Jan M. Rabaey
Is professor emeritus and professor in the graduate school at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department of the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as the CTO of the Systems Technology Co-Optimization division at imec, Belgium.
He has made major contributions to a number of fields including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. Some of the systems he helped envision include the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad), PicoNets and PicoRadios (IoT avant-la-lettre), the Swarm (IoT on steroids), Brain-Machine interfaces and the Human Intranet. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation distributed systems, as well as the exploration of the interaction between the cyber and the biological worlds. Furthermore, he is the primary author of the influential “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” textbook that has served to educate hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.