Jan M. Rabaey

Jan M. Rabaey (born August 15, 1955 in Veurne, Belgium) is an academic and engineer who is Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School of in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as the CTO of the Systems Technology Co-Optimization division at imec, Belgium.

Jan M. Rabaey
Born (1955-08-15) August 15, 1955
Veurne, Belgium
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
Occupation(s)CTO, imec
Known forlow power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing
AwardsIEEE Life Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium
Scientific career
FieldsDigital Logic,
Integrated Circuits,
Sensor Networks,
Brain-Computer Interface
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral studentsBrian Otis, Will Biederman, Rikky Muller

He has made major contributions to a number of fields including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. Some of the systems he helped envision include the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad), PicoRadios (IoT avant-la-lettre), the Swarm (IoT on steroids), Brain-Machine interfaces and the Human Intranet. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation distributed systems, as well as the exploration of the interaction between the cyber and the biological worlds. Furthermore, he is the primary author of the influential “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” textbook that has served to educate hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium.

Biography

After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1983, he joined 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. He was the founding co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Swarm Lab. He was director of the DARPA/SRC co-funded multi-university GSRC and MuSyC research centers, and served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. In 2019, he became Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School at Berkeley. That same year, he also became the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of imec, Belgium.

Awards and honors

Awards

Honorary degrees

Rabaey has received honorary doctorates from Lund University (2012),[1] University of Antwerp (2017),[2][3] Tampere Technical University Finland (2017),[4] and Hasselt University (2021).[5] He also received a Grand Professorship at the Technical University Dresden in Germany in 2014.[6]

Books
  • Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective
  • Low Power Design Essentials
  • Ultra-Low Power Wireless Technologies for Sensor Networks

Personal life

Rabaey is married to Kathelijn, who has served as accountant and financial controller of a number of Bay Area companies and start-up's.[7]

References
  1. "A clothing ethicist, a coastal researcher and a professor of electronics are appointed honorary doctors". www.lth.se. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. "Diane von Furstenberg among UAntwerp honorary doctorates - Flanders Today". www.flanderstoday.eu. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  3. "Honorary degrees 2017 - University of Antwerp - University of Antwerp". www.uantwerpen.be. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  4. Birhaner, De (16 January 2017). "Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia to receive Honorary Doctorate from his former College in Finland". debirhan.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  5. "De 'Vlaamse vader' van de iPad". www.standaard.be. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/files/Downloads/2014_10_cfaed_Broschuere_web_download.pdf
  7. "About — Jan M. Rabaey". Jan M. Rabaey. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
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