Special Talk

All you need to know to write a winning ISSCC paper and give a smashingly good presentation Jan Van Der Spiegel (University of Pennsylvania)

Jan Van Der Spiegel received his Masters and Ph.D. 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 a professor in 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, micro-sensor technology, and analog-to-digital converters. He is the author of over 190 journal and conference papers and holds 4 patents. Van der Spiegel is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Education Chair and the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Term Chair. He also received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award. Van der Spiegel was the program chair of the 2007 International Solid-State Circuit Conference and has also served on the Technology Directions and the Executive Committees of the ISSCC. He is currently the chair of the Student Research Preview committee and is the Chapters Chairs coordinator of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).
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