!!Georges Gielen - Biography
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Georges G.E. GIELEN received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 1990, he was appointed as postdoctoral research assistant and visiting lecturer at the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991 to 1993, he was a postdoc of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research at the ESAT-MICAS division of KU Leuven. In 1993, he was appointed assistant professor at KU Leuven, where he promoted to Full Professor in 2000. From 2007 till 2012 he was the Head of the Microelectronics and Sensors (MICAS) research division. In August 2012 he became the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT). He also served as Chair of the Leuven ICT (LICT) research center, and was the PI coordinator of the Leuven CHIPS Center of Excellence on microelectronic IC design. From August 2013 till July 2017 he was appointed as Vice-Rector of KU Leuven responsible for the group Science, Engineering & Technology. In 2018 he was visiting professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. From 2020 to 2024 he served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven.\\
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His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation, including modeling, simulation, optimization and synthesis as well as testing. He has graduated over 55 PhDs so far. He is a frequently invited speaker and serves/served as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is coordinator/partner of several academic and industrial research projects in the above fields, including having awarded the ERC Advanced Grant AnalogCreate. He has (co-)authored 14 monograph books and more than 800 publications in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He regularly is a member of the Program Committees of international conferences (DAC, ICCAD, ISCAS, DATE, ESSCIRC, etc.), and served as General Chair of the DATE conference in 2006, of ICCAD in 2007, of ESSCIRC in Leuven in 2017 and of ETS in 2021. He also served as Chair of the EDAA association. He regularly serves as member of editorial boards of international journals (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Proceedings of the IEEE, Now Publishers, Springer International Journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Elsevier Integration).\\
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He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and an elected member of the both the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium in the class of Technical Sciences and of the Academia Europaea in the class of Engineering. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering, and he received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015, the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020, as well as the EDAA Achievement Award in 2021.\\
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