SSCS Elects Five AdCom Members

Five new members will join the IEEE SSCS Administrative Committee when it meets 15 February 2004. The SSCS membership elected Bryan Ackland, Gary Baldwin, Tom Lee, Jan M. Rabaey, and Jan Van der Spiegel last fall. The AdCom is responsible for overseeing conferences, publications, and other potential technical activities within the Society’s field of interest. Each AdCom member serves a three-year term. Terms are staggered so there are always some experienced members and some new members. The Nominating Committee puts together a ballot of candidates each summer. A member can petition to be included on the ballot. See details online at sscs.org/nomelec.htm.

Bryan Ackland received his BSc in physics from Flinders University, Australia, in 1972 and his BE and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1975 and 1979, respectively.

In 1978 he joined Bell Laboratories as a member of the technical staff in the Image Processing and Display Research Department, where he worked on MULGA —the first successful symbolic layout and compaction tool suite. In 1986 he was appointed director of the DSP and VLSI Systems Research Department where he led research programs in video coding VLSI, multiprocessor DSP architectures, low-power DSP, high-speed optical transceivers, and CMOS imaging.

In 2000 he was appointed vice president of Communications Systems Research at Agere, where he led a team of seventy in a broad range of research topics. He is currently vice president of Advanced Technology at Agere Systems with research interests in novel hardware and software architectures for network and signal processing.

Dr. Ackland is the author of over sixty conference and journal publications and holds eleven U.S. patents. 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 IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1987 to 1994. He served on the Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design from 1988 to 1994 and has been a member of the CICC Program Committee since 2001. He has been a member of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Executive Committee since 1997 and a member of the ISSCC Executive Committee since 2001. He served on the IEEE SCCS Nominating Committee from 1998 to 1999.

Dr. Ackland was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1992 for contributions to the design of custom integrated circuits for signal-processing applications. He became a Bell Laboratories Fellow in 1993 for leadership in VLSI tools and circuits.

Gary L. Baldwin received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1966, 1967, and 1970, respectively, all from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Baldwin was an acting assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, during 1969 and 1970. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, from 1970 to 1978. He joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, in 1978. He was director of the Solid-State Technology Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard from 1987 until 1999. Since November 1999 he has been at the University of California, Berkeley, as the executive director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. As of February 2003, he is the executive director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). He is also an associate dean for Industrial Relations in the College of Engineering at Berkeley.

Dr. Baldwin was a member of the Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1974 to 1982 and served as the secretary of the conference from 1977 to 1980. He was an associate editor and editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1977 to 1982. He also served as secretary of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1982 to 1984, was vice president of the council from 1984 to 1986, and was its president from 1986 to 1988. He was the program co-chair of the International Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Technology in Beijing, China, in 1995, and is a member of the AdCom of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

Dr. Baldwin is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Tom Lee received his degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, escaping with an ScD in 1990. He then joined Analog Devices where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992 he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, California, where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500-megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs.

He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha, and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been with the electrical engineering faculty at Stanford University, where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS.

Lee has twice received the Best Paper Award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a Best Student Paper at ISSCC, received the Best Paper Award at CICC, and was awarded a Packard Foundation Fellowship in 1998.

He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Societies. He holds twenty-five U.S. patents, authored The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (Cambridge Press, 1998), and co-authored three books on RF circuit design. Lee cofounded Matrix Semiconductor in 1998 and maintains an active interest in chamber music as a violinist and tenor.

Jan M. Rabaey received his EE and PhD degrees in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. From 1983 to 1985 he was at the University of California, Berkeley, as a visiting research engineer. From 1985 to1987 he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium, and in 1987 he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pavia (Italy), Waseda University (Japan), and Victoria University (Australia).

From 1999 until 2002 he was the associate chair of the EECS Department at Berkeley. He is currently the scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of the MARCO GigaScale Systems Research Center (GSRC).

Professor Rabaey received numerous scientific awards, including the 1985 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Best Paper Award (CAS), the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1994 Signal-Processing Society Senior Award, and the 2002 ISSCC Jack Raper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and has served as associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits and the TODAES ACM Journal. He is past chair of the VLSI Signal Processing Technical Committee of the Signal Processing Society, and chaired the International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and the IFIP Conference on Mobile Computing in 1996. From 1994 until 2002 he served on the Executive Committee of the Design Automation Conference, of which he was both technical program chair and general chair.

His current research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems. This includes the analysis and optimization of communication algorithms and networking protocols, the study of low-energy implementation architectures and circuits, and the supporting design automation environments.

Jan Van der Spiegel received his Masters and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 where he is currently the interim chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and the director of the Center for Sensor Technologies. His research interests are in mixed-mode VLSI design, biologically based sensors and sensory information processing systems, microsensor technology, and analog-to-digital converters. He is the author of over 150 journal and conference papers and holds four patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2002) and the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Education Chair, and the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Term Chair. He received the Christian and Mary Lindback Foundation Award and the S. Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching.

He has served on several IEEE program committees and is currently the program secretary of the International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC). He has also served on the Technology Directions Committee and the Executive Committee of the ISSCC. He has been the chapters chairs coordinator of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) for the past six years. Under his leadership, the SSCS chapters have grown from a few to over forty worldwide. He is also a member of the SSCS Membership Committee.