Professor William Redman-White Life Fellow IEEE, FIET

Bill Redman-White came to Southampton University after a period in engineering management in Post Office Telecommunications (now BT).  He was one of the very few in the UK to mix a successful academic career with a senior staff position in industry. 

Following 6 years part-time with GEC Research, he spent over 21 years with NXP (and its predecessor, Philips Semiconductors) as an Engineering Fellow, specialising in analogue and RF design, working in Southampton, UK, San Jose, California, and in Caen, France.

Concurrently within the University, he taught Analogue IC design and RF transceiver design for many years, taking the perspective of someone working at the forefront of industrial practise rather than from pure research, an approach much appreciated by successive cohorts of students. 

He also maintained an active research group with projects evenly split between mainstream circuit design (mainly in collaboration with Phlips/NXP) in filters, data converters, RF and wireless power;  and work on device characterisation, particularly modelling and design in more esoteric Silicon on Insulator technologies.  The success in these fields brought both internal and external recognition, with a personal chair in 1998 and being elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2014.

He has been consistently active in publishing and conference organisation in the fields of circuits and devices, with over 120 refereed papers and 20 active patents.  He was associate editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1996 to 2002, and has twice been technical programme chair of the European Solid State Circuits Conference.

He served on the TPC of the world’s premier IC design conference, the International Solid State Circuits Conference from 1999-2013;  being asked to chair the conference's Analog Sub-Committee for 7 years was a particularly significant recognition in such a peer group.  He remains active with the conference in organising educational events.

Since retirement and appointment as Emeritus Professor he has remained active both in academic research and in industry.

Presently he works with HiLight Semiconductors on IC design for optical communications as well as undertaking consultancy in design, training and IP cases.  He now lives mostly in New Zealand where he is Honorary Professor at Waikato University, currently working on power management project.

Outside of professional work, he has returned to the activities of his teenage years: motorcycles, steam trains, amateur radio;  together with undertaking long hiking trips in the unpopulated parts of NZ.