Nance Ericson

M. Nance Ericson received the B.S. degree from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, USA, in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 1993 and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member and the Group Leader of the Sensors and Electronics Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, USA.  In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member with the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and also serves in a similar role with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tennessee Tech University.  His research interests include very low power, mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems, harsh environment electronics including wide bandgap semiconductor based (SiC, GaN) radiation and/or temperature hardened circuits, and monitoring and optimization of printed electronics structures. He has over 140 technical publications and holds 16 patents in the areas of electronics and electronics systems including high-temperature measurement, integrated photo-spectrometers, and implantable sensing methods.  He is the recipient of two R&D100 awards (1999, 2014) and is a Senior Member of IEEE.