Anantha Chandrakasan
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; director, Microsystems Technology Lab
areas of expertise: electrical engineering, biomedical electronics, microsystems, digital integrated circuits, ultra-low power implementation of digital integrated systems, algorithms and protocols for wireless communication, system level computer-aided design tools, digital signal processing, portable multimedia devices, design methodologies for emerging technologies, design of digital integrated circuits and systems, wireless systems, circuits techniques for deep sub-micron technologies
Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990 and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with MIT, where he is currently the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering.
He was a co-recipient of several awards, including the 1993 IEEE Communications Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE Electron Devices Society's 1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best Paper in an EDS publication during 1997, the 1999 DAC Design Contest Award, the 2004 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, the 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence and the ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper (2007, 2008, 2009). He received the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award.
His research interests include low-power digital integrated circuit design, wireless microsensors, ultra-wideband radios and emerging technologies.
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