Chief Scientific Advisor

Yannis Tsividis designed and made a fully integrated MOS operational amplifier and demonstrated its use in PCM codecs at ISSCC '76. That work was promptly adopted by the industry and resulted in the first large-volume MOS mixed-signal products. Since then, he has completed pioneering work in areas ranging from fully-integrated analog filters to MOS transistor modeling, with wide industrial impact. He is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and has held positions at Motorola, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received several awards, including the IEEE's W. R. G. Baker Award, the IEEE CAS Society's Darlington and Guillemin-Cauer Awards, the 2003 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference L. Winner Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2007 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. His latest book, with Colin Mc Andrew, is the updated edition of his classic "Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor" (Oxford University Press, 2011). He holds twenty-nine patents in, overall, ten countries. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Papananos holds the Dipl. Eng. and PhD degrees from the National Technical University of Athens, together with an MSEE degree from Columbia University. Dr. Papananos is currently Professor and Director of the Electronics Laboratory at NTUA. He has consulted with numerous electronics companies in both Europe and the US and is a co-founder of Theta S.A. His main areas of research interest are analog IC design and EDA tools for IC design, with emphasis in silicon RFIC design. Dr. Papananos has authored and co-authored over 70 technical papers and three books on RFIC and Active Analog Filter design. He is also a senior member of the IEEE, serving on a number of their committees as a member or chairman. He is also a reviewer for numerous IEEE Journals and Research Foundations worldwide. He holds 9 US Patents plus another two pending. Dr. Papananos is currently a recipient of a Marie-Curie scholarship at Infineon Technologies Austria AG.