Rate My Professor Georges Gielen

Georges Gielen is Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven, and part-time Research Director at imec. He received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1990, he was a research assistant at KU Leuven's ESAT-MICAS laboratory. In 1990, he served as a postdoctoral research assistant and visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Returning to KU Leuven from 1991 to 1993 as a postdoctoral researcher, he was appointed tenure research associate and assistant professor in 1993, promoted to associate professor in 1995, and advanced to full professor. Gielen served as Vice-Rector for the Group of Science, Engineering and Technology from 2013 to 2017, Chair of the ESAT Department from 2020 to 2024, and visiting professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University in 2018.

His research interests encompass the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, CAD tools and design automation including modeling, simulation, optimization, synthesis, and testing; mixed-signal circuits and data converters; hardware-efficient AI and machine learning; biomedical circuits and sensor interfaces; and neuromorphic systems. He has co-authored 14 monograph books and more than 800 publications in international journals and conferences, including "Computer-aided design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits" (Proceedings of the IEEE, 2000), "Symbolic analysis for automated design of analog integrated circuits" (Kluwer, 1991), and recent works on machine learning-based analog circuit sizing and neuromorphic sensor interfaces. Gielen has graduated over 55 PhD students, coordinated projects like the ERC Advanced Grant AnalogCreate, and delivered numerous keynote lectures. His honors include IEEE Fellow since 2002, election to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and Academia Europaea, IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2015), Charles Desoer Award (2020), and EDAA Achievement Award (2021).