Meritförteckning

Peter Nilsson is a Full Professor in Electronic Design (elektronikkonstruktion). He was born in Borlänge, Sweden on December 9, 1958 and has grown up in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden. Currently, he is active as a Professor in the Digital ASIC group at Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University. Peter’s main interest is in the field of silicon implementation of digital ASICs related to the communication area. Since 1996 Peter has supervised 4 Ph.D. students to the doctoral degree, one to licentiate degree, and has 4 on the way. He have supervised and/or examined around 100 students at Master’s thesis level, both national and international.  Peter have authored or co-authored around 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.  He has been active in two national research programs. The first was the “Socware Research & Education” program where he was the program manager as well as the person authorized to sign 2000-2005. He was also one of the area managers in the SSF Integrated Electronics (INTELECT) program, 1999-2002.  

Peter Nilsson’s main teaching activity is in digital electronics with focus on digital IC-design on Master’s level. He developed the course, Digital IC-Design, and has taught it 12 times since 1998 where one was in industry and one in advanced form as a Ph.D. student course. He is also active in the other courses in the Digital ASIC track at the department. On national level, as the program manager in Socware Research & Education, he was responsible for the educational activities within the program. The Socware program started Master’s education in System-on-Chip design at three places in Sweden, namely Kista, Linköping, and Lund. In February 1988,

Peter reached the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University under supervision of Adjunct Professor Sven Mattisson. The thesis was entitled “Testkretsar i CMOS”. In May 1992, he reached the degree Licentiate of Engineering and in May 1996, the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering both with the subject Applied Electronics. Both degrees were awarded at Department of Applied Electronics, LTH, Lund University and the advisor was Adjunct Professor Mats Torkelson. The Licentiate thesis was entitled “A CMOS VLSI Cell Library for Digital Signal Processing” and the doctoral thesis was entitled “Custom Designed Digital Signal Processors Using Bit-Serial Arithmetic”. After the Ph.D. degree, Peter begun as an Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Electronics (now Department of Electrical and Information Technology), Lund University, and in November 1997 he became Associate Professor at the same department, which also is the present position. In December 2003, the degree Docent was awarded and in July 2008 he was appointed the Full Professor degree. 

Professional activities

2008    Full Professor in Electronic Design (elektronikkonstruktion),
            Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University (LU)
2003    Docent, Department of Electroscience, LU
1996    Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Applied Electronics, LU
1993    Licentiate of Engineering, Applied Electronics, LU
1988    Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, LU

Appointments      

2011 Technical Program Chair for the 2011 the 20th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, (ECCTD'2011)
2003-Present Member of the VLSI Systems and Applications Technical Committee in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
2003-Present Program committee member for the International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)
2003-Present Manager (Utbildningsföreståndare) for the International Master’s program in System-on-Chip, LU
2002-Present Member of the VLSI Systems Track Technical Program committee on International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2009 Topic Program Committee (TPC) member for Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, (DATE’10)
2008 Program Committee Member for the 2008 International conference on Signals, Circuits & Systems (SCS’08)
2008 Chair of the “Digital Signal Processing & Multimedia” Track for the 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2008)
2007 Topic Program Committee (TPC) member for Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, (DATE’08)
2006 Member of the technical program committee for the 24th Norchip Conference, Linköping, Sweden, November 20-21, 2006.
2004-2006 Associate editor in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part-I (TCAS-I)2001-2005 General Chairman of the Swedish System-on-Chip Conference, SSoCC
2000-2005 Program manager and the person authorized to sign for the Socware Research & Education program, with a budget at 100 million SEK
2000-2006 Member of department board, Department of Electroscience
1999-2002 Area manager in the Integrated Electronics, INTELECT, program 

Graduate Students

Graduated
2007    Fredrik Kristensen, Doctoral degree, Main supervisor
2005    Zhan Guo, Doctoral degree, Main supervisor
2004    Thomas Olsson, Doctoral degree, Main supervisor
2004    Fredrik Kristensen, Licentiate degree, Main supervisor
2003    Pontus Åström, Doctoral degree, De facto supervisor
1999    Stefan Johansson, Licentiate degree, De facto supervisor  

Ongoing
2009    Anil Dey, Main supervisor
2009    Yasser Sherazi, Main supervisor
2006    Johan Löfgren, Main supervisor
2004    Erik Hertz, Main supervisor