Laurent Blanquart has over 20 years of experience in system engineering, ASIC and SoC design, with particular emphasis on low-noise and low-power sensor development. At AltaSens, Blanquart is Vice President of Engineering. His responsibilities include managing programs, analog and digital design, and characterization. Prior to joining AltaSens, he was employed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working in the field of ultra low power analog integrated circuit design, mainly for pixel detectors in high-energy physics experiments. He started his research career at Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France. Blanquart's technical interests and expertise include very low power analog design, CMOS imager design, and large charged-particle pixel array design. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers, holds 2 patents, and has contributed to numerous international conference presentations. He has also given lectures in advanced pixel IC analog design at several research institutes and at the IEEE/NSS symposium.Blanquart received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute Superior d'Electronique du Nord. |