Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Brief info
David J. Allstot received the B.S.E.S. from the Univ. of Portland, M.S.E.E. from Oregon State Univ. (OSU), and Ph.D. from Univ. of California, Berkeley (1979).
He has held several academic positions including the Boeing-Egtvedt Chair Professor of Engineering (and Chair of EE) at U Washington from 1999-2012 (2004-07). He was a Visiting Professor of EE at Stanford in 2012 and the MacKay Professor and Executive Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center from 2013-16. From 2017-23, he was a Professor at OSU. He is currently a Distinguished Special Professor of ECE at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Allstot has advised ~70 M.S. and ~45 Ph.D. graduates (23 accepted academic positions) and published ~325 papers. He received the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Portland, in addition to several awards for outstanding teaching, research, and service including the IEEE Baker Award (1980), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Darlington Award (1995, 2010), IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference Beatrice Winner Award (1998), IEEE CASS Desoer (2004), Van Valkenburg (2011), Choma (2018) and Meritorious Service (2019) awards, Semiconductor Research Corp. Aristotle Award (2005), Semiconductor Industries Assoc. University Research Award (2008), and the IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award (2015). He has been active in the IEEE CAS and Solid-State Circuits Societies throughout his career.
He is a Fellow of AAAS, a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.