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Kevin T Kornegay

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Motorola Foundation Professor; Associate Professor
Electronic Design and Applications, and Microelectronics/Microsystems

Kevin T Kornegay
Kevin T Kornegay

Kevin Kornegay received his B.E.E. from Pratt Institute in 1985 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1990 and 1992, respectively. In the early part of his career, he was employed in industrial research positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. and at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. From August 1994 through December 1997, he was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. In 1997, Professor Kornegay was the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor in the EECS department at MIT.

From January 1998 through December 2005, Professor Kornegay was on the faculty in the School of ECE at Cornell University, where he led the Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory and was the faculty advisor to the 2003 World Champion CUAUV team and to the Cornell chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. In 2006, Professor Kornegay joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech as the Motorola Foundation Professor, where he is involved with the Georgia Electronic Design Center. In addition, he currently serves on the technical program committees of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, and the International Conference on Circuits and Systems.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

  • Mixed-signal IC design
  • RFIC design
  • MMW IC design
  • Broadband data communication systems

Distinctions

  • 1996 NSF CAREER Award
  • 1996 National Semiconductor Faculty Development Award
  • 2001-2005, IBM Faculty Award
  • 2002 Black Engineer of the Year Award in Higher Education
  • 2004 Cornell University Provost Award for Distinguished Scholarship
  • 2005 Janice A. Lumpkin Educator of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers