Yusuf Leblebici - Biography#

Yusuf Leblebici received the BSc and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL, USA, in 1990.

Between 1991 and 2000, he worked as a faculty member at UIUC, at Istanbul Technical University, and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where he established and directed the VLSI Design Laboratory. From 1999 to 2002, he also served as the Microelectronics Program Coordinator at Sabancı University.

In 2002, Yusuf Leblebici became a Chair Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Director of the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory. He and coworkers achieved important and relevant results in various domains of electronics, including, but not limited to, analog to digital conversion, low-power electronic design, new electronic devices and sensors and neuromorphic computing. Prof. Leblebici was the key instructor for digital electronics, providing a full network of teaching services to the university as well as authoring important textbooks.

In November 2018, he was appointed as President of Sabanci University. He has been instrumental in increasing the visibility of the university, in attracting international talent, and in fostering international connections. In December 2022 he was reappointed as President.

His research interests include design of high-speed CMOS digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, computer-aided design of VLSI systems, intelligent sensor interfaces, modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, and VLSI reliability analysis.

Yusuf Leblebici has graduated 58 PhD students and more than 100 MSc students so far. He is the coauthor of seven books (including two internationally acclaimed textbooks), as well as more than 400 scientific articles published in various journals and conferences.