Mihai Adrian Ionescu - Biography#

Mihai Adrian Ionescu is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He holds a BS and MS in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University ‘Politehnica’ Bucharest, Romania, and two PhDs in Microelectronics and the Physics of Semiconductors from UPB and the National Polytechnic Institute Grenoble, respectively.

Currently, he serves as the Director of EPFL’s Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory. Professor Ionescu has pioneered transformative technologies in the fields of energy-efficient steep slope and phase-change devices, integrated biosensors, and RF MEMS resonators, with a focus on energy-efficient Edge AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. His research output includes over 600 publications in prestigious scientific journals and conferences, earning him widespread recognition within the scientific community.

His expertise has garnered numerous accolades, including the IEEE Technical Field Cledo Brunetti Award (2024) for his pioneering contributions to energy-efficient steep slope devices and technologies, the André Blondel Medal (2009), the IBM Faculty Award (2013), and election as a Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (2015). Moreover, he received the ERC Advanced Grant (2016), the ERC Synergy Grant (2023), and the EDL IEEE George Smith Award (2017). He is an IEEE Fellow, served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and contributed to the PUB Committee of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the ICT Sub-Committee of IEEE European Public Policy. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Proceedings of IEEE.

Professor Ionescu has led a range of innovative European projects, including the FET Flagship Pilot "Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life," involving 66 academic and industrial institutions. This project, which was a finalist in the EU FET Flagship competition, laid the foundation for the concept of Edge AI. Recently, he coordinated the Digipredict FET Proactive project, which integrates advances in digital biomarkers, organ-on-chip (OoC) technologies, and AI to create a system for early prediction of complications in sepsis patients, offering a novel tool for detecting the onset of inflammatory diseases. As an advocate for bridging academia with industry, Professor Ionescu has been instrumental in shaping the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors and holds over 25 patents in the United States and Europe. As the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Xsensio SA, a Swiss company at the forefront of nanotechnology in healthcare, he continues to develop translational solutions for Digital Twins in healthcare, leveraging multi-modal semiconducting sensors in wearable devices to advance personalized medicine.