My name is J Jacob Wikner and I am currently an associate Professor (“universitetslektor”) in the Electronics Systems group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. (Once upon a time I needed the extra “J” in front of Jacob, since at Ericsson – where I once worked – there were other Jacob Wikner’s).
This blog is mainly created to spread information to students attending courses at the University, to students doing their final-year project at the department, and Ph.D. students at the department. But it is also a good place to put general thoughts and comments to the masses regarding my research, etc.
My calendar is available here.
A micro-CV
I was born in 1973 and is grown up with (but not fed up with!) 8-bit music. See for example tragedy! and then:
- M.Sc. at Linköping University, 1991-1996 in Computer Science and Engineering
- Auslandstudium, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutschland, 1994-1995
- Ph.D. student at Linköping University 1996-2001 in Electronics Systems
- Research Engineer, Ericsson Components/Ericsson Microelectronics 1999-2002
- Senior Design Engineer, Infineon Technologies 2002-2005
- Senior Analog Design Engineer, Sicon Semiconductor 2005-2009
- Visiting Associate Professor, Linköping University, 2009-2011
- Associate Professor, Linköping University, 2011-present
A mini-CV
Dr. J Jacob Wikner received his M.Sc. in computer science and engineering from Linköping University, Sweden, in 1996. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 on the topic ”Studies on CMOS Digital-to-Analog Converters” from the electronics systems group, at the department of electrical engineering, Linköping University. During 2001, he spent some part-time, post-doctoral time at the Imperial College, London, UK.
Between 1999 and 2002 Wikner worked as a research engineer at the microelectronics research center (MERC) at Ericsson Microelectronics. Between 2003 and 2005 he was with Infineon Technologies (who acquired Ericsson Microelectronics in 2003) as a senior analog design engineer. In 2005 Wikner joined Sicon Semiconductor in Linköping as a senior design engineer and chip architect. His field of work has spanned over image sensors, transceivers for WLAN, DSL, DECT, WCDMA, and high speed video digitizers for the consumer market.
Since August 2009, Wikner is again with the electronics systems group at the department of electrical engineering, Linköping University; now as a visiting associate professor (gästlektor). His research interests are biologically inspired architectures (BIAs), high-speed A/D and D/A converters, and general analog and mixed-signal design topics. He currently supervises three Ph.D. students, 20 master student’s projects, and is course-responsible for five courses in mixed-signal integrated circuit design.
Wikner holds six patents, has published some 30 journal and conference papers, and co-authored the book CMOS Data Converters for Telecommunication. He is a co-founder of one research-based company, Cognicatus AB, and a design-services company, AnaCatum Design AB, both in Linköping.
A long CV
You can find a more lengthy CV here:
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- You can find a list (not updated that frequently!) of my references here:j_jacob_wikner_refs
DISCLAIMER: The contents under these pages are not officially supported by the Linköping University. I do not claim that I will be adding comments that are radical and/or contradictive to the official policy of the University, I just want to highlight the fact that the University cannot be held responsible for the contents of these pages.
