Robert W. Brodersen

He received his BS in Mathematics and Electronics Enginnering from the California State Polytechnic College in Pomona, California and then from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massacusettts his MS, Engineers and in 1972 his PhD in Electrical Engineering. Then he was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments for 3 years. Following that, he joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty of the University of California at Berkeley,where he is now holds the John Whinnery Professor Chair in Electrical Engineering. In addition to teaching, he is involved in research involving new applications of integrated circuits, which is focused in the areas of low power design and wireless communications; and the algorithms, architectures and CAD tools necessary to support these activities. 

He has won best paper awards for a number of journal and conference papers in
the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications,including in 1979 the W.G. Baker award for the best IEEE publication in all areas. In 1982 he became a Fellow of the IEEE and in 1983, he was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris Liebmann award. In 1986 he received the Technical Achievement awards in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and in 1991 from the Signal Processing Society. In 1988 he was elected to be member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 1994, he was made the first holder of the John Whinnery Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1996 he was the winner of the IEEE Solid State Circuits award for "Contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing". In 1997 he was the recipient of the Technical Achievement award from the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobile Computing, in 1999 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in Sweden and in 2000 he received a Millennium award from the Circuits and Systems Society and the Golden Jubilee award from the IEEE.

In 1998 he was instrumental in founding the Berkeley Wireless Research Center which is a research effort involving 10 companies, 60-70 students and 6 faculty involved in all aspects of the design of highly integrated CMOS wireless systems. He now is a co-Scientific Director of this center. The research is performed at an off campus location adjacent to the University.

He was in involved in the founding of Atheros Communications in 1998 and is a member of a number of Technical Advisory boards for companies in the area of wireless communications, CAD tools and integrated circuits.