Dr. Charles G. Sodini
LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Charlie Sodini's research interests are in technology intensive integrated circuit and systems design, with application toward sensory interface electronics and wireless communication emphasizing analog signal processing and RF integrated circuits.

He has acted as consultant for many top technology companies in the U.S., and in 1999 he co-founded SMaL Camera Technologies, which develops digital imaging solutions for a variety of business and consumer markets, including ultra-slim digital still cameras, automotive vision systems, and camera-enabled mobile devices (such as cell phones).

Throughout his 25-year career at MIT, Dr. Sodini has published extensively, winning best paper awards from ISSCC, in addition to the Darlington Award from the Circuits and Systems Society. He and Roger Howe co-authored the widely used textbook Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach.

He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1995 for contributions to the development of over-sampled A/D converters, DRAM devices and circuits, and integrated circuits process technology. Charlie has been very visible in professional leadership roles, serving as President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society, as well as General Chair of the IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium and the International Electron Devices Meeting.

Charlie is a graduate of Purdue University and holds Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Drew Peck
Partner and Cofounder                                                                                             Steel Horse Advisors

Drew Peck is a partner and cofounder of Steel Horse Advisors, a consulting firm to the semiconductor industry specializing in finance, mergers and acquisitions, and emerging technologies. Prior to founding Steel Horse, he was a partner at Crimson Investments, a private equity firm specializing in technology investing in Asia.

From 1985 to and 2002, he was a Vice-President and Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette and Cowen and Company, leading their respective semiconductor research teams. During that period, he was named to the Institutional Investor All-Star Research Team for 11 consecutive years, as well as winning The Wall Street Journal’s “Best On The Street” poll on multiple occasions.

From 1977 to 1985, Mr. Peck served on the research staff of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he conducted research in the fields of quantum electronics, far-infrared spectroscopy, and submillimeter astronomy. He has a BA in Physics from Brandeis University and MSEE and MS Management degrees from MIT.

Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan
Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Eng. Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990, and 1994 respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he is currently the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering.

He was a co-recipient of several awards including the 1993 IEEE Communications Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE Electron Devices Society's 1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best Paper in an EDS publication during 1997, the1999 DAC Student Design Contest Award, the first place in the 2004 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award (operational category), the 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence and the 2007 ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper. He held the Analog Devices Career Development Chair from 1994 to 1997. He received the NSF Career Development award in 1995, the IBM Faculty Development award in 1995 and the National Semiconductor Faculty Development award in 1996 and 1997.

His research interests include micro-power digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, wireless microsensor system design, ultra-wideband radios, and emerging technologies. He is a co-author of Low Power Digital CMOS Design (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), Digital Integrated Circuits (Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2003, 2nd edition), and Sub-threshold Design for Ultra-Low Power Systems (Springer 2006). He is also a co-editor of Low Power CMOS Design (IEEE Press, 1998), Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits (IEEE Press, 2000), and Leakage in Nanometer CMOS Technologies (Springer, 2005).

He has served as a technical program co-chair for the 1997 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), VLSI Design '98, and the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. He was the Signal Processing Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 1999-2001, the Program Vice-Chair for ISSCC 2002, the Program Chair for ISSCC 2003, and the Technology Directions Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 2004-2008. He is the Technology Directions Chair for ISSCC 2009. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1998 to 2001. He served on SSCS AdCom from 2000 to 2007 and he was the meetings committee chair from 2004 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the Director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Labs.