1991 - 1995

PhD in EECS, University of California, Berkeley, US

1989 - 1991

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, US

1983 - 1988

Diploma in Elektrotechnik, ETH, Zürich, CH

2015 - now

Director and Chair, Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab, EPF Lausanne, CH

2008 - 2016

Chair of VLSI in EEMCS faculty, Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL

2005

Visiting professor, Stanford University, US

2002 - 2008

Assistant Professor, EPF Lausanne, CH

2000 - 2002

Chief Architect, Canesta Inc., Santa Clara, US

1995 - 2000

Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, US

2023

IISS Pioneering Achievement Award

2021

Best European Paper Award, ISSCC, San Francisco, US

2019

Best Academic Group in Europe, Image Sensor Europe, London, U.K.

2018

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Photonics Society

2017

Fellow of the IEEE, Washington, DC, US

2016

Innovation Village Award, SPIE Europe, Brussels, BE

2015

Fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft

2012

Distinguished scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech

2012

Innovation Village Award, SPIE Europe, Brussels, BE

2007

SWERC Medal

2002

One of Time Magazine’s 2002 Best inventions

2002 - now

12+ best paper awards in international conferences