Georges Gielen

Affiliation:

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Phone:

+32-16-321047

Biography:

Georges G.E. GIELEN received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1990, he was appointed as a research assistant by the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research for carrying out his Ph.D. research in the ESAT-MICAS laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1990, he was appointed as a postdoctoral research assistant and visiting lecturer at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991 to 1993, he was a postdoctoral research assistant of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research at the ESAT-MICAS laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1993, he was appointed as a tenure research associate of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and at the same time as an assistant professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1995 he promoted to associate professor at the same university.

His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation (modeling, simulation and symbolic analysis, analog synthesis, analog layout generation, analog and mixed-signal testing). He is coordinator or partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area. He has authored or coauthored one book and more than 100 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He regularly is a member of the Program Committees of international conferences (ICCAD, ED&TC...), he has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Kluwer international journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Georges Gielen is heading the Analog and Mixed-Signal Design Methodologies subgroup of the ESAT-MICAS division. Together with Prof. Willy Sansen research is conducted on design methodologies and the development of related algorithms and computer-aided design (CAD) tools to be used by analog and mixed analog-digital designers. The goals of these activities are : 1) to increase the productivity of analog designers (shorten the time to market), and 2) to improve the quality and optimality of analog and mixed-signal IC designs (e.g. power reduction, but also avoiding expensive redesign runs).