Edoardo Charbon (born 1964 in
Sorengo,
Switzerland) is a Swiss electrical engineer. He is a professor of quantum engineering at
EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Laboratory of Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA) at the School of Engineering.[1][2][3]
In 2002, Charbon joined the faculty of EPFL, where he has since 2015 been full professor of electrical engineering as well as the head of Laboratory of Advanced Quantum Architecture at
EPFL's School of Engineering.[2][3]
Charbon's research is focused on the multi-disciplinary boundaries between physics and electrical engineering, and is investeted both in ground research as well as the development of hardware and software systems.[7] He investigates and develops
cryogenic electronics,[8] near and short wave infrared single photon avalanche devices (SPAD),[9][10] light detecting and ranging (
LIDAR) applications,[11] microscopy, positron emission tomography (PET) components,[12] quantum random number generators (QRNG),[13] and
super conducting devices.[14]
Charbon lead and participated in a row of international and interdisciplinary research projects such as Megaframe (2006-2009),[15] SPADNet (2010-2014),[16] EndoTOFPET-US (2011-2015),[17] Polis (2014-2018),[18] MOS-QUITO (2016-2019),[19] Qu3D (2019-2022),[20] SuperMaMa (2020-2022).[21]
He is (co-)author of over 400 papers and two books,[22] and he holds 23 patents.[23]
He is the co-recipient of the best European paper award, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2021.
He is the recipient of the Venture Kick Awards in 2014 and 2020.[30][31]
He is the recipient of the Europe's Best Academic Research Team Award in 2019 and the co-recipient of the best paper award, International Image Sensor Society (with Preethi Padmanabhan) in the same year.
He is the co-recipient of the best paper award, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (with Andrada Muntean in 2018 and with Francesco Gramuglia in 2020) and Physics and Applications of Superconducting Nanowire SPDs Conference (with Simone Frasca) in 2018.
He is the co-recipient of the best paper award, IEEE IWASI (with Fabio Sebastiano and Andrei Vladimirescu) in 2017.
He is a distinguished lecturer of the
IEEE Photonics Society, a fellow of the
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),[32] and a member of the Electron Devices Society (EDS), QuTech,[33] and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (KIND).[34]
He is the founder of several start-up companies such as Fastree3D,[35] and Pi Imaging Technology.[36]
Chang, Henry; Charbon, Edoardo; Choudhury, Umakanta; Felt, Eric; Demir, Alper; Liu, Edward; Malavasi, Enrico; Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto; Vassiliou, Iasson (1997). A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog Integrated Circuits. Springer.
ISBN0792397940.
Richardson, Justin; Walker, Richard; Grant, Lindsay; Stoppa, David; Borghetti, Fausto; Charbon, Edoardo; Gersbach, Marek; Henderson, Robert K. (2009). "A 32×32 50ps resolution 10 bit time to digital converter array in 130nm CMOS for time correlated imaging". 2009 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. pp. 77–80.
doi:
10.1109/CICC.2009.5280890.
ISBN978-1-4244-4071-9.
S2CID2242302.