Gael Pillonnet

Gaël Pillonnet (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master's degree in electrical engineering from CPE Lyon, France, in 2004, and the Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees from INSA Lyon, France, in 2007 and 2016, respectively. Following an early experience as Analog Designer in STMicroelectronics in 2008, he joined the University of Lyon, Lyon, France, as an Associate Professor. During the 2011–2012 academic year, he held a Visiting Researcher position with the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Since 2013, he has been the CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France, involved in developing various projects in design technology co-optimization. During the 2022–2023 academic year, he joins Energy-Efficient Microsystems Group, UCSD as a Visiting Researcher. He is currently a Scientific Advisor for the Silicon Component Division, CEA-Leti. With more than 100 peer-reviewed papers to his credit, including contributions to prestigious conferences such as ISSCC, VLSI, ISCAS, and top-tier journals like JSSC and TPEL, he has also been actively involved in technical program committees for conferences like ISSCC and ESSCIRC. His research interests include power-conversion-oriented circuits, encompassing DC-DC converters, audio amplifiers, adiabatic logics, electromechanical transducers, and harvesting electrical interfaces. He contributes to device/circuit design enablement for emerging technologies such as RRAM, Si-qubit, solid-state energy storage, and MEMS sensors.