Benton H. Calhoun

About

Benton H. Calhoun is the Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His research has emphasized energy efficient and sub-threshold circuit design for self-powered, batteryless wireless sensing systems. Starting from fundamental advances in sub-threshold circuits, he has expanded his work to include complete self-powered nodes for Internet of Things (IoT), in-textile computing, and body-worn applications. His research interests include self-powered wireless sensors for the internet of things, batteryless systems, body area sensor networks, sub-microwatt digital circuit design, system-on-chip architecture and circuits for energy constrained applications, system driven embedded hardware/software design, wakeup receivers, energy harvesting-power management units, sub-threshold digital circuits, sub-threshold SRAM, energy efficient communication, power harvesting and delivery circuits, low power mixed signal design, and medical applications for low energy electronics. Dr. Calhoun is a co-author of Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Springer, 2006), author of Design Principles for Digital CMOS Integrated Circuit Design (NTS Press, 2012), and has over 300 peer reviewed publications and 38 issued US patents that contribute to the field of energy efficient circuits and systems for self-powered and energy constrained applications. He served as Campus Director and Technical Thrust Leader in the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST). He co-founded and is CEO at Everactive, Inc., which is selling self-powered, energy harvesting wireless sensing solutions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. 

Education

B.S. ​University of Virginia, 2000

M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002​

Ph.D. ​Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006