IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Winter 2015 - 2

IEEE solId-statE
cIrcuIts magazInE
Editor-in-ChiEf

R. Jacob (Jake) Baker
rjacobbaker@gmail.com

tutorials Editor

Willy Sansen
willy.sansen@esat.kuleuven.be

assoCiatE Editor for thE far East
Patrick Yue
eepatrick@ust.hk

Senior Administrator, Katherine Olstein
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
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Administrator, Lauren Caruso
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
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Bram Nauta

region 10 representative

SSC AdminiStrAtive Committee

President, Bill Bidermann, Zeebo, Inc.

Secretary, Mike Beunder

Marcel Pelgrom
pelgromconsult@kpnmail.nl

assoCiatE Editor

Ali Sheikholeslami
ali@eecg.utoronto.ca

Terms to 31 Dec. 2017
Andreia Cathelin, Pavan Hanumolu,
Kofi Makinwa, Roland Thewes, Patrick Yue

region 8 representative

Vice-President, Jan Van der Spiegel
University of Pennsylvania

assoCiatE Editor for
EuroPE and afriCa

Terms to 31 Dec. 2016
R. Jacob (Jake) Baker, Franz Dielacher,
Peter R. Kinget, Bram Nauta, Stefan Rusu

Treasurer, Shekhar Borkar
Past President, Rakesh Kumar
Technology Connexions, Inc.
Poway, California, USA

other representatives

Hideto Hidaka

Chairs of Standing Committees

Awards-John J. Corcoran
Chapters-Jan Van der Spiegel
Education-Domine Leenaerts
Meetings-Ken O
Membership-Tzi-Dar Chiueh
Nominations-Rakesh Kumar
Publications-Glenn Gulak

IEEE PErIodIcals/
magazInEs dEPartmEnt

Behzad Razavi
razavi@ee.ucla.edu
Tom Lee
tomlee@ee.stanford.edu

Representative to Sensors Council
Darrin Young
Representative to CAS from SSCS
Tony Chan Carusone
Representative to SSCS from CAS
Andrei Vladimirescu

nEws Editor

Representatives to EDA Council
Bryan Ackland, Vivek Tiwari

assistant art dirECtor

Representatives to ISSCC
Bryan Ackland, Jan Van der Spiegel
Representative to CICC
Tom Andre
Representative to IEEE GOLD Program
Emre Ayranci
Representatives to Nanotechnology Council
Elad Alon, Ian Young
Representative to Technical Committee on RFID
Shahriar Mirabbasi
Representative to Engineering Technology
Management Council
Mike Beunder
Representative to Biometrics Council
Bruce Hecht

ProduCtion Coordinator

ContriButinG Editor

Katherine Olstein
k.olstein@ieee.org

MaGaZinE adVisorY CoMMittEE

Chair: Rakesh Kumar. Jake Baker, Bill Bidermann, Glenn Gulak, Erik Heijne, Hideto Hidaka,
Richard Jaeger, Michael Kelly, Mary Lanzerotti,
Tom Lee, Katherine Olstein, Marcel Pelgrom,
Willy Sansen, Ali Sheikholeslami, Lewis Terman,
Alice Wang, Patrick Yue

IEEE solId-statE
cIrcuIts socIEty
Executive Director, Michael Kelly
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
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elected AdCom members at Large
Terms to 31 Dec. 2015
Arya Behzad, Shekhar Borkar, Michael H.
Perrott, Trudy Stetzler, William Redman-White

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sEnior ManaGinG Editor
Geraldine Krolin-Taylor

sEnior art dirECtor
Janet Dudar

Gail A. Schnitzer

Theresa L. Smith

staff dirECtor, PuBlishinG oPErations
Fran Zappulla

Editorial dirECtor
Dawn M. Melley

ProduCtion dirECtor
Peter M. Tuohy

adVErtisinG ProduCtion ManaGEr
Felicia Spagnoli

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The 2015 ISSCC Program Committee (from left): Jae-Youl Lee,
Tsung-Hsien Lin, David Stoppa, Joo Sun Choi, Steve Kosonocky,
John Trnka, Dan Friedman, Alison Burdett, Aarno Parssinen,
Anantha Chandrakasan, Hoi-Jun Yoo, Stefan Rusu, Kevin Zhang,
Makoto Ikeda, Andreia Cathelin, Boris Murmann, Laura Fujino,
Axel Thomsen, and Eugenio Cantatore.

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