Biographical Sketch


Dr. Stuart Kleinfelder, Ph.D.

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor, Physics and Astronomy (joint appointment)

Fellow, IEEE


Engineering Hall 4416

University of California

Irvine, CA 92697-2625

Phone: 949-824-9430

Email: stuartk -at- uci.edu


Dr. Kleinfelder earned the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and the M.S. degree from U.C. Berkeley. He has 30 years of R&D experience with the University of California. Dr. Kleinfelder conducts multi-disciplinary research in integrated sensors and systems spanning infrared, visual, X-ray and charged-particle imaging. Applications have included such diverse scientific and commercial applications as general digital imaging technologies, sensors and instrumentation for electron-microscopy, astrophysics, high-energy physics, nuclear science, optical storage, X-ray crystallography and bio-sciences. He has authored and co-authored over 140 papers and is an award-winning researcher and teacher.


Education:


  1. •Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2001. Dissertation: "High-Speed CMOS Digital Pixel Sensors."

  2. •M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Thesis: "A Multi-Gigahertz Analog Transient Waveform Recorder Integrated Circuit."

  3. •B.S. in Computer Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1984.

  4. •Graduate of Stuyvesant High School, New York City.


Positions and Experience:


  1. •2013 - Present: Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.C. Irvine.

  2. •2007 - 2013: Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.C. Irvine.

  3. •2001 - 2007: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.C. Irvine.

  4. •1986 - 2001: Staff Scientist, Staff Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  5. •1997 - 2001: Research Assistant, Stanford University.

  6. •1984 - 1986: Technical Specialist, Physics Department, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook.

  7. •Extensive community service with the California Institute of Technology, Goddard Space Flight Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, and many others.

  8. •Expert witness in the fields of image sensors and other VLSI systems.

  9. •A veteran of over 100 fabricated mixed analog/digital VLSI circuit designs.


Miscellaneous awards, etc.:


  1. •Fellow, IEEE, “For contributions to sensors and instrumentation for high-speed imaging
    applications.”

  2. •IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2009 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award “For pioneering contributions to the development of monolithic sensors and instrumentation for Nuclear Science, Particle Physics, Particle Astrophysics and Radiation Imaging.”

  3. •Fariborz Maseeh “Best Faculty Teacher Award,” 2005.

  4. •Division of Undergraduate Education’s “Teaching Innovator of the Year” award, 2003.

  5. •The work in paper C35, presented and published at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, was designated one of “70 outstanding ideas spanning 50 years of solid-state circuits history” and one of ten best in the field of image sensors.

  6. •R&D-100 Award, 1991 (then IR-100), for the 2 GHz MTD multi-channel time-to-digital converter circuit.