Eric R. Fossum

Expertise:

· Image sensor R&D (CCD, CMOS). Primary inventor of CMOS active-pixel image sensor and camera-on-a-chip technology.

· University education - teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels and student development. Successful at grants and funding.

· Executive management of high-tech startup companies from inception to acquisition. CEO of 2 start-up companies.

· Government funded R&D leadership and management. NASA/JPL and SBIR program management.

· Patent expert consultation. Holds over 120 US patents and consultation on half dozen other patent infringement cases.

Education:

1984 Ph.D. Engineering and Applied Science (EE) Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1980 M.S. Engineering and Applied Science (AP) Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1979 B.S. Physics and Engineering Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Primary Employment:

2008- Consultant

Samsung Electronics, Semiconductor R&D Center, South Korea

2005-2007 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Siimpel Corporation, Arcadia & Pasadena, California

2003-2005 Consultant

Various organizations, see below.

2002-2003 Senior Micron Fellow

Micron Imaging, Micron Technology Inc., Pasadena, California

2001 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Photobit Technology Corporation, Pasadena, California

2000 Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board

Photobit Corporation, Pasadena, California

1996-2000 Chief Scientist / Technology Division Director and Chairman of the Board

Photobit Corporation, Pasadena, California

1990-1996 Technical Assistant Section Manager

for Image Sensor and Focal Plane Technology

Observational Systems Division

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

1989-1990 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,

Columbia University, New York, New York

1984-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,

Columbia University, New York, New York

1983 Acting Instructor

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

198l-1983 Member of the Technical Staff

(Summers) Hughes Aircraft Company Missile Systems Group, Canoga Park, California

1979-1984 Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1978-1979 Systems Analyst/Programmer

(Summers) American Management Systems, Rosslyn, Virginia

1977-1979 Systems Analyst/Programmer

(Part time) Trinity College, Admissions & Financial Aid Department, Hartford, Connecticut

1973-1977 Systems Analyst/Programmer

(Part time) Calpurnia Associates, Avon, Connecticut

Other Concurrent Appointments:

2007- President

ImageSensors Incorporated – A California Non-Profit, Public Benefit Corporation

2006- Founding Member

Active Pixel Associates LLC

2005-2008 Board of Advisors

Canesta Corporation, San Jose, CA

2004- Consultant (Business, Technical, and Patent-Related)

Jones Day (04), McDermott, Will & Emery (07), Canesta(04, 07), SiWave (04), Forza (07), Samsung (08-), Weil, Gotshal & Manges (09)

2001- General Partner

Winnibit LP

2001-2007 Adjunct (Full) Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

2001-2001 Director

Photobit Corporation and Photobit Technology Corporation

1995-2000 Director and Chairman of the Board

Photobit Corporation

1996-1999 Adjunct (Full) Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles California

1994-1996 Senior Research Scientist

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

1990-1994 Adjunct (Associate) Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York

1989-1990 Distinguished Visiting Scientist

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1985-1996 Consultant

IBM Research (85-90), Kulite Semiconductor (87-88), JPL (88-90), Lockheed (89), GE (89), Honeywell (90), NATO/AGARD-NDRE (91),Synaptics (91), Photobit (95-96)

Awards and Fellowships:

2009 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award (link)

2004 Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship (link)

2004 Trinity College Alumni Achievement Award (link)

2003 Photographic Society of America Progress Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Photography (link)

1999 NASA/DoD Space Technology Hall of Fame (link)

1998 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

1997 Trinity College Century of Engineering Citation for Scientific and Technical Innovation

1996 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

1996 NASA Group Achievement Award

1995,2002 NASA Space Act Monetary Award

1992 JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence

1989 Columbia-NCR Stakeholder Partnership Innovation Award

1988-1990 Analog Devices Career Development Award

1986-1990 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award

1984-1985 IBM Faculty Development Award

1984 Yale University Henry Prentiss Becton Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science

1983 Hughes Aircraft Company Division Invention Award

1981-1984 Howard Hughes Graduate Fellowship

1980-1981 IBM Graduate Fellowship

1979-1980 Yale University Fellowship

1979 Trinity College Honors in Physics; President's Fellow in Physics; Senior Physics Prize

1970 Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout and Order of the Arrow

Memberships:

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, Fellow)

Professional Activities:

Founder and Organizing Committee

2009 International Image Sensor Workshop, Bergen, Norway

2007 International Image Sensor Workshop (& Local Arrangements Chair), Ogunquit, Maine USA

2005 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Karuizawa, Japan

2003 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Bavaria, Germany

2001 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors (Chair), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA

1999 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Karuizawa, Japan

1997 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Brugge, Belgium

1996 SPIE Aerospace Sensing/Infrared Imaging - IR Readout Electronics III (Chair), Orlando, Florida, USA

1995 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors (Chair) Dana Point, California, USA

1994 SPIE Aerospace Sensing/Infrared Imaging - IR Readout Electronics II (Chair), Orlando, Florida, USA

1993 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors (Co-Chair), Waterloo, Canada

1992 SPIE Aerospace Sensing/Infrared Imaging - IR Readout Electronics (Chair), Orlando, Florida, USA

1991 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices (Co-Chair), Waterloo, Canada

1990 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Solid-State Image Sensors (Chair), Harriman, New York, USA

1986 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices (Chair), Harriman, New York, USA

Co-Chairman

1991 SPIE Infrared Sensors: Detectors, Electronics and Signal Processing

1990 SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging

Editor

2009 Guest Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on Solid-State Image Sensors, November 2009

2003 Guest Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on Solid-State Image Sensors, January 2003

1997-1999 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

1997 Guest Editor Special Issue of IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits on the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (Images Sensors and Displays), December 1997

1997 Guest Editor-in-Chief Special Issue of IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices on Solid-State Image Sensors, October 1997

Program Committees

1998 8th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors

1997-1998 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

1996 IEEE/ISSCC Workshop on CMOS Imaging Technology

1994 International CMOS Camera Workshop

1992 NASA/SDIO Innovative Long-wavelength Infrared Detector Workshop

1991-1993 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)

Detectors, Sensors and Displays Subcommittee ('93 Chair)

1987-1989 IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialist's Conference (SISC)

Organizer and Instructor

1991 NATO/AGARD/NDRE Short Course on Advanced Image Sensors

1988 Columbia University MSL Short Course on Charge-Coupled Devices

1986 IBM-TV Device Microfabrication (a full semester course)

Panels

2007 IEEE Senior Member Selection Panel

1997 IEEE ISSCC Evening Discussion Session (Moderator)

1996 DARPA/ETO Wearables in 2005 Workshop

1996 NASA Origins Technology Workshop

1996 IEEE ISSCC Evening Panel Discussion, Photons-to-Bits

1995 Optoelectronics Industry Dev. Assoc. - Image Sensors Workshop (Chair)

1994 National Science Foundation - Optical Science and Engineering Workshop

1994 SPIE Smart Focal Plane Array Workshop

1992 NASA Microtechnologies and Appl. to Space Systems Workshop

1991 NASA Planetary Instruments Workshop (Panel Co-chair)

1991 IEEE Device Research Symposium - Charge Storage Devices

1991 NASA AstroTech 21 Workshop (Panel Chair)

1990 National Academy of Sciences - NSF Graduate Fellowships Selection

Technical Groups

1991-1995 NASA OSAT Sensor Working Group (Code X)

1991-1992 AIAA Sensor Systems Technical Committee

1990-1994 SPIE Electronic Imaging Working Group

Ph.D. Dissertation Research Supervision:

S.S. Todorov, Interactions of Low-Energy Oxygen Ions with Silicon Surfaces (1987)

R.E. Colbeth,GaAs Charge-Coupled Device Circuits for High Speed Signal Processing(1989)

R.W. Ade,Optical Interconnection by Vertical Coupling of Single-Mode Fibers to Semiconductors (1990).

E-S. Eid, Charge-Coupled Device Focal-Plane Processors (1990)

J-I. Song, Resistive-Gate AlGaAs/GaAs Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Charge-Coupled Devices (1990).

S.E. Kemeny, CCD Focal-Plane Image Reorganization Processors (1991)

D.V. Rossi, InGaAs Resistive Gate Charge-Coupled Devices (1992)

B. Pain, Low Noise CMOS Circuits for On-Chip Signal Processing in Focal-Plane Arrays (1993)

S. Mendis, CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensors and On-Chip Signal Processing (1994)

Z. Zhou, On-Focal Plane Signal Processing for CMOS Active Pixel Sensors (1997)

M. Wang, High Dynamic Range CMOS Active Pixel Sensors (2001)

A. K.-B. Cho, Micropower, Microsized CMOS Camera-on-a-Chip (2001).

S. Ay, Design Issues and Performance of Large Format Scientific CMOS Image Sensors, (2004).

Courses Taught:

Semiconductor Devices and Lab (Junior-level and Graduate Level)

Principles of Device Microfabrication and Lab (Senior/Graduate Level)

Quantum Mechanics for Engineers (Senior Level)

Electromagnetics (Senior Level)

Imaging Devices (Graduate Level)

Publications and Inventions:

Total publications (not incl. patents): >240

Please see publications list for full details.

H-index (E.R. Fossum): 34

U.S. Patents granted: >120

Please see patents list for full details.

Volunteer Activities:

2008 Director/Secretary, Home Owner’s Association Board of Directors

2002-2004 Trinity College Board of Fellows

1999-2005 American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) Coach and Referee

1998- Trinity College Engineering Advisory Council (Chair 2000-2002)

1997- Talcott Mountain Science Center Science Advisory Council

1995-1998 Boston Museum of Science, Science-by-Mail Volunteer Scientist

1991-1995 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mentoring Program

1988-1990 Columbia University Minority Double Discovery Center Board