IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Winter 2018 - 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

tEChnoloGY Editor
Open

assoCiatE Editor for thE far East
Zhihua Wang
zhihua@tsinghua.edu.cn

assoCiatE Editor for
EuroPE and afriCa

Marcel Pelgrom
pelgromconsult@kpnmail.nl

assoCiatE Editor

Ali Sheikholeslami
ali@eecg.utoronto.ca

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

nEws Editor

Abira Sengupta
abira.sengupta@ieee.org

MaGaZinE adVisorY CoMMittEE

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

IEEE solId-statE
cIrcuIts socIEty
Executive Director, Michael Kelly
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Administrator, Lauren Caruso
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Terms to 31 Dec. 2019

SSC AdminiStrAtive Committee

region 8 representative

President, Bram Nauta
University of Twente
Vice-President, Ken O
UT Dallas
Secretary, Emre Ayranci
Peregrine Semiconductor
Treasurer, Wanda Gass
Design, Connect, Create
Past President, Jan Van der Spiegel
University of Pennsylvania

other representatives

Representative to Sensors Council
Hadi Heidari
Representative to CAS from SSCS
Shanthi Pavan
Representative to SSCS from CAS
Andrei Vladimirescu
Representatives to EDA Council
Bryan Ackland, Vivek Tiwari
Representatives to ISSCC
Anantha Chandrakasan
Representative to CICC
Ramesh Hijani
Representative to IEEE YP Program
Emre Ayranci
Representatives to Nanotechnology Council
Ian Young
Representative to Technical Committee on RFID
Jeffrey Walling
Representative to Engineering Technology
Management Society
Mike Beunder
Representative to Biometrics Council
Bruce Hecht
Representative to Internet of Things (IoT)
Andreia Cathelin
Representative to IEEE 5G
Aarno Pärssinen

elected AdCom members at Large

Terms to 31 Dec. 2018
Mike Beunder, Hideto Hidaka, Bezhad Razavi,
Ali Sheikholeslami, Zhihua Wang

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Terms to 31 Dec. 2020

Edith Beigne, Azita Emami, Daniel Friedman,
Payam Heydari, Vivienne Sze

region 7 representative
Ali Sheikholeslami
Bram Nauta

region 10 representative
Hideto Hidaka

Chairs of Standing Committees

Awards-John J. Corcoran
Chapters-Stefan Rusu
Education-Ali Sheikholeslami
Meetings-Bill Bowhill
Membership-Patrick Yue
Nominations-Jan Van der Spiegel
Publications-John Long

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Editorial sErViCEs dirECtor
Kevin Lisankie

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The International Solid-State Circuits Conference,
known as ISSCC, is the flagship conference of
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. This issue
looks back at the conference's beginnings.
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