Ian O’Connor

IAN O'CONNOR (S'95-M'98-SM'07) received the European MSc degree in electronics engineering from the University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom, in 1992, the PhD degree in electronics from the University of Lille, Lille, France, in 1997, and the professoral dissertation (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from École Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France, in 2005. From 1993 to 1997, he was a research and teaching assistant with the Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord, Lille, France, and from 1997 to 1998, he was a senior CAD engineer with Philips Semiconductors, Southampton, United Kingdom. He joined École Centrale de Lyon in 1998 as an associate professor, where he is a professor for Heterogeneous and Nanoelectronics Systems Design and the head of the Heterogeneous Systems Design group at the Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology. Since 2008, he also holds a position of an adjunct professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include novel computing architectures based on emerging technologies, associated with methods for design exploration. He has authored or coauthored around 200 book chapters, journal publications, conference papers, and patents and has presented invited papers at several major conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE.