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
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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. |