Dr. Rick Carley

Biography

L. Richard Carley joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 and has been a major contributor to the research and educational missions of the department. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Carley received his Bachelor of Science (1976), Master of Science (1978), and Ph.D. (1984) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a key member of the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) and has served as the associate director of electronic subsystems. Carley is an internationally known researcher who works in the fields of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of analog circuit synthesis, high-speed analog signal processing circuits, RF front-end circuit design, and low power low voltage digital logic. He has co-authored textbooks and more than 200 book chapters and papers in professional journals and conferences, and he has received awards including the Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference. Additionally, Carley is an inventor or co-inventor on 23 patents and has dedicated his career to education, having graduated 40 M.S. students and 30 Ph.D. students who are now pursuing careers in academia and industry. In recognition of his contributions to research and teaching, Carley was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1997. He has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II) from 1993 to 1996. In 1997, he co-founded Neolinear, a Pittsburgh-based high-tech company specializing in analog CAD synthesis tools, which was acquired by Cadence in 2004.

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