Focus Period lund 2027
Research fellow, Professor
imec & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Piet Wambacq received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined imec, Leuven, where he is currently Fellow, working on analog/RF/mm-wave IC design in various technologies for wireless applications.
Since 2000, he is a Professor with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. He has authored or coauthored six books and more than 350 articles in edited books, international journals and conferences. He has been a member of the Program Committee of ISSCC from 2012 to 2020 with the role of RF Subcommittee Chair from 2016 to 2020. He has been vice-chair of the program committee of ISSCC 2022 and chair of the program committee of ISSCC 2023. He has been a member of the Program Committee of the ESSCIRC and DATE conferences. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—PART 1 from 2002 to 2004. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test Conference (DATE) in 2002 and 2005, the EOS/ESD Symposium in 2004, the Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper at ISSCC 2015, and the Best Paper Award at the NEWCAS 2019 Conference. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society of IEEE from 2016 to 2018.