At its September meeting, the Society’s Administrative Committee elected Willy Sansen to serve as President beginning 1 January 2008. Bernhard Boser was elected to serve as Vice-President beside Sansen. After serving two years, the Vice-President is typically elected President by the AdCom.  

Sansen will be the first non-US based officer of the Society, whose membership comprises equal numbers of US and non-US based residents. The President and Vice-President must have been previously elected to AdCom positions.

Willy Sansen has received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1967 and the PhD degree in Electronics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. In 1972 he was appointed by the National Fund of Scientific Research (Belgium) at the ESAT laboratory of the K.U.Leuven, where he has been a full professor since 1980. During the period 1984-1990 he was the head of the Electrical Engineering Department. Since 1984 he has headed the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design, which counts about sixty members and which is mainly active in research projects with industry. He is a fellow of the IEEE and is a member of several boards of directors. In 1978 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, in 1981 at the EPFL Lausanne, in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1994 at the T.H. Ulm and in 2004 at Infineon, Villach. Prof.Sansen is a member of several editorial and program committees of journals and conferences. He is cofounder and organizer of the workshops on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) in Europe. He is a member of the executive and program committees of the IEEE ISSCC conference. He was program chair of the ISSCC-2002 conference. He is now in charge of the educational activities of the ISSCC conference and its Long-Range Planning Committee. He has been involved in design automation and in numerous analogue integrated circuit designs for telecommunications, consumer electronics, medical applications and sensors. He has been supervisor of over fiftyfive PhD theses in these fields. He has authored and coauthored fifteen books, among which the PPT based book on “Analog Design Essentials”. He has published more than 580 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Bernhard E. Boser received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985 and 1988. From 1988 he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Adaptive Systems Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1992 he joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley where he also serves as a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. Dr. Boser's research is in the area of analog and mixed signal circuits, with special emphasis on analog-digital interface circuits and micromechanical sensors and actuators. He has served on the program committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers Conference, the VLSI Symposium, and the Sensor and Actuator Workshop. He was the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is currently the Chair of the Publications Committee of the Solid-State Circuits Society. Dr. Boser is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the Chief Scientist of SiTime, a fabless semiconductor company he co-founded in 2004. In 2005/06 he was a visiting professon at the Institute of Micro- and Nanosystems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.