Circuits and Systems for Communications

Gerald Sobelman University of Minnesota 200 Union Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 U.S.A. Tel: +1 612-625-8041 Fax: +1 612-625-4583 Email: sobelman@ece.umn.edu

Gerald E. Sobelman received a B.S. in physics, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. Subsequently, he became a Research Associate at The Rockefeller University, where he worked on computational problems in theoretical physics. He then joined Sperry Corporation as a Senior Electrical Engineer, where he worked in the area of device modeling for circuit simulation. He was later appointed Manager of MOS Device Development, and directed the effort to design and optimize devices for scaled CMOS technologies. He became a Senior Technical Consultant in the Advanced ECAD department of Control Data Corporation and he received the Technical Excellence award from CDC for his research on silicon compilation. He is now a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are in the areas of circuit design for applications in communications, signal processing, coding and cryptography. He is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Computer Engineering.