Massimo Rudan was born in Bologna, Italy, on September 7,
1949.
He received a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1973 and a degree in
Physics in 1976, both from the University of Bologna.
He joined the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica
(DEI) of the
University of Bologna in 1975.
From 1978 he has been teaching an annual course of Quantum Electronics
in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna, firstly as
Lecturer and then as Associate Professor.
In 1990, he was appointed Full Professor of Microelectronics at the
University of Bologna.
In 2001 he has been one of the founders of the Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems
(ARCES) of the University of Bologna,
where he leads the research activities on Advanced Device Modeling and Quantum Computation.
M. Rudan is an IEEE Fellow.
Summary of Activities
Early investigations in the field of the analytical modelling of
semiconductor devices.
Since 1983 M. R. has been working in a group involved in
investigations on physics of carrier transport and numerical analysis
of semiconductor devices.
In 1986 he has been a visiting scientist, on a one-year assignment, at
the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown
Heights, NY, studying the discretization techniques for the
higher-order moments of the Boltzmann Transport Equation. He was
again with IBM for shorter periods afterwards,
investigating and implementing impact-ionization models based on the
average energy of the carriers.
Since 1983 M. R. has been involved as Partner representative or Task
leader in a number of successive ESPRIT projects in the
area of CAD for VLSI, and in other Projects
supported by the National Council of Research, IBM, and SGS-Thomson
Microelectronics. The ESPRIT Projects are CVT,
E-833, E-962 (EVEREST), E-2197 (STORM), E-6075
(DESSIS), E-7236/8002/21752 (ADEQUAT),
E-23643 (ESDEM).
M. R. has been, or currently is, Guest Editor of the IEEE
Trans. on Computer-Aided Design, Editor of COMPEL, Editor
of The International Journal of Numerical Modelling, Chairman,
Committee Member, or Organizer, of the SISDEP,
ESSDERC, and IWCE Conferences.
With Prof. H. Baltes of ETH Zürich and Prof. W.
Göpel of Universität Tübingen, M. R. is a recipient
of the 1998 Körber Foundation Award for the Project
Elektronische
Mikronase
für flüchtige organische Verbindungen.
From 1998 he is President of the
Board of Electronics
of the University of Bologna.