Eric Fossum
Eric R. Fossum (* 1957 in Simsbury , Connecticut ) is an American electrical engineer who is considered the inventor of the Active Pixel Sensor (APS).
Fossum graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1979 and a PhD in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1984 . He then went to Columbia University until 1990 , where he worked on Charged Coupled Devices (CCDs). From 1990 he was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , where he led research on image sensors. As part of his work on the miniaturization of CCDs for space missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he developed active pixel sensors or CMOS cameras there. The technology later found widespread use in digital cameras, medical technology, PC cameras and cell phone cameras. To further develop APS, he founded the company Photobit in 1995, which was sold to Micron Technology in 2001. In 2003 he left Micron and became CEO of SiWave Inc. (later renamed Siimpel), which develops microsystem technology for cell phones. Fossum was a consultant to Samsung from 2008 to 2013.
He has taught as a professor at the University of Southern California and Dartmouth College , where he has been a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering since 2010.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011 and holds over 150 US patents. Fossum is a Fellow of the IEEE and received its Andrew S. Grove Award in 2009 and the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University in 2014. In 1986 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 1996 the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. In 2003 he received the Progress Medal of the Photographic Society of America and in 2004 that of the Royal Photographic Society, in 2017 he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering , in 2020 the Edwin H. Land Medal of the Optical Society of America . He was one of the founders of the International Image Sensor Society and was its president. Fossum is a member of the National Academy of Engineering .
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| SURNAME | Fossum, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fossum, Eric R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simsbury , Connecticut |