Eby Friedman
1957- Fulbright Scholar, IEEE Fellow, electrical engineer
Eby G. Friedman is an electrical engineer, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. Friedman is also a visiting professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Early life and education
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1957, he earned an electrical engineering baccalaureate degree from Lafayette College in 1979, a master's degree (1981) and a doctoral degree (1989) from the University of California, Irvine, also in electrical engineering. Friedman graduated from Henry Snyder High School in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1975. Friedman married his wife Laurie in 1984, and they have two sons.
Career
Friedman's research interests include integrated circuits, VLSI design and analysis, clock synchronization, power delivery, 3-D integration, superconductive single flux quantum circuits, and mixed-signal circuits.
His career began in the Netherlands in 1978, working at Philips Gloeilampen Fabreiken on designing bipolar differential amplifiers. From 1979 to 1991 he worked at Hughes Aircraft Company, developing a large variety of integrated circuits for US military and commercial applications. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester in 1991.
Friedman became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and a Fulbright Scholar (at the Technion in Israel) in 2001.
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