Dr. Chris Rudell

Biography

Jacques Rudell joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department as an assistant professor in January 2009. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1989 to 1991, Rudell worked as an IC Designer and Project Manager at Delco Electronics, focusing on bipolar analog circuits for automotive applications. He was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley from 2000 to 2001 while holding consulting positions at Silicon Valley firms. In early 2002, he joined Berkana Wireless (now Qualcomm) as an Analog/RF IC Design Engineer and subsequently became the Design Manager of the Advanced IC Development Group. From 2005 to 2008, Rudell worked in the Advanced Radio Technology Group at Intel, concentrating on RF transceiver circuits, systems, and advanced silicon processes. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work related to mmWave CMOS IC design and has served on the technical program committee for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference and the RFIC steering committee. Rudell was the General Chair in 2013 and served as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a member of the technical program committee for the IEEE European Solid-State Circuit Conference.

Research Interests