Dr. E. Charbon

EPFL, Switzerland

Edoardo Charbon (M’92) received the Diploma from ETH-Zurich, the M.S. from UCSD, and the Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley, all in EECS, in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively. His doctoral work focused on performance-directed constraint-based analog and mixed-signal physical design automation and accelerated substrate extraction techniques. From 1995 to 2000, he was with Cadence Design Systems, where he was the architect of the company’s initiative for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc. as its Chief Architect, leading the development of wireless 3D CMOS image sensors. Since November 2002, he has been a member of the Faculty of EPFL, where he has founded the Quantum Architecture Group (AQUA), a research group devoted to the field of single photon imaging and ultra low-power wireless embedded systems. He has consulted for numerous organizations, including Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, Cadence, and the Carlyle Group. He has published over 70 articles in technical journals and conference proceedings and two books, and he holds seven patents. His research interests include 3D micro-imaging, bio-imaging, intellectual property protection, substrate modeling and characterization, and micromachined sensor design.

Dr. Charbon has served as Guest Editor of the TRANSACTIONS ON CAD OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS and of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and he is a Member of the Technical Committee of CICC and ESSCIRC.