James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and is the founding director of the Nanotechnology Research Center. He has been the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor of Microsystems at Georgia Institute of Technology since 1993.
Professor Meindl was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., in 1958, 1956, and 1955, respectively, in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon University). Prior to his tenure at Georgia Tech, he served as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1986 to 1993.
He was with Stanford University from 1967 to 1986 as the John M. Fluke professor of electrical engineering, associate dean for research in the School of Engineering, founding director of the Center for Integrated Systems, director of the Electronics Laboratories and founding director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory.
Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member of National Academy of Engineering
Founding Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 1966-1971
1999 SIA University Research Award
1997 Hamerschlag Distinguished Alumnus Award, Carnegie Mellon University
1991 Benjamin Garver Lamme Medal from ASEE
1990 IEEE Education Medal "for establishment of a pioneering academic program for the fabrication and application of integrated circuits"
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, National Academy of Engineering and its Academic Advisory Board
1989 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Medal for "contributions to solid-state circuits and solid-state circuit technology"
1988 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Beatrice K. Winner Award
IEEE Electron Devices Society's 1980 J.J. Ebers Award for "contributions to the field of medical electronics and for his research and teaching in solid-state electronics"
Outstanding Paper Awards: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conferences, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
Georgia Institute of Technology 2001 Distinguished Professor Award
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, First Place on 50-Year Anniversary Author Honor Roll, 2003
SRC Aristotle Award, 2004
IITC Outstanding Student Paper Award 1999, 2005, 2006
