Yannis Tsividis is a professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1976. He has made major contributions in the fields of integrated circuit design, signal processing techniques, on-chip analog/hybrid computing, and event-driven continuous-time digital filters. He demonstrated the first fully-integrated MOS operational amplifier in 1976 and proposed widely adopted design techniques for MOS analog circuits. He has authored several influential textbooks and over 40 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received numerous best paper and teaching awards from IEEE.

1. Yannis Tsividis
 Dec. 22nd, 1946
Piraeus, Greece
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 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, USA, 1976,
Advisor: Paul R. Gray.
 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, USA, 1973.
 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA 1972.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dept., Columbia University, New York, NY,
USA. (1970-present)
 https://www.tsividis.ee.columbia.edu/
IEEE Author (1976-present)
(S’71-M’74-SM’81-F’86-LF’12)
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Research Areas:
Integrated Circuit
Design
Signal Processing
Techniques
On-Chip Analog/
Hybrid Computing
Event-Driven,
Continuous-Time
Digital Filters
Electronics
Engineering Education
Orcid
ResearchGate
PhD title: Nonuniform Pulse Code Modulation Encoding
Using Integrated Circuit Techniques.
https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/techreports/ucb/text/ER
L-m-587.pdf

2. He demonstrated the first fully-integrated MOS operational amplifier in
1976, and proposed detailed design techniques for MOS analog circuits,
which were widely adopted and led to the first massively produced mixed-
signal integrated circuits. The software program Switcap, which was
developed by his group, was the standard in the industry and was used in the
design of hundreds of integrated circuits for telecommunications, biomedical
electronics, and consumer electronics. Techniques in integrated analog
filters, which he co-invented, have been in very large volume production
and have been a dominant technique for many years in the implementation of
high-speed computer hard disc drives and other equipment. At the device
level, benchmarks proposed by him and his group for testing advanced MOS
device models have been widely used and have influenced the state of the art
in MOS transistor modeling.
Professor Tsividis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
a Fellow of IEEE. He has received the 1984 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for
the best IEEE publication, and is recipient or co-recipient of best paper
awards from the European Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1986, the IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2003, and the IEEE Circuits
and Systems Society (Darlington Award, 1987; Guillemin-Cauer Award, 1998
and 2008). He has received Columbia’s Presidential Award for Outstanding
Teaching in 2003, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2005, and the
IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award in 2010. He has named
Professor Honoris Causa by the University of Patras, Greece, in 2012, and
received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of
Minnesota in 2013. He received the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in
2007.

4. Yannis Tsividis, and Colin
McAndrew. Operation and
Modeling of the MOS Transistor.
3rd edition, Oxford Univ. Press,
2011.
Y. Tsividis, A First Lab in
Circuits and Electronics, John
Wiley and Sons, New York,
2002.
Yannis Tsividis, Operation and
Modeling of the MOS Transistor.
2nd edition, Oxford Univ. Press,
1999.
His book, “Operation and
Modeling of the MOS
Transistor,” is a standard
reference for modeling engineers
and circuit designers alike.

5. S. Pavan and Y. Tsividis, High
Frequency Continuous Time
Filters in Digital CMOS
Processes, Kluwer, Boston,
2000.
S. Chatterjee, K. P. Pun, N.
Stanic, Y. Tsividis, and P. Kinget,
Analog Circuit Design Techniques
at 0.5 V, Springer, New York,
2007.
Y. Tsividis, Mixed Analog-Digital
VLSI Devices and Technology: An
Introduction, McGraw-Hill, New
York, 1996; World Scientific,
2002.

6. He is Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
He has worked at Motorola Semiconductor and AT&T Bell
Laboratories, and has taught at the University of California
at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
the National Technical University of Athens.

9. N. Guo, Y. Huang, T. Mai, S. Patil, C. Cao, M. Seok, S. Sethumadhavan, and Y. Tsividis, "Energy-
Efficient Hybrid Analog/Digital Approximate Computation in Continuous Time", IEEE Journal of Solid-
State Circuits, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1514-1524, July 2016.
Y. Chen, X. Zhang, Y. Lian, R. Manohar, and Y. Tsividis, “A Continuous-Time Digital IIR Filter with
Signal-Derived Timing and Fully Agile Power Consumption”, accepted for publication, IEEE Journal of
Solid-State Circuits.

10. J.E. Franca and Y. Tsividis, Eds.,
Design of Analog-Digital VLSI
Circuits for Telecommunications
and Signal Processing, Prentice-
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1994.
Y. P. Tsividis and J. O.
Voorman, Eds., Integrated
Continuous-Time Filters:
Principles, Design, and
Applications, IEEE Press,
Piscataway, NJ, 1993.
Y. Tsividis and P. Antognetti, Eds.,
Design of MOS VLSI Circuits for
Telecommunications, Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, 1985.

12. He is the Charles Batchelor Memorial
Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Columbia University, New York, NY. He
has made major contributions to the field
of solid-state circuits.
He has around
40 patents.

13. Ph.D. students Ph.D. students
Mihai Banu
1983 Ph.D. (Theory and design
of linear integrated MOSFET-
capacitor continuous-time filters)
1987 Ph.D. (Programmable
analog integrated signal
processors with transfer functions
determined by timing)
1988 Ph.D. (Realization of
lumped and distributed integrated
continuous-time filters)
David Vallancourt John Khoury
1999 Ph.D. (High frequency
continuous time filters in digital
CMOS processes)
Shanthi Pavan
https://engineering.columbia.
edu/files/seas/content/faculty-
cv/tsividis_yannis_extended_
cv.pdf