a company focused on high-performance
wireless communications. His publication awards include the 1993 IEEE Communications
Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE Electron Devices Society's
1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best Paper in an EDS publication, and
the 1999 Design Contest Award from DAC.His research interests include the low-power implementation of integrated systems, wireless microsensors, and emerging technologies. He is a co-author of "Low-Power Digital CMOS Design" and a co-editor of "Low-Power CMOS Design" and "High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits."
He has served on the program committee of various conferences including ISSCC, VLSI Circuits Symposium, DAC, ESSCIRC, and ISLPED. He has served as a technical program co-chair for ISLPED '97, VLSI Design '98, and SiPS '98. He served as an associate editor for the IEEE JSSC from 1998 to 2001. He was the technical program vice-chair for ISSCC 2002 and is the technical program chair for ISSCC 2003.
John
J. Corcoran is reelected to a second term on Adcom. He received his
BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1968
and his MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in
1970. From 1969 to 1999 he was with Hewlett-Packard Company, first at the
Santa Clara Instrument Division, then at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in
Palo Alto, California. His work at HP focused on integrated circuit design
in bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS, CCD, GaAs MESFET, and GaAs HBT technologies. He
is presently manager of the Mixed-Signal Electronics Department at Agilent
Laboratories, which develops integrated circuits for instrumentation and
communication applications. He has published numerous papers on high-speed
A/D conversion and A/D testing, and was co-author of the paper "A 1-GHz
6-bit ADC system," which received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits for 1987-1988. He received the Best Evening
Panel Award from the 1988 International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC) and the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence from ISSCC
in 1992. He has served as Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits, and from 1994 to 1997 and was Secretary to the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Council. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001.
Wanda
Gass received her BSEE degree in 1978 from Rice University and her MS
in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 1980. She has been with
Texas Instruments since 1980 where she is a TI Fellow. She was a key contributor
in the development of the first programmable DSP at TI, for which she has
been granted three critical patents. During her career she has done work
in VLSI design, software for speech codecs, multiprocessor system design
for speech recognition and image processing, silicon compilers for DSP functions,
video compression hardware design, GSM systems, and W-CDMA hardware and
software implementations. Currently she defines the instruction set architecture
and low-power strategy for high-performance DSP processors.Ms. Gass is a Senior Member of IEEE. She is an active member in the Signal Processing Society and the Solid-State Circuits Society. In the SSCS she has served as Member (1995-1999) and Chair (2000-2002), ISSCC Technical Committee, Signal Processing Sub-committee (1995-1999). In the SPS she has served as Member (1990-1996) and Chair (1997-1999), Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee. She was instrumental in facilitating the Signal Processing System Workshops from 1997 to 2002. She has also served as editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (Kluwer Academic).
Teresa
H. Meng received her PhD in EECS from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1988. She joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering
Department at Stanford University in 1988, where she is now a professor
and the Robert Bosch Faculty Fellow. Awards and honors for her research
work at Stanford include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an
ONR Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award, a best paper
award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Eli Jury Award from U.C.
Berkeley, and awards from AT&T, TRW, and other industry and academic
organizations.In 1998, Dr. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications Inc., which provides the core technology for ubiquitous, high-performance wireless communications. Dr. Meng was named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring in 2001, and Innovator of the Year by MIT Sloan School of BA in 2002. She returned to Stanford in 2000 to continue her research and teaching at the University.
Dr. Meng's current research activities include high-frequency linear PA design, wide-band wireless architectures, and bio-signal processing circuits. She has given many plenary talks at major conferences in the areas of signal processing and wireless communications. She is the author of one book, numerous book chapters, and over 200 technical articles in journals and conferences. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Jan
Sevenhans is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Academy of Alcatel
Bell in Antwerpen, Belgium, and an IEEE Fellow recognized for "contributions
to solid-state telecom transceiver integration."He serves as European Chair of the International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) held each February in San Francisco. In 2002 he chaired the workshop "Analog telecom access circuits and concepts" held in conjunction with the ISSCC.
He was born in 1955 and completed his Masters in 1979 at the KULeuven in Belgium. His PhD in 1984 at the same university focused on the subject of CCD imagers for facsimile applications. Since 1987 he has worked at Alcatel Bell on analog and RF circuit design for telecom applications in GSM, ADSL, ISDN, POTs, and on CMOS and bipolar silicon technology. He has filed many patents and published many articles in IEEE conferences and journals.
Since the late eighties he has been involved with many European research projects on GSM in Jessi, Medea, Medea+, RACE, IST, and ESPRIT, for example Girafe - Gigahertz Radio front Ends, in addition to Medea A203, SODERA, and SPACE. He also acted as reviewer and/or evaluator of several European projects over the past ten years.
