Short bio:
Georges Gielen is Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven and (part-time) Research Director at imec. He received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. Since 1993 till now, he is professor at KU Leuven, where he currently is Full Professor. From August 2013 until July 2017 he served as Vice-Rector for the Group of Sciences, Engineering and Technology. In 2018 he was visiting professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. From 2020 to 2024 he served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven.
Research activities:
He is proud to have graduated more than 55 PhDs thus far, with young researchers coming from all around the world. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation, including modeling, simulation, optimization and synthesis as well as testing. He is a frequently invited/keynote speaker/lecturer and coordinator/partner of several (academic and industrial) research projects in this area, including his ERC Advanced Grant AnalogCreate. Till now, he has (co-)authored 14 monograph books and more than 800 publications in edited book chapters, international journals and conference proceedings.
Professional leadership:
He has provided countless services to the IC design and EDA communities. He served in the Board of Governors and as President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, as well as Vice-President Awards and Strategy of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. He served twice as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society and currently of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He is associate editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE as well as for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. He served/serves as TPC member of many conferences including ESSCIRC, DAC, DATE, ICCAD, ISCAS, SMACD, etc., and was the General Chair of the IEEE/ACM DATE conference in 2006, the IEEE/ACM ICCAD conference in 2007, the IEEE ESSCIRC conference in 2017 and the (online) IEEE ETS conference in 2021. He also served as Chair of the EDAA organisation and in the Board of Directors of several start-up companies.
Awards:
He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2002, and has been elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium in the class of Technical Sciences as well as of the Academia Europaea. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015 and the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020, as well as the EDAA Achievement Award in 2021.
A. Safi .... G. Gielen, “Neuromorphic near-sensor computing: from event-based sensing to edge learning,” IEEE Micro, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 88-95, 2022.
Rutenbar, Gielen, Roychowdhury, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 640-669, 2007.
Bo Liu, Kingfu Zhang, Georges Gielen, "A Gaussian process surrogate model assisted evolutionary algorithm for medium scale expensive optimization problems," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol.18, No.2, pp.180-192, 2014 (DOI:10.1109/TEVC.2013.2248012).
Bo Liu, Dixian Zhao, Patrick Reynaert, Georges Gielen, “GASPAD: a general and efficient mm-wave integrated circuit synthesis method based on surrogate model assisted evolutionary algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 169-182, February 2014 (DOI:10.1109/TCAD.2013.2284109).
Elie Maricau, Georges Gielen, “Computer-aided analog circuit design for reliability in nanometer CMOS,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol.1, No.1, pp.50-58, 2011. (DOI:10.1109/JETCAS.2011.2135470).
Anthony Coyette, Baris Esen, Nektar Xama, Georges Gielen, Wim Dobbelaere, Ronny Vanhooren, "ADAGE: automated DfT-assisted generation of test stimuli for mixed-signal integrated circuits," IEEE Design & Test, 2018 (DOI:10.1109/MDAT.2018.2799800).
Georges Gielen, Wim Dobbelaere, Ronny Vanhooren, Anthony Coyette, Baris Esen, “Design and test of analog circuits towards sub-ppm level,” proc. International Test Conference (ITC), 2014 (invited keynote) (DOI: 10.1109/TEST.2014.7035330).
Nektar Xama, Martin Andraud, …, Anthony Coyette, Georges Gielen, “Machine learning-based defect coverage boosting of analog circuits under measurement variations,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), accepted for publication, 2020.
Georges Gielen et al, “Time-based sensor interface circuits in CMOS and carbon nanotube technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 577-586, 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2016.2525098).
Carolina Lopez, … Georges Gielen, “An implantable 455-active-electrode 52-channel CMOS neural probe,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 248-261, 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2284347).
Pieter De Wit, Georges Gielen, “Degradation-resilient design of a self-healing xDSL line driver in 90 nm CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 1757-1767, July 2012 (DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2191328).
