Speakers

Dr. Daniel Friedman

Daniel Friedman is currently a Distinguished Research Scientist and Senior Manager of the Communication Circuits and Systems department, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA; he is also an IEEE Fellow. He received his doctorate from Harvard University and then subsequently completed post-doctoral work at Harvard and consulting work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. At IBM, he initially developed field-powered RFID tags before turning to high data rate wireline and wireless communication. His current research interests include high-speed I/O design, phase-locked-loop (PLL) design, millimeter-wave (mmWave) circuits and systems, accelerator designs, and circuit/system approaches to enabling new computing paradigms, the latter including cryogenic electronics for use in quantum computing systems. He holds more than 90 patents and has authored or coauthored more than 75 publications. He has served on the technical program committees of BCTM and ISSCC; he currently serves as the ISSCC Short Course chair, as an Associate Editor of the JSSC, and as the IEEE SSCS Vice President of Membership.