Website of
Eric R. Fossum
Born and raised in
Connecticut, he attended public school in Simsbury and spent Saturdays at the
Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon. He received his B.S. in Physics and
Engineering from Trinity College in Hartford and the Ph.D. in Engineering and
Applied Science from Yale University in New Haven. He was a member of
Columbia University’s Electrical Engineering faculty and then joined the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he
managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced
development. While at JPL, he invented the intra-pixel charge transfer CMOS
active-pixel-sensor camera-on-a-chip technology and led its development and
subsequent transfer of the technology to US industry. Nearly all the six (6)
billion CMOS cameras made each year use the intra-pixel charge transfer
invention. Dr. Fossum co-founded Photobit Corporation to commercialize the
technology and served in several top management roles including Chairman and
CEO. Photobit was acquired by Micron Technology Inc. He was Chairman and CEO
of Siimpel Corporation developing MEMS-based camera modules with autofocus
and shutter functions for cell phones. He was a consultant with Samsung
Electronics working on 3D image sensors and strategic issues for several
years before joining Dartmouth. He co-founded Gigajot Technology Inc. with
his former Dartmouth PhD students to commercialize the photon-counting Quanta
Image Sensor (QIS) technology and served as Chairman.
Dr. Fossum has published over 330 technical papers and holds over
180 US patents. He co-founded the International Image Sensor Society (IISS),
was its first President and Chaired the IISS Board of Directors. He is a Life
Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
a Fellow member of Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA), and
a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He volunteers for the IISS Governance Advisory Committee, the
NIHF Selection Committee and Selection Board, the NAE Committee on Membership
and the Board of Trustees for the Talcott Mountain Science Center and
Academy. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, the Board
of Directors of the National Academy of Inventors, as an AAAS-Lemelson
Invention Ambassador, on the Leadership Council of the Yale University School
of Engineering and Applied Science, the Peer Selection Committee for the NAE,
the Fellow Selection Committee of the NAI, He also actively supports Camp
Invention and the Collegiate Inventors Competition, two programs operated by
NIHF. For relaxation, he and his wife operate a hobby farm in New Hampshire. |
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