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Prof. Willy Sansen
Prof. Willy Sansen (Ph.D, Leuven, Belgium). He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven (Belgium) 1967. His PhD degree in Electronics was obtained from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. In 1972 he was appointed by the National Fund of Scientific Research (Belgium) at the ESAT laboratory of the K.U. Leuven, where he has been a full professor since 1980. During the period 1984-1990 he was the head of the Electrical Engineering Department. Since 1984 he is head of the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design. He is a fellow of the IEEE and is a member of several boards of directors. Willy Sansen was appointed visiting professor at Stanford University in 1978, in 1981 at the EPFL Lausanne, in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , in 1994 at the Technical University of Ulm and in 2004 at Infineon, Villach.
Prof.Sansen is a member of several editorial and program committees of journals and conferences. He is cofounder and organizer of the workshops on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) in Europe. He is a member of the executive and program committees of the IEEE ISSCC conference. He was program chair of the ISSCC-2002 conference. He is now vice-president of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

He has been involved in design automation and in numerous analogue integrated circuit designs for telecommunications, consumer electronics, medical applications and sensors. He has been supervisor of over fiftyfive PhD theses in these fields. He has authored and coauthored thirteen books and more than 550 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Prof Sansen has his own consulting firm, Sansen Consult.