AVLSIWS 2004

2004 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop
13th - 15th October, 2004
University of Macau
Macao SAR, China.

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Keynotes speakers
Prof. José Franca
President and CEO
Chipidea Microelectronica, SA

TagusPark - Porto Salvo
Phone: (+351) 21 033 63 01
Fax: (+351) 21 033 63 96
Address: Edificio Inovação IV, Sala 733
2740-257 Porto Salvo
Portugal
e-mail: jfranca@chipidea.com

 

 

Biography

Prof. José E. Franca (IEEE Fellow) graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 1978. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., in1985, and the Agregado degree from IST in 1992.

He was Secretary of State of Education of the Portuguese Government in 1991-1992, and he is currently full professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST. He has had Visiting Professorship appointments with the University of Aveiro, the University of Macau, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1987 he founded the Integrated Circuits and System Group and later, in 1994, the IST Centre of Microsystems of which he is a Director. In March 1997 he co-founded and became the President and CEO of CHIPIDEA Microelectronics, the first Portuguese engineering company devoted to the design of advanced mixed-signal integrated circuit products.

Dr. Franca has actively participated in over 30 R&D projects in the area of mixed analog-digital integrated circuits and systems, particularly in the context of pan-European cooperative efforts involving both Universities and companies. He has also had direct research contracts with some leading European companies (British Telecom, Nokia Mobile Phones, Siemens, Austria Mikro Systeme, Atmel ES2, among others). The main results of his research have been published in about 60 journal papers, 200 conference papers, and several research books. He is co-author of four patents on switched-capacitor networks.

Dr. Franca has served in the Steering Boards of several ESPRIT funded initiatives, has represented the Portuguese Ministry of Defence in the European EUCLID program, and he is currently a member of the Steering Committee of ESSCIRC/ESSDERC and of the Technical European Program of the ISSCC and also serves on Technical Program Committee of several other international conferences. He was the General Chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems. He was the Vice General Chair of DATE 2001 (Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference), Munich, Germany, and the General Chair of DATE 2002, Paris, France. He is the General Chair of ESSCIRC/RSSDERC 2003, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September, 2003.

He has also participated in several evaluation and review panels of international projects as an expert to the European Commission, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Kluwer Journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in the term 1997/99, and is a member of the Executive Council of the European Circuits Society for the term 1998/2001. He was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal of the Circuits and Systems Society, and has been a Distinguish Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society since 1999.