Bio
James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center, and 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.

Distinctions

• 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor
• 2004 Aristotle Award
• Life-Fellow, IEEE
• 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