Andrew Karanicolas

Dr. Karanicolas is the Vice President of Integrated Circuit Design at Crocus Technology. Leads all analog, mixed-signal, and high-precision integrated circuit architecture, engineering, and design in CMOS and TMR process technologies. Previously, Dr. Karanicolas held key leadership and technical positions at Infinera, Maxim Integrated, and Level One Communications (acquired by Intel) as well as at venture capital-funded semiconductor start-up companies including early IoT investments in integrated transceivers and software. He started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories. With more than twenty-five years of semiconductor industry experience, Dr. Karanicolas is a recognized expert in analog, mixed-signal, high-precision, and high-speed integrated circuit and photonics architecture, engineering, and design with Si CMOS/BiCMOS/Bipolar and III-V HBT/pHEMT process technologies. Key publications and patents by Dr. Karanicolas include pioneering research in digital self-calibration techniques for high-speed and high-resolution data converters, widely used in communications, instrumentation, and medical applications. He led the initial wave of integration of radio architectures to low-cost CMOS process technologies with research in low-power CMOS broad-band integrated circuit design techniques. Dr. Karanicolas received his Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. degrees in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.