Speaker Profiles


Dr. Sanu Mathew
Intel Corporation

Dr. Sanu Mathew received the B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996 and 1999 respectively. His PhD research focused on asynchronous circuit design. He is currently with the High-Performance Circuits Research group at Intel Corporation's Microprocessor Research Labs in Hillsboro, Oregon. His research interests include high-performance and low power arithmetic circuit techniques.



Mr. Hector Sanchez
Motorola Inc.

Héctor Sánchez is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the Chief Engineer in charge of the Advanced Circuits Design Center (AC/DC) of the Networking and Computing Systems Group of  Motorola, a group dedicated to the development of PLL, I/O, and future technology. Over the last 13.5 years he has worked as a custom circuit designer with Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector in Austin, Texas working on the development of PowerPC microprocessors. He received a BS and ME degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. His professional activities include: phase-locked loop circuit design, clock generation, clock distribution, high-speed analog-digital circuits, design for low-power, microprocessor thermal management, temperature sensor circuit design, I/O buffer design, microprocessor chip integration, and technology definition for sub-100nm technologies. He has authored more than 17 papers and has 8 patents granted and several pending. He is a member of the Digital sub-committee at the IEEE ISSCC (2001-2004) and a member of the IEEE International SOI Conference Committee (2002-2004). He is a member of IEEE.



Dr Ramalingam Sridhar
University at Buffalo(SUNY), Buffalo, NY

Professor Ramalingam Sridhar is with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Buffalo, (SUNY).  His research interests are in Deep submicron VLSI Design, Wave Pipelining, Clocking and Synchronization, Low power DSP and memories, high level power minimization and wireless, secure, embedded system designs.  He got his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington in 1987.  He was the Chair of the CAS Technical committee on VLSI Systems and Applications from 2000-2002 and is a member of CAS TC VSA, Multimedia systems and applications, communication circuits and Nano, Giga TC. He served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, II and IEEE Transactions on VLSI, currently in the editorial board of  the Journal of Circuit, Systems and Computers, andIEEE Circuits & Devices magazine.  He has served as the General Chair of ASIC/SoC Conference in 1999and has served in  committees of numerous conferences in varying research areas. He was selected as the Teacher of the Year in Engineering by Tau Beta Pi (1991-92) and was awarded a Lilly Teaching Fellowship (1988-89)



Dr. Jaime Ramirez-Angulo
New Mexico State University
Jaime Ramírez-Angulo is currently Klipsch Professor, IEEE fellow, and Director of the Mixed-Signal VLSI lab at the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University ( Las Cruces, New Mexico), USA. He received a degree in Communications and Electronic Engineering (Professional degree), a M.S.E.E. from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City and a Dr.-Ing degree form the University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany in 1974, 1976 and 1982 respectively. He was professor at the National Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE) and at Texas A&M University. His research is related to various aspects of design and test of analog and mixed-signal Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits. He has made numerous contributions to this field which have been reported in over two hundred forty publications in the most prestigious journals and conferences in analog circuit design. He has two high technology patents and has held numerous invited and keynote presentations. He has been a consultant to Texas Instruments, NASA-ACE and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, Sandia National Labs, Engineering Foundation, Texas Instruments and Agilent. He received the prestigious URC University Research Council for exceptional achievements in creative scholarly activities and the Westhafer award for Excellence in Research and Creativity in March and May 2002 respectively. The Westhafer award is the highest faculty award for research merits at New Mexico State University. On October 2002 he was named Paul W. Klipsch Distinguished Professor and is currently and IEEE distinguished lecturer.