Tod Dickson

Tod Dickson received dual B.Sc. degrees (Hons.) in electrical and computer engineering and the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2006.

In 2006, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he is currently a Principal Research Scientist. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, where he has been teaching graduate level courses in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design since 2007. His research focuses on the design of high-speed, low-power serial transceivers for electrical and optical links.

Dr. Dickson was a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium from 2007 to 2009. He was a recipient or co-recipient of several best paper awards, including the Best Paper Award for the 2009 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 2009 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Best Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), the Best Invited Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE CICC, and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. From 2017-2023, he served on the CICC TPC where he ciared the Wireline Subcommittee. He was a Guest Editor of the October 2010 Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. From 2018-2023, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters. Since 2024, he has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits. From 2019-2020 and 2024-2025, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He has published more than 50 papers in IEEE journals or conferences. He holds 21 issued U.S. patents.