Dr. Meindl is the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Previously he served from 1986 to 1993 as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

From 1967 through 1986 he was with Stanford University where he was the John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering, Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering, Director of the Center for Integrated Systems, Director of the Electronics Laboratories, and founding Director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory.

He is a co-founder of Telesensory Systems, Inc., a principal manufacturer of electronic reading aids for the blind, and served as a member of the Board from 1971 through 1984.

From 1965 through 1967 he was Director of the Integrated Electronics Division at the Fort Monmouth, New Jersey U.S. Army Electronics Laboratories.

He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1955, 1956 and 1958 respectively.

He is the author of a book on Micropower Circuits and over 300 technical papers on ultra large scale integration, integrated electronics, and medical electronics, and editor of a book, "Brief Lessons in High Technology", which elucidates the most important economic event of our lives, the emergence of the information society.

Dr. Meindl is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and its Academic Advisory Board. Dr. Meindl received the 1991 Benjamin Garver Lamme Medal from ASEE. He was the recipient of the 1990 IEEE Education Medal "for establishment of a pioneering academic program for the fabrication and application of integrated circuits" and the recipient of the 1989 IEEE Solid-state Circuits Medal for contributions to solid-state circuits and solid-state circuit technology.

At the 1988 IEEE International Solid-state Circuits Conference, he received the Beatrice K. Winner Award. In 1980 he was the recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices Society's J.J. Ebers Award for his contributions to the field of medical electronics and for his research and teaching in solid-state electronics.

From 1970 through 1978 Dr. Meindl and his students received five outstanding paper awards at IEEE International Solid-state Circuits Conferences, along with one received at the 1985 IEEE VLSI Multi-level Interconnections Conference.

His major contributions have been a) new medical instruments enabled by custom integrated electronics, b) projections and codification of the hierarchy of physical limits on integrated electronics, and c) leadership in creation of academic environments promoting high quality teaching and research.