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Dr. Bob Brodersen received his PhD from MIT in 1972 and was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments for three years. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 where he is now the John Whinnery Chair professor and Co-Scientific Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Professor Brodersen's research is focused in the areas of low power design and wireless communications and the CAD tools necessary to support these activities.He has won best paper awards for a number of jounal and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications. In 1982 he became a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award for Outsanding Emerging Technology in 1983. He received Technical Achievement Awards in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986, from the Signal Processing Society in 1991 and in 1999 from the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobile Computing. Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden in 1999 and in 2000 he received the Millennium Award from the Circuits and Systems Society and the Golden Jubilee Award from the IEEE. | 