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Biographical
Sketch
Kenneth
Pedrotti received his BS in
Engineering Physics from University
of California Berkeley in 1978. He received his MS in
electrical engineering specializing in quantum electronics, in 1979
and Ph.D. in electrical engineering,
from Stanford University working
at the Ginzton Laboratory
on problems in non-linear optics and atomic physics.
Dr. Pedrotti joined
the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University
of California, Santa Cruz in Sept. 2000. His current projects include,
sensor interfaces for data array sensing and processing, low power VLSI
clock distribution, low phase noise oscillators and next generation
optical data storage systems He teaches courses in advanced
analog integrated circuits, analog
electronics, introduction
to electronics, modern
electronic technology and "how it works", semiconductor
devices and optical
fiber communications.
Prior to joining
the faculty he was with the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, CA and with what is now Mindspeed
Technologies Inc. in Newbury Park, CA serving in a variety of positions
in both research and management. There he worked on the development
of infrared imaging array detector and readout chips, CMOS visible imagers,
high-bandwidth WDM components and switching systems, performed early
investigations into all-optical networks and developed monolithic optoelectronic
integrated receivers with world record performance. Additionally he
has worked on AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) circuits
for optical transmitters, receivers, switches, clock recovery and data
regeneration, as well as MOCVD crystal growth of quantum structures
in III-V compound semiconductors for optoelectronic devices, including
lasers, detectors and modulators.
Additionally
Dr. Pedrotti has worked as a technical consultant for a number of electronics
and optoelectronics companies as well as serves as a legal consultant
in the capacity of both consulting and expert witness. He served on the scientific advisory board of Opticomp
Corp.
Dr. Pedrotti is a member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has served on
the board of Governors of the IEEE Solid
State Circuit Society from 1995-1999. He was a recipient of an R&D 100 Award for the NAM, a multiwavelength optical network access
module judged the top telecommunication product and one of the top 100
R&D Products of 1996 He is a member of
IEEE
Solid State Circuits Society, IEEE
Lasers and Electrooptics Society (LEOS), IEEE
Electron Devices Society, Optical
Society of America (OSA) and the International
Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).
Ken
resides in Soquel, CA with his wife and family. He enjoys mountain
biking, skiing, sailing and mountaineering when he can find the time
and clock and antique radio repair when he can't. He is a member of
the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and a supporter of the Southern California Antique Radio Society and the California Historical Radio Society. He has also worked as a professional magician but now limits himself to lecture performances or baffling the neighborhood children.
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Education
 Stanford
University, Stanford, CA.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1985
University of California, Berkeley, CA.
M.S. in quantum Electronics, 1979
University of
California, Berkeley, CA.
B.S. in Engineering Physics, 1978
Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa
Employment
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2000 to date
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Rockwell Science
Center , Thousand Oaks, CA
1998-2000
Manager Mixed Signal VLSI
Rockwell Semiconductor
Systems , Newbury Park, CA
1997-1998 Principal Engineer
Hitachi Central Research Laboratories, Kokubunji, Japan
1988 Visiting Researcher
Rockwell Science
Center , Thousand Oaks, CA
1985-1997 Member of Technical Staff
Hewlett Packard
Optoelectronics Division, Palo Alto, CA
1978
Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratories , Berkeley, CA
1976-1979
Professional
Activities
1998-2000 IEEE Solid State
Circuit Society Education Committee
1998-1999 IEEE Solid
State Circuit Society Board of Governors
1995-1997 IEEE LEOS
representative to the IEEE Solid State Circuits Council
1994 Chair and editor
of SPIE High-Speed Electronics and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
conference Los Angeles Jan. 22-28 1994
National Association
of Watch and Clock Collectors
Additional
Information
Best Paper Award 21st International Conference on VLSI Design, 4th-8th January, 2008
UCSC Teaching Excellence Award 2006
R&D 100 Award for one of the top 100 R&D Products of 1995
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