About the Authors

Prof. David Cumming is Head of the School of Engineering and the Professor of Electronic Systems at the University of Glasgow. He completed his B. Eng in EEE at Glasgow University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in microelectronics at Cambridge University in 1993. He subsequently worked as a VLSI design engineer with STMicroelectronics in Bristol, UK, and carried out post-doctoral research at Glasgow University. He was a lecturer at the University of Canterbury, NZ, and has been at Glasgow University since 1999. His research interests are focused on semiconductor devices and microsystems for sensing applications. He has published over 300 papers on sensor and photonic technologies, mainly with an emphasis on integration of technologies. He was a founder of medical diagnostics company Mode DX and his research on CMOS ion sensor arrays enabled the development of the Ion Torrent gene sequencing system. He has held 1851 and EPSRC research fellowships, a Chinese Academy of Science Distinguished Fellowship, a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, and is FRSE, FREng, FIEEE. He has served on the technical programme committees for the EIPBN, MNE and IEEE IWASI conferences, and will be the Plenary Session Chair for ISCAS 2023 in Monterey California.