Vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

(2005 - ) Stanford University

Professor (2005 - )
Department of Electrical Engineering

(1987 - 2005) University of California at Berkeley

Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professorship (2004 - 2005 )
Chair, Electrical Engineering Division (2002 - 2005)
Associate Chair, EECS Dept. (2002 - 2005 )
Professor (1993 - 2005)
Associate Professor (1989 - 1993)
Assistant Professor (1987 - 1989)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Professor (1997 - 2005)
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director (1993 - 2005)
Associate Director (1987 - 1993)
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center

(1985 - 1987): Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

(1984 - 1985): Carnegie-Mellon University

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Design and fabrication of microsensors and microactuators; development of merged CMOS-microstructure processes; biomimetic nanofabrication processes.


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EDUCATION:

University of California at Berkeley: Ph.D., December 1984, M.S., December 1981.

Engineering Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, B.S., May 1979.

Major: physics, applied option.


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HONORS:

U.S. National Academy of Engineering: 2005.

Citation: "for contributions to the development of microelectromechanical systems in processes, devices and systems."

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (with R. S. Muller): 1998

Citation: "for leadership and pioneering contributions to the field of microelectromechanical systems."

Fellow, IEEE: 1996.

Citation: "for seminal contributions to microfabrication technologies, devices, and micro-electromechanical systems."

Analog Devices Career Development Professorship, 1988 1991

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1986

IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984 1986

David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize and Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1984


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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

Head of Undergraduate Affairs: Dept. of EECS, 1992 1993.

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Reform Committee: Dept. of EECS, 1992 1993.

Member, Strategic Planning Committee: Dept. of EECS, 1993 - 1995

College of Engineering, 1994 - 1995

Co-Chair, Curriculum Revision Committee: Dept. of EECS, 1997 1998.

Associate Chair, Dept. of EECS, 2002 - 2005


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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Chair: MEMS Technical Committee, IEEE Electron Devices Society, 1998 - 2001

Trustee: Transducer Research Foundation, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio, 1995

Technical Program Chair: 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems, Boston, Mass., June 8-12, 2003

General Chair: Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 1996.

Technical Program Chair: Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 1994.

General Co-Chair: 3rd IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Workshop, Napa Valley, California, February 1990.

Technical Program Co-Chair: IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 1989.


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MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Microsystem Technology, 1994 -

Sensors and Actuators A, 1988 -

IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 1998 - 2002


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ADVISORY BOARD AND CONSULTING RELATIONSHIPS

ACLARA BioSciences, Mountain View, Calif., 1996 - 2001

Analog Devices, Cambridge, Mass., 1989 -

Ardesta LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001 -

DaimlerChrysler, Circle Member Group, Stuttgart, Germany, 1997 - 2001

Discera, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001 - 2004

Gerson Lehrman Group, Council of Communications and Technology Advisors, 2000 - 2004

Medcam, Bellevue, Wash., 1998 - 1999

MEMSIC, Andover, Mass., 1999 - 2004

MicroReactor Systems/Gener8, Mt. View, Calif., 2003 -

Motion Sense, Fremont, Calif., 2000 - 2002

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., 1996 -

Siimpel, Arcadia, Calif., 2000 -

Silicon Clocks, Berkeley, Calif., 2004 - (Co-Founder and Chief Scientist)

Silicon Light Machines, Sunnyvale, Calif., 1995-98

U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 2004 -


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