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Dr. Eric R. Fossum CEO Siimpel
Dr. Eric R. Fossum is the CEO of Siimpel. Prior to joining Siimpel, Dr. Fossum was the CEO of Photobit Technology Corporation in Pasadena, CA. He co-founded Photobit in 1995 with associates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to commercialize CMOS image sensor technology. Photobit was acquired by memory-chip manufacturer Micron Technology, Inc. in 2001, and was one of the leading suppliers of high performance CMOS image sensors for camera-phones, web cameras, automotive applications and high-speed motion-capture cameras. Before the formation of Photobit, Dr. Fossum managed image sensor and focal-plane technology R&D at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and also served as Senior Research Scientist. He was the inventor of the low-power, high quality CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip technology that has enabled camera-phones and swallowable camera-pills. CMOS active pixel sensors are also used in high performance digital SLR cameras.
Dr. Fossum holds over 80 US patents. He has received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award, and medals from the Photographic Society of America and the Royal Photographic Society in the UK. He was inducted into the US Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1999 and is Fellow member of the IEEE. After receiving his B.S. from Trinity College in 1979, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984, Dr. Fossum was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University from 1984 to 1990. He has published over 235 technical papers and has served as adviser to 13 Ph.D.s. He received Yale's Becton Prize in 1984 and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1986. He is the founder of the biannual IEEE Workshop on CCDs and Advanced Image Sensors. He holds concurrent appointments as Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, and as a member of the Board of Advisors for Canesta. | 