Biography

Sorin P. Voinigescu graduated in 1984 with a M.Sc. degree in Electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1994. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the design and fabrication of VLSI compatible Si/SiGe p-MOSFET's. Between 1984 and 1991 he worked in R&D and in academia in Bucharest, designing and lecturing on microwave semiconductor devices and microwave integrated circuits.

Between 1994 and 2000 he was with NORTEL NETWORKS in Ottawa where he was responsible for projects in high-frequency characterization and statistical scalable compact model development for Si, SiGe and III-V heterostructure devices. He spearheaded the modeling infrastructure development for, and was involved in the prototyping of wireless and broadband fiber optics transceivers in emerging semiconductor technologies.

In April 2000 he co-founded Quake Technologies Inc. an Ottawa-area fabless semiconductor company focussing on the design and fabrication of 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s Physical Layer ICs. Quake was acquired by AMCC in 2006. As Chief Technology Officer at Quake he coordinated the access and characterization of Si, SiGe, GaAs and InP technologies, high-frequency package design and electro-optical interface integrated circuits development.

In September 2002 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto where he is a full Professor. His research and teaching interests focus on the modelling and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor technologies and on design techniques and circuit topologies for mm-wave DSP, radio, radar and imaging ICs operating in the 50-GHz to 200-GHz range.

Dr. Voinigescu has authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed and invited technical papers spanning the simulation, modeling, design, and fabrication of GaAs- InP- and Si-based heterostructure devices and circuits, and holds three US patents in these areas. He is the co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2001 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and at the 2005 IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the TPC of the Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium, BCTM and SiRF Meeting. His graduate students have won Best Student Paper Awards at the 2004 VLSI Circuits Symposium, the 2006 SiRF Meeting, the 2006 RFIC Symposium and 2006 Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting.