Biography: Ken Shepard

Electrical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University

Ken Shepard received the B.S.E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988 and 1992, respectively.

From 1992 to 1997, he was a Research Staff Member and Manager with the VLSI Design Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he was responsible for the design methodology for IBM’s G4 S/390 microprocessors. Since 1997, he has been with Columbia University, New York, where he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He also was Chief Technology Officer of CadMOS Design Technology, San Jose, CA, until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2001. His current research interests include biophysical applications of CMOS ICs, power management circuits, and carbon-based electronics.

Dr. Shepard was Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the 2002 and 2003 International Conference on Computer Design, respectively. He has served on the Program Committees for IEDM, ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, ICCAD,DAC, ISCAS, ISQED, GLS-VLSI, TAU, and ICCD. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.