Background
Cioffi, John M. was born on November 7, 1956.
Cioffi, John M. was born on November 7, 1956.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Illinois, 1978. Master of Science, Stanford University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Edinburgh University, 2010.
Modem designer Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, 1978—1984. Hard disk drive read channel researcher International Business Machines Corporation Research, 1984—1986. Co-founder, chief technical officer, vice president engineering Amati Communication, Inc.
(acquired by Texas Instruments in 1997), 1991—1997. Chief Executive Officer, chairman ASSIA, Inc. (Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Inc.), since 2003.
With Stanford University, 1985—1991, 1993—2009, Hitachi America Professor of Electrical Engineering, 2002—2009, Hitachi Professor America Emeritus of Engineering, Department Electrical Engineering, since 2009. Member United States of America National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, 1998—2003. Board directors ClariPhy Communications, Inc., Teranetics Communications, Inc., AltoBeam, Vector Silicon, Teknovus.
Advisory board member Wavion, Focus Ventures, Quantenna Communications, Inc., Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, SiTune. Speaker in field.
Board trustee Marconi Foundation. Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (associate editor, Transactions on ASSP (Adaptive Filtering) 1985-1987, Josip Juraj Thomson medal 2000, Third Millennium medal 2000, Kobayashi medal 2001, Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2010). Member: Royal Society Engineering (International Fellow), United Kingdom, National Academy of Engineering.
Married Assia Cioffi.