Jan M. Rabaey Explained

Jan M. Rabaey
Birth Date:15 August 1955
Birth Place:Veurne, Belgium
Nationality:American
Field:Digital Logic,
Integrated Circuits,
Sensor Networks,
Brain-Computer Interface
Work Institution:University of California, Berkeley
Alma Mater:Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Occupation:CTO, imec
Doctoral Students:Brian Otis, Will Biederman, Rikky Muller
Known For:low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing
Prizes:IEEE Life Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium

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 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.

Rabaey 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, PicoRadios, the Swarm, 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. He is the primary author of the “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

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]

External links

Notes and References

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