David Vallancourt
SENIOR LECTURER IN THE DISCIPLINE OF CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
1330 S.W. Mudd
Mail Code: 4712
David Vallancourt is Senior Lecturer in Circuits and Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He received the BS (1981), MS (1983), and PhD (1987) degrees from Columbia, and was an Assistant Professor at Columbia Engineering until joining Bell Labs in 1992. Dr. Vallancourt’s focus at Bell Labs and subsequent positions at Texas Instruments, Vitesse Semiconductor, and PMC-Sierra was analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design for communications applications, for which he was awarded a dozen patents. In 2005 Dr. Vallancourt returned to Columbia where he teaches introductory courses in electrical engineering for engineers and for non-engineers, electronics, and laboratory courses including the senior “capstone” project lab. He created and teaches The Art of Engineering (AoE) course, the Columbia Engineering-wide introduction to engineering for all first year students. Dr. Vallancourt has received the Engineering School Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award and Columbia University’s Presidential Teaching Award.
Research Areas
Analog integrated circuits, analog and digital signal processing
Publications
D. Vallancourt and Y.P. Tsividis, "A fully programmable sampled-data analog CMOS filter with transfer function coefficients determined by timing," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-22, no.6, pp. 1022-1030, December 1987.
D. Vallancourt and Y.P. Tsividis, "Timing-controlled fully programmable analog signal processors using switched continuous-time filters," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. CAS-35, no. 8, pp. 947-954, August 1988.
S. Daubert, D. Vallancourt, and Y.P. Tsividis, "Current copier cells," Electronics Letters, vol. 24, no. 25, pp. 1560-1562, Dec. 8, 1988.
D. Vallancourt, S.J. Daubert, Chapter 14: Applications of Current-Copier Circuits, in Analog IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach, Toumazou, Lidgey, and Haigh (eds.), Peter Peregrinus Ltd., London, U.K., 1990.
S.J. Daubert and D. Vallancourt, "A Transistor-only current mode sigma delta modulator," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol 27, no. 5, pp. 821-830, May 1992.
P. Ju and D. Vallancourt, "Quantization noise reduction in multibit oversampling sigma delta A/D converters", Electronics Letters, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 1162-1164, 4 June 1992.
Honors & Awards
Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award (2013)
Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (2007, 2013)
Professional Experience
Hewlett-Packard
AT&T Microelectronics
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Analog Devices
Texas Instruments
Vitesse Semiconductor
PMC-Sierra
Research Experience
Columbia University
AT&T Bell Laboratories