Robert W. Brodersen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the EECS Department faculty in 1976. From 1972-1976, he was a member of the Technical Staff, Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments. In addition to teaching, his present research focus is the application of integrated circuits as applied to personal communication systems with emphasis on wireless communications and low power design.

Professor Brodersen received the Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA in 1966; the Engineering and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 1968; and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering from MIT in 1972.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical, Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received numerous awards and honors.

He won conference best paper awards at Eascon (1973), the International Solid-States Circuits Conference (1975) and the European Solid-States Circuits Conference (1978).

In 1979, he received the W.G. Baker Award for the outstanding paper in the IEEE Journals and Transactions. He was co-recipient of the Morris Libermann Award of the IEEE (1983) for "outstanding contributions to an Emerging Technology". He received the best paper award in the Transactions on CAD (1985) and the best tutorial paper of the IEEE Communications Society (1992).

Professor Brodersen was appointed the first holder of the John R. Whinnery Chair in the EECS department, University of California, Berkeley, in September 1995. In 1997, he received the distinguished IEEE Solid-States Circuits Award "for contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing systems." On May 28, 1999, Professor Brodersen was formally declared Technologiae Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor of Technology) by the University of Lund, Sweden.

He was the national chair of ISAT Study Group (Information Science and Technology) sponsored by the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C., from 1992-94. He currently serves on several committees associated with the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

He has served on the editorial board or as reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and publications including the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine and Wireless Personal Communications (Kluwer Press).

He is the author or co-author of over 60 journal publications, 120 published conference papers and author, co-author, editor or contributor to 14 books including: Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler, 1992 (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and Low Power Digital CMOS Design, 1995, (Kluwer Academic Publishers). He is he holder of three patents.