Profile

Georges G. E. Gielen received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 1990, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant and a Visiting Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Since 1991, he has been in the MICAS research group with the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, where he currently is a Full Professor. His research interests include the design and design automation (CAD) of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, including data converters and sensor readout circuits. He is a frequently invited speaker/lecturer and coordinator/partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects. He has (co-)authored 10 books and more than 600 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2002, and received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg career award in 2015. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering.