# Jan M. Rabaey

### Research Areas

- Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS)
- Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA)
- Power and Energy (ENE)
- Integrated Circuits (INC)
- Signal Processing (SP)
- Computer architecture

### Research Centers

- Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
- Center for Neural Engineering & Prostheses (CNEP)
- CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
- SWARM Lab

## Biography

Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has been the the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice.

Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation integrated wireless systems over a broad range of applications, as well as exploring the interaction between the cyber and the biological world.

He is the recipient of major awards, amongst which the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, and has received honoray doctorates from Lund (Sweden), Antwerp (Belgium) and Tampere (Finland). He has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.

## Selected Publications

- D. Seo, R. Neely, K. Shen, S. U, E. Alon, J. M. Rabaey, J. M. Carmena, and M. Maharbiz, "Wireless recording in the peripheral nervous system with ultrasonic neural dust," Neuron, vol. 91, pp. 529-539, April 2016.
- Y. H. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "An ultra-low-power injection locked transmitter for wireless sensor networks," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1740-1748, Aug. 2006.
- J. van Greunen, Y. Markovsky, C. R. Baker, J. M. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, and A. Wolisz, "ZUMA: A platform for smart-home environments -- The case for infrastructure," in Proc. 2nd IET Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Environments (IE 2006), Vol. 1, Stevenage, UK: IET Press, 2006, pp. 257-266.
- M. Sheets, F. Burghardt, T. Karalar, J. Ammer, Y. H. Chee, and J. M. Rabaey, "A power-managed protocol processor for wireless sensor networks," in 2006 Symp. on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 212-213.
- D. Petrovic, K. Ramchandran, and J. M. Rabaey, "Overcoming untuned radios in wireless networks with network coding," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 2649-2657, June 2006.
- Y. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "A 89-µW 1.9-GHz CMOs oscillator using FBAR resonator," in RFIC Digest of Papers, 2005, pp. 123-126.
- W. Weber, J. M. Rabaey, and E. Aarts, Eds., Ambient Intelligence, New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2005.
- Y. Chee, A. Niknejad, and J. M. Rabaey, "A class A/B low power amplifier for wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of ISCAS, 2004, pp. IV 409-412.
- S. Roundy, P. K. Wright, and J. M. Rabaey, Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer, 2003.
- B. P. Otis and J. M. Rabaey, "A 300-muW 1.9-GHz CMOS oscillator utilizing micromachined resonators," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1271-1274, July 2003.
- J. M. Rabaey, A. P. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, 2 ed., Prentice Hall Electronics and VLSI Series, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, 2003.
- C. Savarese, J. M. Rabaey, and K. Langendoen, "Robust positioning algorithms for distributed ad-hoc wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conf., C. S. Ellis, Ed., Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2002, pp. 317-327.
- J. M. Rabaey, J. Ammer, T. Karalar, S. Li, B. Otis, M. Sheets, and T. Tuan, "PicoRadios for wireless sensor networks: The next challenge in ultra-low power design," in 2002 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. Digest of Technical Papers, Vol. 45, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 200-201.
- H. Zhang, V. Prabhu, V. George, M. Wan, M. Benes, A. Abnous, and J. M. Rabaey, "A 1V heterogeneous reconfigurable processor IC for baseband wireless applications," in 2000 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. Digest of Technical Papers, Vol. 43, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2000, pp. 68-69.
- J. M. Rabaey, "Reconfigurable processing: The solution to low-power programmable DSP," in Proc. 1997 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '97), Vol. 1, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp. 275-278.
- J. M. Rabaey and M. Pedram, Eds., Low Power Design Methodologies, The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 336, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer, 1995.
- E. Brewer, T. Burd, F. Burghardt, A. Burstein, R. Doering, K. Lutz, S. Narayansaramy, T. Pering, B. Richards, T. Truman, R. H. Katz, J. M. Rabaey, and R. W. Brodersen, "Design of wireless portable systems," in Proc. 40th IEEE Computer Society Intl. Conf. (COMPCON '95): Technologies for the Information Superhighway, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995, pp. 169-178.
- P. Landman and J. M. Rabaey, "Black-box capacitance models for architectural power analysis," in Proc. 1994 Intl. Workshop on Low Power Design, 1994, pp. 165-170.
- P. D. Hoang and J. M. Rabaey, "Scheduling of DSP programs onto multiprocessors for maximum throughput," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 2225-2235, June 1993.
- A. P. Chandrakasan, M. Potkonjak, J. M. Rabaey, and R. W. Brodersen, "HYPER-LP: A system for power minimization using architectural transformations," in IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD '92). Digest of Technical Papers, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992, pp. 300-303.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- SRC Aristotle Award, 2017
- Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Elected Member, 2011
- SIA University Research Award, 2010
- EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009
- A. Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award, 2009
- IEEE CASS Mac E. Van Valkenburg Award, 2008
- SSCS ISSCC Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper, 2002
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1995
- SPS Senior (Best Paper) Award, 1994
- IEEE CASS Transactions on Computer Aided Design Best Paper Award, 1985