Alyssa B. Apsel is an American electrical engineer whose research involves the design and analysis of integrated circuits that combine information from electrical, optical, and radio-frequency channels, including CMOS-based

optoelectronics Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radiati ...

, low-power asynchronous

analog-to-digital converter In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal. An ADC may also provide ...

s as an interface to the

internet of things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

, and implantable radio devices for body area networks. She is the IBM Professor of Engineering and director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

Education and career

Apsel majored in electrical engineering at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as ...

, graduating in 1995. After earning a master's degree at the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

in 1996, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

in 2002. Her dissertation, ''Optoelectronic Receivers in Silicon on Sapphire CMOS: Architecture and Design for Efficient Parallel Interconnects'', was supervised by Andreas Andreou. She joined Cornell University as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in 2002. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008. She became director of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018, and was named the IBM Professor of Engineering in 2023.

Book

Apsel is a coauthor of the book ''Design of Ultra-Low Power Impulse Radios'' (with Xiao Wang and Rajeev Dokania, Springer, 2014).

Recognition

Apsel was a distinguished lecturer of the

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

for 2018–2019. She was named an

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to radio frequency and optical communications circuits and systems".

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