Prof. Bob Meyer received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree (First Class Honors) in 1963 from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in 1965 he was awarded the degree of Master of Engineering Science (Honors) for his thesis entitled ‘Evaluation of noise parameters of bipolar and field-effect transistors.’ In 1968 he was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Melbourne for his thesis entitled ‘Signal and noise performance of transistor mixers.’ He was awarded the J.J Thomson Premium for 1968 from the Institution of Electrical Engineers for research on noise in transistor mixers. From January to September, 1968, Professor Meyer was employed as an Assistant Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Since September, 1968, he has been employed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is now National Semiconductor Distinguished Professor Emeritus. His current research interests are integrated-circuit design and device fabrication, with particular emphasis on nonlinear phenomena and noise performance. He is co-author of the book Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, (Wiley, 1977, 1984, 1993, 2001), editor of the book Integrated Circuit Operational Amplifiers, (IEEE Press, 1978), and co-editor of the book Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications, (IEEE Press, 1999). He has acted as a consultant on electronic circuit design for numerous companies in the electronics industry. He is a past President of the Solid-State Circuits Council of the IEEE. In 1973, 1976 and 1987 he was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and from 1976 to 1982 he was an Associate Editor of the Journal. He is a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. In 1975 he was a Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and in 1996 and 2003, he was a Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University, New York. In 2003, he received the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for distinguished graduate teaching.
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. From 1984 to 2008 he was head of the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design, which counts about sixty members and which is mainly active in research projects with industry and in teaching worldwide.
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 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 and was President of the Solid-State Circuits Society in 2008/2009. He is a life-fellow of the IEEE.
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 sixty-five PhD theses in these fields. He has authored and coauthored more than 620 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and fifteen books, among which “Analog design essentials” (Springer 2008).
Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc. (with Honors) degree from Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1981 to 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in 1989. His research interests are in CMOS RF design, data high-speed analog integrated circuit design, conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.
Dr. Abidi was the Program Secretary for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990, and General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid-state Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits.
