Bio
Ajith Amerasekera is a TI Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He was director of TI’s Kilby Labs, and now has responsibility for product development engineering in TI’s High Performance Analog business. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1986, he worked at Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on the first submicron semiconductor development. In 1991, he joined Texas Instruments, Dallas, working in the VLSI Design Labs on circuit and device modeling of high-current effects in devices and circuits. Since 1999, he has been working on circuit design and IP development for TI’s CMOS technologies. Before taking up the role at the Kilby Labs, Amerasekera was Chief Technical Officer for TI’s ASIC Business Unit and director of ASIC Technology Strategy. He has 30 issued patents, and has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conferences, as well as 4 books on Integrated Circuits. Ajith has served on the technical program committees of a number of international conferences including the VLSI Symposium on Circuits, the ISSCC, and the IEDM.