L. Blanquart

Laurent Blanquart (M'01) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1989 from Institut Superieur d'Electronique du Nord (ISEN). He is Executive Director at AltaSens, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, and is a lead developer of key analog circuit blocks. He was with Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), France, from 1991 to 2001, working in the field of ultra-low-power analog integrated circuits design, mainly for pixel detectors in high-energy physics experiments. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Principal Sensor Designer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was in charge of designing the pixel-tracking detector electronics for the ATLAS experiment (CERN), and where he was honored with spot recognition awards for several IC design innovations. His technical interests and expertise include very low-power analog design, CMOS imager design, and large charged-particle pixel array design. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 papers, holds two patents, and has contributed to numerous international conference presentations. He has given lectures in advanced pixel IC analog design at several research institutes and at the IEEE/NSS Symposium.