Eric R. Fossum

Eric R. Fossum, Ph.D., is professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and director of the Ph.D. Innovation Program. While at Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, he invented the CMOS image sensor used in billions of camera phones, webcams, DSLRs, swallowable pill cameras, dental x-ray sensors, and many other applications. He co-founded and led Photobit to further develop and commercialize the technology which was eventually acquired by Micron. He holds over 150 U.S. patents and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the Space Technology Hall of Fame. He has published over 270 papers, is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and received the IEEE Andrew Grove Award and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. He is a founder and past-president of the International Image Sensor Society, serves on several boards, and is a trustee of Trinity College. He is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.