Yannis Tsividis

Yannis Tsividis received his B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972, 1973, and 1976, respectively.

 

He is Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. He has worked at Motorola Semiconductor and AT&T Bell Laboratories, and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the National Technical University of Athens. 

 

The research of Professor Tsividis has concentrated on mixed analog-digital integrated circuits for telecommunications and other applications. He has dealt with this goal at the device, circuit, system, and computer simulation level. He demonstrated the first fully-integrated MOS operational amplifier in 1976, and proposed detailed design techniques for MOS analog circuits, which were widely adopted and led to the first massively produced mixed-signal integrated circuits. The software program Switcap, which was developed by his group, was the standard in the industry and was used in the design of hundreds of integrated circuits for telecommunications, biomedical electronics, and consumer electronics. Techniques in integrated analog filters, which he co-invented, have  been in very large volume production and have been a dominant technique for many years in the implementation of high-speed computer hard disc drives and other equipment. At the device level, benchmarks proposed by him and his group for testing advanced MOS device models have been widely used and have influenced the state of the art in MOS transistor modeling. His recent work involves analog and hybrid computing and continuous-time digital signal processing and data acquisition.

 

He has written three books and has edited three more. His book Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor is a widely used standard, and has been translated into Chinese and Farsi.

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Professor Tsividis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of IEEE. He has received the 1984 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication, and is recipient or co-recipient of best paper awards from the European Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1986, the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2003, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (Darlington Award, 1987; Guillemin-Cauer Award, 1998 and 2008). He has received Columbia’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2005, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award in 2010. He has named Professor Honoris Causa by the University of Patras, Greece, in 2012, and received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota in 2013. He received the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in 2007.